Well What the heck? I’ve tried everything I know and it won’t play
Posts made by Salt
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RE: YouTube Tutorials?
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YouTube Tutorials?
I’m watching Youtube tutorials and am having some problems getting some of them to play. I watched half of this video last night but now it won’t even start.
Can someone else try it and see if its working?
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FaceTrackNoIR w pointtrack and 3 point cap. How to buffer small movements?
Hi all,
I need some help with my head tracking. I’m all set up with the baseball cap type setup and the FacetrackNoIr software. Its working fine but for one annoying problem.It seems to be reacting to every tiny small movement I make. Is there a way to keep it responsive but to tune down its sensitivity to small movements? I can barely read my instrument panel because its constantly jiggling back and forth.
I’ve tried playing with the EWMA FILTER MK2 settings Min=15 Max=89 Curves=83 and I have my SMOOTHING SAMPLES set to 50 (maxed out). Movement and response is smooth but its response to tiny head movements is causing shaking when I’m trying to keep my head still.
Any advice?
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
FaceTrack NoIr +Microsoft VX-800 with ir filter removed and a floppy disk’s filter on the lens works like a charm…Thx guys for all the info…incredible stability and smoothness+30fps:D
Hitman,
Can you give me a list of the MK2 Filter settings you’re using? Min? Max? Curve? I can’t seem to get a comfortable operation out of it. When I turn my head back forward it tends to want to bounce around. What smoothing samples number are you set at?
I have a microsoft life cam vx-3000 and also removed ir filter w/ floppy disc over lens. I’m assuming its probably close to the same thing as yours. -
RE: FalconBMS not responding to my head motions???
Glad you got it working, Salt. I may be mistaken but I think the majority of non-TrackIR users here favours FTNoIR over Freetrack, so chances are you might get better “support” from the FTNoIR community
All the best, UweI do like the interface much better. Its giving me problems though as i can’t get my curves to save to the any.ini file. Tried making my own “MySettings.ini” but it won’t save any of my settings (curves). Then I tried saving my curves to the default.ini file and it will save my yaw curve but not the pitch up or pitch down.
EDIT: I figured it out. FaceTrackNoIR has to be run in administrator mode. Saves ini files fine now.
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RE: FalconBMS not responding to my head motions???
It is now working using FaceTrackNoIR and the point tracker plug as suggested. In fact, I think I might like the facetrack better.
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RE: FalconBMS not responding to my head motions???
Have you set it up in the settings in BMS?
Yes. just as shown in the screen grab above.
FacetrackNoIR was working with pure face tracking. Now nothing works.
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FalconBMS not responding to my head motions???
So I finally got my LED head gear, camera, etc all hooked up. Freetrack showing a nice black screen with three round dots. I have to make some modifications and adjustments but its working.
My problem is that when I enter the game, its not seeing it. I move my head an nothing happens.
While waiting for my camera to show up in the mail, I had downloaded FaceTrackNoIR and was using it with just pure face tracking and it was working. It wasn’t smooth but it definitively was working.
Now I can’t get either piece of software to work within Falcon not matter if I use just face tracking or the led hat.
What did I mess up?
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
It’s better to try FaceTrackNoIr with the pointtracker plugin.
Stable and in development.Can you elaborate on this? What do you find better about it?
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
I use the "3 led target " model attached to the side of my headphones . You must input accurate dimensions into Freetrack then play with the curves to get the desired result inFBMS.
Cheers
I have about a dozen of these safety shield head gear assemblies. I have mounted my led’s to it and put all the resistors and associated wires under the large plastic piece. I almost forget I’m wearing it.
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
Microsoft LifeCam VX3000 dirt cheap works great. Only minor surgery needed to remove the ir filter
Cheers: Dave
Thank you very much… just ordered one…
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
UPDATE:
Well, I have all the software working well, my new problem is that the playstation eye camera I purchased (a whopping $4 on ebay) is the WRONG PLAYSTATION camera. Apparently there are more than one (two?) versions of this unit and they look identical from a quick inspection of the outside. My camera was model SLEH-00448 so don’t buy it on ebay!!! The IR filter can not be removed.Tried my wife’s webcam (radioshack garbage gigaware) but it apparently has some very strong IR filtering because I can not get my leds to show up on the camera if they are further than 5 or 6 inches away. Tried the floppy disk thing, tried using a lab grade power supply (constant current/constant voltage) to over-drive the leds just a bit, but no success. I can get the leds to show up, but not if I hold them further than 5 inches from the camera lens.
So now I’m on the hunt for a camera that works.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
Salt… where did you find the patch for the PS3 Eye, can you give the details to me?
Thanks in advance
I had it emailed to me from someone else. Send pm and I’ll email it to you. I scanned it with both yahoo, google, and my avast and it was clean.
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
I placed a piece of floppy disc in front of the camera. No issue at all
There is an issue. The floppy disc is an IR Pass filter, or you could call it a short wave rejection filter. There is an IR rejection filter within the lens. While its not a big deal if you’re using the shorter wave IR leds in the low 800Nm wave, it will seriously attenuate anything above 880Nm or so. You probably won’t get good detection with the more invisible waves.
I thought it was very cool when I first tried it with the unmodified camera. The 940Nm Led is totally invisible to the naked eye. Not even a hint that its on but when seen with the unmodified camera, you could see a faint purple glow coming from the led. But it was very faint. The modified camera with the ir filter removed shows it VERY bright like looking at the sun. You have to actually turn down the gain to resolve a nice circle.
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
Did you mess the ps3 camera for the infa red lenz or was it not needed?
Yes. Pulling the case apart was a royal pain. I’ve seen consumer gun safes that are easier to get into. Once you take the screws out you have to use a small screw driver and pry the living heck out of it all the way around the edge. Then pull. I was surprised at how difficult it was to get that little bugger opened.
Then use a brand new, very sharp Exacto-knife to cut around and pry out the retaining ring. Just below that is a piece of glass that is about 3/16" thick. Use the knife to cut around the outer edge and sort of pry it up. A little on one side, then the other, then back. Rinse and repeat until its all the way out. It took me about 30 minutes from start to finish but I could probably cut that in half now that I know what I’m doing.
Oh ya, wear safety glasses. The IR Filter is an actual piece of glass and when you pry on it, it tends to chip and crack and the pieces go flying in all directions.
When I got it working again, I had a piece of diskette taped to the front of the lens. Don’t bother as it doesn’t work. Just remove the ir filter, then set the gain and exposures and turn the blue and green to zero.
All I did to test was to connect a loose LED (940nm) to a 1.5v battery with alligator clips and place it in front of the camera. I was able to resolve a nice round circle of bright red within the free-track interface. So, on to making my headgear.
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
Care to share? Been trying to set that up myself, would appreciate it.
Would do you need? If its a file, send me a PM with your email…
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RE: Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
It’s better to try FaceTrackNoIr with the pointtracker plugin.
Stable and in development.Actually, I found the patch that I needed and it seems to be working quite well. I don’t have my headset made yet, but the camera is able to work with freetrack and it does see my 1.5v battery powered 940nm led with no problems.
Once I get my headset made, I’ll tool around with it and maybe go try FaceTrackNoIR with the plugin.
Thank you for the suggestion
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Can't get Free-Track to recognize PS3 cam input. NEED PATCH FILE…Does anyone have
I folks.
I downloaded free-track to use as my viewing input instead of having to use the keyboard.
As was recommended by another website, I bought a PS3 webcam and it works great on any webcam software except that free-track won’t recognize it and causes free track to crash. I’m using the codelab’s driver and have found out that free-track requires an extra patch file for that setup.It is no longer offered on the free-track website and the file hosting services that most folks linked to back in 2012 or so no longer have it either.
Does anyone have the patch file?
Thank you for your help,