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Oh man my eyes hurt just by looking at the picture, so many lights contrasting so much stuff. You wear glasses now right? Also what the hell are those control panels cougar panels? I definitely have to check it out!
I was like OMG when did ED changed interface so much and then I was like oooohhhhh...
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Cougar MFD (Multi-Function-Display) panels.
Nope to glasses, (Not Yet) and if you think it is bright, that's the camera (Phone) doing that. It is just the right amount of light, for me anyhows. You can dim/brighten the Cougar MFD's through the software supplied (TARGET)
Thanks ya just cost me £250 been looking for good table mounts for my Warthog for ages lol
can they take ya cat climbing on them ? as my two will try lol
Looks like the cockpit of an IL2
Still watching the video, but i find that using a head tracker you keep your eyes on the centre screen and the sides being stretched becomes less of an issue, even a help as they're magnified in your peripheral vision.
Well spotted!
It was a brief test flight in War Thunder.I do use TrackIR and yes, I'm aware that the side screens are more for peripheral vision than anything. Still the first impression was that the stretching appeared very prominent and grating. I've since dug a bit deeper into the stretching issue. It occurs, because the ingame camera assumes the 5760x1200 resolution image renders, is the projection from one viewpoint in the game world to a flat image. When aligning the three screens in a straight line, the stretching is more or less correct - after all, when turning the head to look at the outer parts, you look at them from a rather steep angle, so the stretched objects appear more or less normal. As a result however, the outer screens are useless for normal PC use, as text on them beceomes near unreadable due to the distance and viewing angle. The "Simultaneous Multi-Projection" solution offered by NVidea...? It seems to have been largely ignored by the gaming world with only one title (or so?) supporting it in the first place: iirc iRacing. Another solution would be, if games supported rendering actual multiple virtual cameras - one for each screen. But that would require you to tell the game at what angle the multiple monitors are placed. This seems to exist, but also seems to be supported by very few titles (iRacing (?) and...), but certainly not by Elite or some older sim titles. And it would overtax my GTX970 anyway.
My personal solution is to place the side screens at a less steep angle. What I ususally see in large sim rigs, is some near 45° angle between the center screen and the side screens, which may be necessary when they're using three 40'' -something screens. My three Dell U2415 are 24'' screens however and the desk is wide enough to allow placing the side screens at an ~20° angle. That way, they're usable when not playing a game and the stretching doesn't stick out as sourly. The "surround" effect isn't as prominent, but the image stretching would thoroughly ruin that anyway, if the screens were more steeply angled.
Edit: The incorrect stretching is a bit like vieweing a 3D street image...
3d-street-art-sarasota by Leon Keer, auf Flickr...from the wrong angle:
streetpainting-sarasota by Leon Keer, auf FlickrNot as dramatic, but it's the same effect.
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Here's my current setup:
Peripherals:
Thrustmaster HOTAS X
27" Acer Predator XB270Hu
2 x 24" random Acer each side
Logitech G502 mouse
Logitech G710+ Keyboard
Steelseries Siberia 800 Headset
Judgmental Co-Pilot (Cat)
PC:
i7-4790K
GTX 980 Ti
16 Gb Corsair Dominator RAM
Samsung 950 Pro SSD 256Gb boot drive
ADATA 64Gb SSD pagefile
2 x WD Black (RAID 0) for games installations
4TB WD Blue random file storage
EVGA Supernova Platinum PSU 1000w
NZXT Noctis 450 Case
Peripherals:
Thrustmaster HOTAS X
27" Acer Predator XB270Hu
2 x 24" random Acer each side
Logitech G502 mouse
Logitech G710+ Keyboard
Steelseries Siberia 800 Headset
Judgmental Co-Pilot (Cat)
PC:
i7-4790K
GTX 980 Ti
16 Gb Corsair Dominator RAM
Samsung 950 Pro SSD 256Gb boot drive
ADATA 64Gb SSD pagefile
2 x WD Black (RAID 0) for games installations
4TB WD Blue random file storage
EVGA Supernova Platinum PSU 1000w
NZXT Noctis 450 Case
![[VR] Frank_G](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/59/59394.jpg?1553527111){kind=avatar}
Computer:
Intel i5 4690k
NVidia GeForce GTX 1080ti
32 Gigs RAM
1 TB SSD
2 TB SSHDD
17" Monitor 1920 x 1080
additional 7.1 soundcard for transducers
Sim Hardware:
Occulus Rift with 2 Sensors and Touch Controllers
Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS
Thrustmaster t.flight rudder pedals
Thrustmaster Cougar MFD panels 2x
USB Mini Keyboard with touchpad
Logitech G13
2 x 50 Watts BasePump II Transducer
1 x 80 Watts BasePump III Transducer
Software:
Windows 10
VoiceMeeter (for splitting audio between headphones and transducers)
UCR (for putting the two toe brakes of the pedals into a single axis)
Captain´s Log (for keeping track of my Elite voyages)
(i run VR games exclusively on this system)
I have to giggle a little here... All these really fancy setups and Frank_G uses boxes for his Hotas stands... Do until you can do better!
I am planning on getting a motion platform, so i dont waste money on stands right now, until i know, how to mount all that fancy stuff the right way
All those loose cables in these pics make my teeth crawl around in their sockets.
Am I the only one who hates loose cables with a passion burning like the core of a dying star?
Am I the only one who hates loose cables with a passion burning like the core of a dying star?
Oh yes, i hate loose cables. I seriously need to get some USB extension cables to sort the mess.
Keyboard Ques
Interested in that keyboard - are certain keys customisable with colours? Make, Model?
Interested in that keyboard - are certain keys customisable with colours? Make, Model?
Lol- it drives me absolutely potty too, mate. Bad enough on my own rig, but we 'hot desk' at work, sharing grotty PCs that are covered in dust with wires and cables going in all directions. It's maddening!
It can do a LOT of colour customisation's, but to make sure it does what you are asking read here where i bought it from. (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HYX48EY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 )
Wow, looks really good.