AFGHANISTAN!!!
My colleague wouldn't go to Swindon said it's outside the M25. That puts it into perspective.
Hardware & Technical Head Tracker?
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AFGHANISTAN!!!
My colleague wouldn't go to Swindon said it's outside the M25. That puts it into perspective.
AFGHANISTAN!!!
In fairness Swindon is a right dump
As a small sidetrack, let me tell you of something quite humourous that happened to me the first time I used TrackIR. Well, at least in hindsight it's funny now, but it wasn't funny then.
Of course I was very happy when I first got it and quickly used it in my flight sims - Falcon 4, Jane's F15 etc.
After a couple of days, I realised I had a stiff neck. Why?
Because I never configured the TrackIR properly. The "deadzones" were too small and I regularly found the screen shifting due to my head movements. Hence I had to keep PERFECTLY STILL if I want to look ahead
Also it wasn't till I used the TrackIR that I realised I had a lot of unconscious head movements while playing games. Eg, I would try to "duck" in real life if I'm being shot at - I didn't know till TrackIR showed the screen shifting due to my head movements
Of course I was very happy when I first got it and quickly used it in my flight sims - Falcon 4, Jane's F15 etc.
After a couple of days, I realised I had a stiff neck. Why?
Because I never configured the TrackIR properly. The "deadzones" were too small and I regularly found the screen shifting due to my head movements. Hence I had to keep PERFECTLY STILL if I want to look ahead
Also it wasn't till I used the TrackIR that I realised I had a lot of unconscious head movements while playing games. Eg, I would try to "duck" in real life if I'm being shot at - I didn't know till TrackIR showed the screen shifting due to my head movements
For sure, if you have a webcam already there's no harm in trying one of the free solutions. I've never had a webcam, and I don't want one either, so a Track IR was a no brainer for me.
This! I hope to see TrackIR support soon in THE game
Hi Mike,
FaceTrackNoIR supports a couple of game protocols VJOY being one of them. FreeTrack is the 'default' game protocol for FaceTrackNoIR. FreeTrack is used by a number of games to allow FaceTrackNoIR to use work with it. FreeTrack can also work with TrackIR games that use non-encrypted version of the TrackIR head tracking interface. The encrypted version was added later to stop this situation by NaturalPoint (TrackIR manufacturer). Could you please let us know if you plan on supporting the FreeTrack protocol for head tracking.
Happy New Year
Haider
Bumping it up to see if anyone has heard anything from FD regarding FreeTrack support?
Yes, but only that it is recognised that the inability to use multiple controllers prevent the use of Vjoy, and it also came up that the new encryption of the TrackIR protocol precluded the tricking of TrackIR SDK into accepting facetrack noir
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11117&highlight=Protocol&page=4
Vote with your feet guys: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12564
Yes I tried this also I ahd the same issue, I found it to be a bug with the vjoy, the hat of the vjoy is always up and while I can get it to work in euro truck simulator, on ED all I get is scrolling menu going up, I re-installed facetracknoir without vjoy and while it works in other games I still cant get it to work in ED
ok got facetracknoir sort of working I posted a video but the lighting is not good and also it kept losing my face will be making a 3p cap soon so maybe that will make a difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbhMBQDoXo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbhMBQDoXo
That's the way you do it in real life too, if you're an aerobatic pilot. Personally, I seem to have a very strong resistance to motion sickness, as I haven't felt the tiniest twinge even when flying aerobatics for an hour - I just get tired. That probably means that my sense of balance is crap, but I don't mind
. OnT: I don't see any reason why Elite Dangerous wouldn't support TrackIR. It already has a detailed 3D cockpit, all they have to do is add the proper routines for it, and I believe the TrackIR guys are very helpful as they want as many games as possible to suppor it. I haven't tried Oculus yet, but I have used TrackIR for innumerably flight sims and other games, and once you try it you can never go back to a hat switch. Plus it helps me not develop bad habits in my real flying - when I first started flight lessons, having played flight sims since I was a wee babe, I basically just looked straight ahead at the instrument panel - not a good idea in a real aircraft, where you need to be constantly scanning.