Motion seats

smithers128 · Apr 26, 2016

I am sure there are threads on this already.......

Looking for my next gaming purchase to enhance my ED VR experience - ED is turning out to be almost as expensive as the wife

- and wondered if anyone has tried the motion chairs, and if so are there any you would recommend that work with ED?

i was looking at the pagnian motion platform v2... Any thoughts?

thanks

catanonia · Apr 26, 2016

The problem is ED does not send out any data on movement and so motion / vibration seats will not work.

I have SimVibe for iRacing and would love it if ED would release an API with motion data to hook into SimVibe.

The best I believe you can do is what I do and put on a single Buttkicker transducer system on your rig. Works, but is not great and is not motion as all it does is vibration to the standard games bass sounds.

-VR- Max Factor · Apr 27, 2016

catanonia said:
The problem is ED does not send out any data on movement and so motion / vibration seats will not work.

I have SimVibe for iRacing and would love it if ED would release an API with motion data to hook into SimVibe.

The best I believe you can do is what I do and put on a single Buttkicker transducer system on your rig. Works, but is not great and is not motion as all it does is vibration to the standard games bass sounds.

With the pagnian motion platform v2 you can set it up to move with your joystick and throttle movements. It won't be perfect, but I believe at it's price range is the best thing out there.

Saying that I don't own one yet, but fully intend to in th future sometime. It will be amazing with driving games in VR as well.

D@edalus · Apr 27, 2016

There's a great online community at http://www.xsimulator.net/ working with motion simulators. I was able to use their 'Simtools' software and their ED plugin to get my custom motion rig to work. I've not looked into whether Simtools supports the Pagnian platform though...

catanonia · Apr 27, 2016

Wow, every day is a skool

day. Never heard of the Pagnian system.

shadragon · Apr 27, 2016

Just time your battles to match the missus kicking the back of your chair. There's your immersion.

nightsmoke · Apr 28, 2016

smithers128 said:
I am sure there are threads on this already.......

Looking for my next gaming purchase to enhance my ED VR experience - ED is turning out to be almost as expensive as the wife &#55357;&#56841; - and wondered if anyone has tried the motion chairs, and if so are there any you would recommend that work with ED?

i was looking at the pagnian motion platform v2... Any thoughts?

thanks

Cool, I'd never heard of the Pagnian stuff before.

As D@edalus mentioned, there is Xsimulator.net (that hosts the SimTools software) where the community works on support for adding motion to games and even has people that work on adding it to games with no native motion data (like Elite). Right now there is a plugin for Elite for SimTools. The problem is every time Frontier updates the game, the plugin has to be updated, because it is reading memory values that change with every update.

Anyway, my point, if the Pagnian hardware can be controlled by simple serial commands, there might be a way to support it with SimTools. From their website though, I don't see enough information. Maybe you could ask them. But even if it does, consider Elite a "bonus" until Frontier decides to take the very short time to provide consistently accessible motion data for their game

I don't know why they won't, it'll only lead to amazing looking youtube videos and increased popularity for their game...

Captain Sharky · May 22, 2016

Simtools also have "joystick" plugin, which can read joystick axis movements and translate them to DOF info. It is more limited then ED plugin, but actually better then nothing, independent from the game itself and can fill the gap between new version of Elite and the next dedicated plugin.