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OT: Track IR arriving soon

Kiwikat said:
This friday my Track IR should be here :jump:

Does anyone have any tips or experiences I can learn from? Anything particular I need to pay attention to when setting it up?

I can't wait! :monkies:
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Get a bucket to put next to your computer desk the first few times you use it! :barf:

Seriously though, on my older P4 system I found that the movement was "jerky" compared to my new i7 920 system and I think that was one reason for the nausea. Running it with the default profiles for fsx and Blackshark on my new system gives me no problems.

Once you try it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Darrell
 
I got my Track ir yestreday. I need to get use to it. Completly different experience, but it is great :)
 
hews500d said:
Get a bucket to put next to your computer desk the first few times you use it! :barf:



Darrell
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LOL, my oldest brother came up to stay last year and I hooked him up with the trackir4 and after about 15 min. he was ready to use the bucket. o-well, more flying time for me!

Jim
 
I've been using mine for about a month. It adds a lot to the sim. The hat clip worked fine on my headset. I found that turning off the x and z axis eliminated the queasy feelings without
detracting too much from the experience.
Bruce
 
Never had a moments nausea with it, but being a wearer of vari-focal glasses, I had to get a pair of cheap off-the-shelf single vision specs.

The reason is that as you turn your head to alter the view, and move your eyes back toward the screen, you end up looking through a portion of the varifocal lense that is of the wrong focal length for your computer monitor's distance, and so its blurred.

A pair of £8.99 single-visions from one of those rotating stands you find in supermarkets and chemists in the UK worked perfectly.
 
I got Track IR 4 Pro a few months ago. Absolutely love it; a must have. One thing I dont quite get tho since I use FS9 90% of the time is why in FSX the track view works in spot view and the hat key doesnt. Most annoying. Any way to fix that?

LPXO
 
LonelyplanetXO said:
I got Track IR 4 Pro a few months ago. Absolutely love it; a must have. One thing I dont quite get tho since I use FS9 90% of the time is why in FSX the track view works in spot view and the hat key doesnt. Most annoying. Any way to fix that?

LPXO
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I found the TIR function in spot view annoying for the first few months myself, but I guess I just got used to it. Oddly, it only works for panning in that mode. On my rig, I can still use the hat switch for tilting. I'm not 100% sure this would work, but it just occurred to me that you might be able to use FSUIPC (payware version) to set up a button that both disabled TIR using a keypress and then switched to spot view. Of course, you'd have to set up another that switched back to VC and sent another keypress to re-enable the TIR. Since the same key is just a toggle in the TrackIR software, you'd have to be careful to start with the correct mode (enabled or disabled) or the button would get out of whack. Still, it's theoretically possible.
 
spotlope said:
I found the TIR function in spot view annoying for the first few months myself, but I guess I just got used to it. Oddly, it only works for panning in that mode. On my rig, I can still use the hat switch for tilting. I'm not 100% sure this would work, but it just occurred to me that you might be able to use FSUIPC (payware version) to set up a button that both disabled TIR using a keypress and then switched to spot view. Of course, you'd have to set up another that switched back to VC and sent another keypress to re-enable the TIR. Since the same key is just a toggle in the TrackIR software, you'd have to be careful to start with the correct mode (enabled or disabled) or the button would get out of whack. Still, it's theoretically possible.
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FSUIPC can't do anything with TrackIR. TrackIR 'sees'
keystrokes ( or buttons/switches ) before they get
to FSUIPC, thus you can't control TIR with FSUIPC.

In spot mode, just put TrackIR into 'pause mode'
( toggle the enable ) and then you can use the hat
switch 'normally'. This is also true in the VC.
Both tilt and pan work with the hat.

I have both the 'Enable' and the 'Center' commands
mapped to buttons on my X-45 setup and use them
both constantly as I move about the VC ( I have multiple
camera definitions set to switch with my #3 hat ).
It's now second nature to use those two functions
to manipulate/see switches and controls that are
hard to see from the normal eyepoint or difficult
to operate due to small click-spots.

I'm rarely out of the VC but occasionally will go to spot
view to double check the aircraft configuration. I just
toggle 'Enable', hit the 'S' key and then use the hat
to walk/fly around the aircraft. Flick my thumb too the
left on my #2 hat and I'm back in the left seat. Hit the
TIR 'enable' button and I'm back to 'normal', all in a
matter of seconds.

I highly recommend experimenting with CameraDefinitions
activated with "HotKeySelect=" statements for each
definition, and the HotKeys assigned to buttons, switches
of a Hat on your stick/throttle setup.

The combination of TrackIR and multiple positions/views
in the VC made possible by the CameraDefinitions make
flying so much easier. The two systems compliment one
another very well.

Paul
 
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