I have flown with TIR4 in AH since January and am very impressed with the improvement in SA, and immersion.
I sent a suggestion to Natural Point that I'm putting below.
Basically what the modification would do is make looking around your headrest or aft bulkhead a lot easier, and more automatic, as it would be in real life, rather than having to lean over each time.
Any of you other TIR users who think the idea is good might want to drop them a line too at:
support@naturalpoint.com------------------
Greetings,
First of all, I want to say how pleased I am with the performance of the Track IR 4 that I purchased at the beginning of this year. I have been flying virtually in Aces High for several years, and Track IR has revolutionized my experience. I wonder how I ever enjoyed the sim without it.
After flying with Track IR for several months I have noticed something related to the current Yaw that I think could be modified slightly to add even more to the sensation of realism without demanding excessive new coding.
When a human being turns their head to look aft, the physiology of the neck prevents the head from pivoting on a fixed point. In other words, the head and eyes are moved away from the pivot point as the head turns to look aft. If I turn my head to look over my left shoulder, my neck forces my head to move over to the left of the "pivot point" as my head gets to the point of looking aft. That means that I cannot pivot my head to look directly behind my head. Whenever I look aft, my head will always be moved over to the right and to the left.
The current Yaw gauge controls the rate of turn of the virtual head per turn of the real head. I suggest adding a gauge that gets input from Yaw, but outputs the amount of natural head movement on the X axis that results from turning the head left or right.
X variation from center of Yaw pivot – or Variation from Center of Pivot – VCP – might be okay for a name.
This gauge would be separate from the X gauge that controls leaning left and right. But I think that a lot of the coding for the current X axis might be used as the basis for the new control gauge. The input would instead be the amount of Yaw turn, and that would then output through X axis coding.
In any case, I do think this feature would add yet another improvement to an already fine product.
Best Regards,
