Track IR

[Lusche]

its not checked and i have to lean to look behind me. is that what you are saying i should do, or should i have it checked?

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That's not want he meant.
If you have it checked you would have to lean the opposite way you would do in real life.. hence it's better to leave it unchecked.

[lyric1]

I am still getting up to speed with it. It is almost learning every thing all over again & is a little disorienting at first & old habits die hard.

[Phil]

Beware of two littl' things !!!!!!!


My set up is in my computer room office.
White walls all around and a nice window that CAPTURES the sun rays at approx 1400hrs ! Bright sunlight bouncing of walls and other
shinny things in your room may cause your trackIR to go nuts !!!
My views started doin' crazy things until I closed the window blinds !

Here's a funny part !
Although being 45yrs of age, I have lots of hair 
My hair dude(spike) was interfering with the reflectors(attached to head set) especially when looking up a bit. Spiked hair was(blocking) and unit started doing weird things !
So if you are balding, no problem you are clear ! If not, wear a baseball cap backwards !!!(or the PRO-CLIP)

Just for your information !

Salute
Phil /OPP7755

[Old Sport]

Although being 45yrs of age, I have lots of hair 
My hair dude(spike) was interfering with the reflectors(attached to head set) especially when looking up a bit. Spiked hair was(blocking) and unit started doing weird things !

 
The cap I use for the clip is an open-top "bill" and until I figured out the problem, a lock or two of my blondish hair was causing the view to go crazy... 

If no one has said it, though I think Mace has, TIR set up with an aggressive profile is better for you in the long run. In other words, set it up so that when you turn your real head just a tiny little you get a lot of virtual turn.

I also have my receiver sitting just slightly higher than the clip level on my cap. That seems to help insure good reception when I'm looking all around for the inevitable bandit on my tail. 

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[Halo46]

I have one problem that I have yet to eliminate. My view when in tower moves around a lot, especially drifting back and forward. In plane, it does not do it as bad, but it is still there requiring me to center it pretty often. All background lighting is off, any ideas?   

[ImADot]

When in the tower, or a GV, I just use the hotkey that I assigned to temporarily disable the TIR and use my normal POV hat on my HOTAS.

[avionix]

Ordered the TrackIR with the ProClip today.     Should be here next week.     Can't wait to try it out.  I am going to sit at the mailbox like an impatient kid sitting at the tree on Christmas morning.

[ImADot]

Ordered the TrackIR with the ProClip today.     Should be here next week.     Can't wait to try it out.  I am going to sit at the mailbox like an impatient kid sitting at the tree on Christmas morning.

So did I 

After the initial weirdness you'll be so used to it that you'll never go back to the old POV hats while in flight. And for those times when you don't have it turned on, you'll probably catch yourself moving your head and wondering why the screen isn't panning around. 

[avionix]

Not to get off subject.

ImADot where in MN are you at?  Grew up in the Waseca and Mankato area where I did all of my flight training.

[fudgums]

Not to get off subject.

ImADot where in MN are you at?  Grew up in the Waseca and Mankato area where I did all of my flight training.

then you moved to florida 

[Cobra516]

TrackIR is an outstanding device, I don't how how I flew so many years without it!   It certainly has a learning curve, but be patient with it and tweak your response curves to your liking.  Over time I have incrementally made mine much more sensitive, seems like I just think about moving my head and it's moved, pretty slick.

Here's something that I didn't find until a week or two into Aces High with TrackIR - go into your Options > Preferences > View Options > and CHECK the box "TrackIR Object Relative Move" - it really changes the way TrackIR works when looking offcenter/behind you.  It makes it much more accurate / true to your head movements, makes checking your 6 a breeze.  Before I checked this TrackIR seemed to behave strangely when looking left/right/behind and leaning. 

[Lusche]

Here's something that I didn't find until a week or two into Aces High with TrackIR - go into your Options > Preferences > View Options > and CHECK the box "TrackIR Object Relative Move" - it really changes the way TrackIR works when looking offcenter/behind you.  It makes it much more accurate / true to your head movements,

You are sure you really mean "check" not "uncheck"? Because actually checking this box leads to a very unatural "mirror" behaviour:
With that box unchecked you have to lean left to move your virtual head to the left when looking backwards. IF you check it, you have to move to the right to lean left, as if looking into a mirror.

[Cobra516]

Interesting, that hasn't been my experience, it was the exact opposite of what you're describing with the box unchecked.  When I was looking backwards at my tail, if I leaned to the right (wanting to move out to view around the seat), my head would go left back towards the center of the screen/seat.  When looking forward, the box checked or unchecked did not seem to have any effect, it's only when the view is reversed, as in looking behind your 3/9 line. 

Testing it right now, with it checked, the movement looking at the tail is natural - lean right to move my head out over the left wing for a view of the tail.  With it unchecked, that same movement puts my head looking at the headrest/at the tail closer to the right wing, completely backwards.  Leaving it checked is a much more natural movement/resulting view.

If you imagine sitting in the pit in your chair and directly behind your chair is your tail, and you turn your head left to look out over your left shoulder behind you and out away from the seatback, you turn 180 and lean to the right.

[Phanza]

Been using TrackIR since I started playing. It's become so natural to me, I even do the moves in games where it doesnt work. I made a video a while back of me using TiR in a sortie in F4U, where the 6 is normally pretty blocked. But as you can see in this vid. I can even see beyond my tail.

www.bygs.dk/mov/phanz.wmv (will only leave it on for a few days, for isp issues)

[avionix]

Just got my TrackIR in the mail at work.  Want to go home so freakin' bad.     But, the boss won't let me.