TrackIR issue

[HatTrick]

I use TrackIR and I notice that at times when I return to looking forward after checking to the rear quarters that the height of the forward view is all jacked up.  It will either be way over or way under the gunsight.  I have been able to fix it quickly by just 'giving my head a shake'  but it is a tad annoying.  AH is the only game this seems to happen in.

[CRYPTIC]

I use the head center cue. I know not a fix but may be easier than shaking your head.

[ImADot]

Yeah, been happening to me too.  I'm using TIR4 hardware with the ProClip and TIR5 software. 

Perhaps I need to play around a little with the position of the camera.  I've got a pretty aggressive profile and only need to turn my head to the edge of my 24" monitor to see all the way behind me, but perhaps I'm turning too much and the TIR loses track (or fails to keep calibrated) the pro clip emitters.  Maybe I'm just moving my head too fast.  Hmmm, perhaps playing with the smoothing or whatever...

[Tigger29]

Mine was doing something similar awhile back.  After tinkering with it, I found the center IR light on my trackclip was reflecting off of the bottom arm.  Just a little bit of tape right there at the bottom arm closest to the center IR led did the trick.

Repositioning the camera would have also worked as well.

Also make sure there are no lights behind you, or pictures that can reflect sunlight, etc.

[Lepape2]

I just pass my hand in front of the reflector and everything is back into shape when that happens. Its not that annoying.

While we are talking about Track IR, is it me or the new cockpit view boundaries (version 2.20) did not affect the TrackIR head position freedom of movement at all? In the P47 for example, without Track IR, you can move your head position sideways much farther than with TrackIR activated. In fact, you can only move it inside the old boundaries.

That bothers me more than having my view screwed up because I looked too far back for the infrared light sensor to register accurately.

[Infidelz]

Mine was doing something similar awhile back.  After tinkering with it, I found the center IR light on my trackclip was reflecting off of the bottom arm.  Just a little bit of tape right there at the bottom arm closest to the center IR led did the trick.

Repositioning the camera would have also worked as well.

Also make sure there are no lights behind you, or pictures that can reflect sunlight, etc.

Excellent! I had been pretty lazy about addressing this had noticed the same thing but didn't think it would make as much a difference as you stated. So after reading your email I tried it and wow. Big Diff!!

Infidelz

[Tigger29]

Excellent! I had been pretty lazy about addressing this had noticed the same thing but didn't think it would make as much a difference as you stated. So after reading your email I tried it and wow. Big Diff!!

Infidelz

Yes I'm half tempted to just take some sandpaper to it to roughen up the plastic a bit so it doesn't reflect as much.

[Lepape2]

Yes I'm half tempted to just take some sandpaper to it to roughen up the plastic a bit so it doesn't reflect as much.

Just work your light filtering settings in the Track IR menu and ask for a larger detected pixel box for dot tracking (I use 100px). Also, you can just pass the reflectors in water every year or so, soap it up and dry it carefully with a soft cloth. Dirt or stains will not show up visually and you can see the reflexion in the Track IR settings. If its not 3 perfect rectangles, its dirty. Mine was so dirty once that one of the reflectors was completely obstructed... even with max sensitivity. Guess I put it on my head with a donut in the same hand or something...