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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: ALF on November 06, 2005, 07:59:41 PM

Title: Here I sit all broken hearted, I came to play and the server farted
Post by: ALF on November 06, 2005, 07:59:41 PM

Here I sit all broken hearted,
I came to play and the server farted
HOST CONNECTION LOST
What the hecks with that
I look pretty silly in this Track IR hat



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(http://www.combathanger.com/tirhat.jpg)

Title: Here I sit all broken hearted, I came to play and the server farted
Post by: Shoulman on November 06, 2005, 08:09:11 PM

Its not the Hat man........



 

Shoul out

Title: Here I sit all broken hearted, I came to play and the server farted
Post by: majhavik on November 06, 2005, 08:10:21 PM

yup got booted and can't get back in

Title: Here I sit all broken hearted, I came to play and the server farted
Post by: Bronk on November 07, 2005, 11:12:32 PM

Alf did you modify that vector? If so does it work better and how do you do it.



Bronk

Title: Here I sit all broken hearted, I came to play and the server farted
Post by: ALF on November 08, 2005, 06:58:29 PM

Yes is is modded.  The stock clip is curved in the horozontal but not the verticle.  This tends to lead to the tacking getting lost more frequently in looking up and down.  

I used large gauge aquarium tubing, cut it to length, and used about ½ of the diameter and glued it to the metal clip.  I made sure to follow the existing curve in the 'Y' axis, and glued it so the 'X' axis is about a 45º arc (from its initial 80-90º portion....it smushed a tad.  I found that a drop of super glue to soften up the rubber tubing to allow good adheasion, followed by contact cement holds very well.

I cover the new area with the smallest 'grain' silver reflecto tape from an autoarts store.  The key is that the small grain gives good reflective properties at all angles.  The stuff actually looks a lot like the naturalpoint material...but comes is a roll several feet long for less $$$$.

(http://www.combathanger.com/tirmod.jpg)

I find it works pretty well.  The TIR Vector needs to be as far as practical from your head.  because it tracks three points that are a few inches appart, its easy to go outside its 'fiel of view' with one of the 3, and lose tracking.  be sure you callibrate with the tracking dots view so you can get a REAL center and minimize issues.    I tend to callibrate with more bias to looking up, since theres a plane in the way looking down :aok