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Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: HomeBoy on August 10, 2006, 11:35:15 PM

Hello,
I am getting back into AH after a year or so off.  I brought TIR4 with me this time.

Question.  I seem to only be able to get about 60 degrees of "up" view.  The KP5 command of course, looks straight up.  TIR is nowhere near that.  I checked the TIR setup utility to make sure it's working there and it swings way past 90 degrees (more like 270!!).

Any ideas on how to get tir to provide me some more up view?

Thanks

Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: Kermit de frog on August 10, 2006, 11:38:24 PM

Make sure they are the settings for the "profile" that you use for Aces High.

Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: HomeBoy on August 10, 2006, 11:59:28 PM

Oops.  Sorry, should have waited a little longer on this post.

Figured it out.  I was recentering wrong and limiting my vertical view.  Duh!
First time using 6DOF.  Little adjustment for me.

Thanks kermit.

Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: WilldCrd on August 11, 2006, 08:11:01 AM

i been thinking of getting trak ir, how much they cost? and are they really worth it?

Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: HomeBoy on August 11, 2006, 08:31:21 AM

Personally, I think trackir is the greatest thing to come along since the mouse.  Ok, that may be overdoing this a bit but not by much.

I have always hated using a POV hat.  At the end of a long night, my thumb would be raw.  I tried using padlock views and would always get disoriented.  I gave up on that long ago.  It took me no time at all to get adjusted to TIR.  In fact, after using it a while, your senses get so "fooled" that you really get the feeling you are looking around.  AH is one of the few games that takes advantage of the six degrees of freedom (6DOF) of the TIR4 which in addition to looking up/down, left/right, you can tilt your head, move your head left/right, raise/lower your head, and move closer/farther from the monitor.  You can actually look around the struts in the cockpit.  It is a very "3D" type sensation.

I bought my TIR4 from gogamer.com for $179 which came with a copy of Falcon4/AF which I was willing to pay $39 for at the time.  I've heard people say you can find it for $149 or so but since I'm no longer in the market, I can't say for sure.

It's worth it.  It really is.  It works great with AH too.

Title: looking up with tir4
Post by: Dichotomy on August 11, 2006, 08:46:05 AM

after I get my CH system purchased and more ram track ir is the next item on the 'hey today is Christmas list' :lol