Hello Erik, Thank you. I will try it..
----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Hofman <e...@ehofman.com> Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:48 am Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Enable headtracking in FlightGear? To: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > wjp.vri...@quicknet.nl wrote: > > Hello FlightGear developers, > > > > In the FlightGear forum I stumbled upon a request from users, to > enable head tracking in FlightGear (head tracking that is i.e. > provided by Freetrack or TrackIR). Until now, I found no evidence that > someone has embraced this request, so I would like to jump in... > > > > As you may know, the mentioned 'head trackers' have one great > disadvantage: they require the user to wear a hat (or something > similar) with Infrared LED's attached to it, to enable tracking. > Recently I have made a head tracking program, based on the FaceAPI > from SeeingMachines, which ONLY requires a simple web cam. By now, we > only support the Freetrack-protocol (which is open-source) and are > seriously testing it with ArmA 2 (actually, the first attempt gives > really promising results). > > > > On the FlightGear forum, I found a reference to a program made by > Anders Gidenstam (http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/) > in which he states that it is possible to send UDP-packets to > FlightGear, with head tracking data in it. I am currently implementing > his information in my program (which I call FaceTrackNoIR, by the way) > and I think I can start testing the results soon. There is, however, > one problem: I have no experience whatsoever with FlightGear. > > > > Could someone tell me, in a brief manner, how I can enable > FlightGear so that it will listen to my UDP-packets? It would also > help, if someone could tell me what data FlightGear expects in the packets... > > It is described in the protocol configuration file: > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/headtrack.xml > > run: fgfs --generic=socket,in,<period>,,<port>,udp,headtrack > > where <period> is the update period in Hz > > It uses the generic protocol in binary mode to set the internals of > FlightGear (See README.IO and README.protocol in FlightGear/data/Docs > > for more information). > > Erik > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
