Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
On Monday, 22 November 2004 22:37, Boris Koenig wrote: David Megginson wrote: I understand that there are USB devices that you can wear on your head to control the view in games, and those would probably work in FlightGear, but it would be hard to survive the ridicule from family, friends, and neighbours for wearing one. LOL, that would indeed be very amusing ... must probably look very similar to the BORG on Star Trek ;-) There is also a program called Cam2Pan that uses a standard webcam to track facial movement WITHOUT needing to stick anything weird on your head. Of course it's closed source, proprietary and only runs on Winbloze. From all the reviews I've read about it it evidently does not work as nicely as TrackIR3. BTW : The reflective stickers that TrackIR uses can be stuck to anything including a cap or microphone boom. If you want to stick it on your forehead and forget it there when you go to the shops is your problem! :) I think some sort of head tracking device would be great in FG especially with the 3D cockpits. Using a mouse and yoke/joystick at the same time is a bit tricky. Paul ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
David Megginson wrote: That is a problem for all kinds of things in the panel. In real life, you cannot see everything at once, of course -- you move your eyes, head, and even your whole upper body around (I have to put my head nearly on my passengers left shoulder to get a good view of the mag compass without a parallax error). Mmmmh, depending on who your copilot is In a C150 things are much easier because the compass is very close - as is your copilot :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:09:10 + (UTC), Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmmh, depending on who your copilot is In a C150 things are much easier because the compass is very close - as is your copilot :-) In the Warrior, you can see the numbers fine, but because you're looking at a 45-degree angle, you won't be reading the correct heading -- that's why you have to move your head right in front of the compass. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
David Megginson wrote: I understand that there are USB devices that you can wear on your head to control the view in games, and those would probably work in FlightGear, but it would be hard to survive the ridicule from family, friends, and neighbours for wearing one. LOL, that would indeed be very amusing ... must probably look very similar to the BORG on Star Trek ;-) --- Boris ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
David Megginson wrote: I'm pretty happy with the magnetic compass now. I won't claim that it's a perfect simulation, but it's close enough for practice, [...] To be honest: I mostly found the compass a bit small for real use. I remember Curt's report about their commercial simulator which uses pictures as background for their gauges. I'd suspect this approach would heavily improve the readability of the compass. Curt, wouldn't 'your' flightsim company be happy to contribute the images that you use for the high-res panel ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] Magnetic Compass
I'm pretty happy with the magnetic compass now. I won't claim that it's a perfect simulation, but it's close enough for practice, and should be especially fun (??) for IFR students practicing partial-panel work. I was sorry to throw out Alex's much more elegant code for my crude hacks. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially with the trig problems. I'd be very grateful if everyone could check out the latest code from CVS and try out the magnetic compass with different aircraft. The effects will be most noticeable at higher latitudes, especially in North America. Now, if you enjoy that, try FlightGear with --failure=vacuum (which will disable the gyro compass in the 172 or Warrior) and try navigating using only the magnetic compass (hint: timed turns are your friend). All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
