TrackIR 5

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tis working perfectly and didn't take long to make. Assuming you have a webcam, soldering iron (there are alternatives if you can't), and a spare baseball cap, the total cost for me was £5 inc delivery. I even had to order resistors in lots of 50's because they cost 2p each, but that still just cost £1.



Hey Panda, I got everything from http://uk.farnell.com/ and followed this simple guide http://forum.free-track.net/index.php?showtopic=1856
Now I have it sewed onto a baseball cap and it works perfectly.

-though I get a bit dizzy, still getting used to it. I've been making mistakes because I'm too busy looking about the cockpit or off at the scenery, but don't let that put you off trying Freetrack. Imagine you spent £140 on TrackIR and concluded it was a bit of a gimmick. Though, I will continue to use it in Live For Speed, FSX and IL-2, perfect for any sim game.

-note, I'm assuming the link is ok as the firm only sells electrical stuff and not computer hardware.

- lol I'm at a severe disadvantage getting used to it. Its a bit of a gimmick but its really cool.

Nice one!

with my cachya setup I find it is very sensitive to the room lighting, and requires tweaking each time i start it up, or it wont work or it will freak out and the camera will go crazy, and the light has to be just right (pain in the backside)

How is your freetrack setup with regards to ambient room lighting? will it work in different lighting?

 

[iamTakeo]

Nice one!
How is your freetrack setup with regards to ambient room lighting? will it work in different lighting?

I've been playing it during the day and bright sunlight caused Freetrack to lose sight of the LEDs. You can manually lock exposure and threshold settings to get the optimal settings. You can however modify your webcam to be more receptive to IR (I shouldve stated my Eyetoy is unmodded). Theres 2 things you can do with Freetrack to further the performance.
1. You can open up the webcam and remove the IR filter, which will let more IR light through.
2. You can put some negative film or the insides of a floppy disk over the webcam lens to block out visible light, but still lets IR light through.

In short, very versatile, you can make it suit your conditions.

 

[Hodge]

Another vote for TIR 4. I use it in both FS9 and FSX.

 

[e_dewson]

I cant get used to using track ir as a soldier in arma2, as soon as I need to shoot people I get disorientated with my surroundings and my gun sight.

Track ir is good for flight sims & driving games etc but total weird as a soldier in arma.

I'm 50/50 still on mine, not sure if I will keep it much longer!

Definately a little weird in Arma II but a great piece of kit for FSX

 

[leaskovski]

Nice one!

with my cachya setup I find it is very sensitive to the room lighting, and requires tweaking each time i start it up, or it wont work or it will freak out and the camera will go crazy, and the light has to be just right (pain in the backside)

How is your freetrack setup with regards to ambient room lighting? will it work in different lighting?

If you are lazy, like me, there was a guy on the free track forums who was making caps with good IR leds on them. The cap only cost like £15 or something. It was very good quality and it worked very well. It even had a battery holder on the back of the cap. All the cables were stitched into the cap itself.

As for the light issue, I had to remove the IR filter from the webcam for the IR leds to work properly. This wasnt an issue as it was very straight forward to do this on the MS webcam that i purchased. This way, you dont tend to have light issues with freetrack.