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    Fingers - Leap hand tracking and physical switches for VR and others

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted · Edited by markbam

    I really enjoy checking in and seeing what everyone else comes up with!

     

    Here's my Version 2: Still not the prettiest, but much more compact and gave me a reason to play around with microcontrollers.

    The board is a Seeed Studio XIAO BLE Sense nRF52840 running CircuitPython 8 and emulating both a keyboard and a mouse. (The chip has an IMU but I haven't integrated it for anything quite yet.)

    The buttons are a 5-way hat switch: Up is Mouse Wheel Down: Down is Mouse Wheel Up: Left is Left Mouse Click: Right is Right Mouse Click: Press is ESC key.

    I loved the feel of the haptics on my V1 (Switch Joycon) so I added a small motor that vibrates when I use the buttons. 

    It charges a 50mAh battery via onboard USB-C that I connect with a magnetic cable to reduce wear. It lasts a full day of flying even with the haptics.

    The ring was 3D printed out of TPU from a Ring Sizer on Thingiverse, It ended up being the perfect mounting system for my needs, so I didn't design anything further.

     

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    [Official] SimShaker for Aviators

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted · Edited by markbam

    I got general effects working by adding the following to line 429 in this* location (You probably need to have the M-2000C for this to work). 

    elseif obj.Name == "Mirage-F1CE" then dataTable.name = "M-2000C"

     

    *"C:\Program Files (x86)\SimShaker\SimShaker for Aviators Beta\Data\SimShaker.lua"

     

    This is only a workaround so that the Mirage doesn't feel so dead right now. It does not replicate the usual spot on work that f4l0 produces.

     

     

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    Editing with more information as I find it:

    Engine rumble is missing but I found that argument 1027 returns the engine RPM. I've normalized this return to 0-100 which is what SSA appears to be looking for. However, engine rumble is still not present even though the DCS debug from SSA shows RPM@29 while idle and RPM@84 in burner.

    My code for this so far is as follows:

                local Engine_RPM = string.format("%.0f", MainPanel:get_argument_value(1027)*100)
                dataTable.rpm = Engine_RPM

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    I've attempted to inject Mirage-F1CE into the C# model table to work around the need for the M-2000C, but have been unsuccessful.

    I've added "MirageF1CE=46" to the Model declarations

    and

    "this.modelTable.Add(Model.MirageF1CE, new ModelTableEntry(Model.MirageF1CE, "Mirage-F1CE", AircraftType.Jet));"  to the SetupModelTable of the SettingsDatabase.

     

    Core.MasterManager and Core.DCS.Jets houses the specific aircraft properties and the references I was looking for, but it's quite involved.

    This is much more in-depth than I was expecting. The amount of work that happens behind the scenes for these effects is amazing.

     

     

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    Fingers - Leap hand tracking and physical switches for VR and others

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted

    8 hours ago, wju said:

    meaning the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Holographic" trick or something else?

    wired mouse version based on Arduino works fine, but the wire is annoying, maybe I am "the most ugly solution award" winner 🙂

    anyway, espruinos ordered.

     

     

    Allow me to present my current setup for the "most ugly solution" award. It's bulky, but man, does it work well. Leap Gemini tracking has handled this like a champ and I have zero tracking issues (outside the ordinary). I even have haptics buzz on button presses and joystick movements.

     

     

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    DCS: AJS-37 Patch Jan 27th 2022 Feedback Thread

    in DCS: AJS37 Viggen

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    On 1/31/2022 at 12:15 AM, Sideburns said:

    When I've tested the parking brake issue I've found, with two toe brake pedals, you have to have both down and also rapidly bring them both up again once you have set the parking brake. Otherwise there is a good chance it unset the parking brake if you bring them up slowly, and pretty much always unsets parking brake if you bring up one or the other toe brake.

    I am experiencing the same on MFG Crosswinds.

    [Official] SimShaker for Aviators

    in PC Hardware and Related Software

    Posted

    Feedback for Beta 2.3.3.0:

    "Start with Windows" appears to be working for me. However, (and this is minor) when trying to view the change log, I receive an Unhandled Exception error. (Could not find the path "C:\Windows\system32\data\CHANGELOG.md")

    This error does not appear when I launch SSA manually.

     

    The "Reduce Engine Effect While Airborne" - 100% dampening still doesn't have any effect for me. The engine rumble is the same on the ground, as in the air.

    Module Special Settings Returned to Defaults After Failed Authorization

    in General Bugs

    Posted · Edited by markbam

    Often my internet will act up and this will result in a "Failed to get authorization data". DCS will then deauthorize and unload all of my modules as expected.
    However, u    pon a DCS restart with successful module authorization, all of the special settings related to those modules are returned to their defaults. (Ex: Static Cockpit/MFD Reflections are turned back on)

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    JESTER LANTIRN Feedback thread

    in DCS: F-14A & B

    Posted · Edited by markbam

    On 10/28/2021 at 3:24 PM, Super Grover said:

    We are considering adding other methods of controlling the pod in the direct head control mode, but on the other hand, we don't want to make it just another pilot controls for the LANTIRN mod.

    Just adding my vote for a slew bind.

    I really appreciate the work done on the QEYES and QHEAD and I do find that they have their place and use cases. However, I often find myself needing just a bit more precise control than the head movement in VR provides.

    VRAM Usage Drops After DCS Window Goes Out of Focus

    in Game Performance Bugs

    Posted · Edited by markbam

    I'm a Quest 2 user and have been running into DCS performance issues that I believe are related to the low VRAM of my 3080. Using a plugin for MSI Afterburner, I have been monitoring VRAM *usage* (*NOT allocation*) specifically for DCS.

     

    I have come across a strange occurrence that is always repeatable and gives credence to the accounts I've read of people switching windows and performance improving.

     

    Whenever the DCS window goes out of focus, a good chunk of VRAM is freed. However, this only happens once per aircraft spawn. Something about the initial aircraft load adds a bunch of data to the VRAM that does not usually get cleared. But, for some reason, clicking a different non-DCS window causes DCS to run a garbage collection(or something), thereby freeing up precious VRAM.

     

    Please reference the included graph:

     

    You will see that I load DCS; load into a multiplayer server (in this case Syria@War); then load into an F14. (VRAM usage goes up as expected)

    I let DCS sit for a bit, then click away from DCS to the Task Manager in order to shift it out of focus. (You will see zero VRAM usage because afterburner is now polling the usage of the new active window: Task Manager)

    When I click back to DCS, a portion of VRAM is cleared.

    I click away again a few times, and the VRAM usage now stays the same.

    I now respawn into another aircraft. (You are able to follow the increasing VRAM usage each time I do this)

    I repeat the same process again on multiple aircraft with the same results.

     

    Not sure what this means in the grand scheme; perhaps this is a bug and DCS has room for a VRAM optimization step. At the very least, maybe this information could help someone in my position who is trying to diagnose performance issues related to their VRAM usage.

    (Side note: I have to run Textures- Medium and Terrain Textures- Low in order to not saturate my 3080's 10Gb VRAM on Syria.)

     

    Update: I have received the same results utilizing 2D mode, OculusAPI VR, and SteamVR. This happens in both single player and multiplayer.

    I have also noticed that subsequent switches to different aircraft(without changing window focus) will increasingly grow the VRAM usage.

    However, the game will quickly stutter and garbage collection does appear to happen when the VRAM completely fills up in this way.

     

    My Specs:

    i9-11900K @ 5.4ghz on water

    64GB RAM @ 3600mhz

    GeForce RTX 3080 FE

    2TB NVMe

    Quest 2: Wired Link 5408x2736@90hz

     

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    fholger - Modified OpenVR DLL with AMD FidelityFX SuperResolution Upscaler

    in Virtual Reality

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, RealDCSpilot said:

    Latest release seems not to work properly. The log file throws "Error when submitting for eye 0: 108" and "Error when submitting for eye 1: 108". What i see ingame is something like the lower resolution applied, but the upscaling part missing. I'll test the first release next.


    The downscale is definitely happening and the FPS gain is real.
    My log is showing "Created Upscaled Texture/Sharpening of size...."

     

    But I'm not sure I can actually tell a difference. The labels in the cockpit textures are quite blurry and I don't really feel a difference in the aliasing. 
     

    I also got the same error as above but it only happened in a mission. The main menu was error free. It might be caused by a desync when DCS freezes during loading and the steamVR background pops up for a second. 

     

    For reference:

    Quest 2

    3080

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