BHawthorne

Yep Groom Lake takeoff.

Sounds expensive.

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I have 3 versions of rails.7z on my archive drive. Here is the newest one I have. Donno if this is current, but here it is. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B24joGp5wf4vY05TVjVtQUdnaDg/view?usp=sharing

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Correct, TH2G does not do portrait mode. Portrait mode requires either Nvidia Surround or AMD Eyefinity. TH2G is largely an obsolete legacy product since 2009. There are still uses for them but I would not recommend them to anyone with a modern video card.

Looking at the specifications for the DWM32H1G1, unfortunately it's a 720p display with a native resolution of only 1366x720. The problem is in fact that your tv is only 720p. When you set 1080p on it, it means the scaler is downscaling the 1080p signal to the 720p native display resolution. That is why it looks bad. If someone sold it to you specifically as a 1080p native tv, you were lied to. When someone says that a tv is bad for a display they might do good to explain why. Since they did not I will explain it -- a lot of the reasoning is no longer applicable to currently produced tvs though. #1: TVs often have a signal processing chip in them to counter noise and MPEG artifacting of TV signals. It induces latency in the display. More often than not this can be turned off in modern tvs via the tv settings. #2: Pixel switching on TV panels can be slow in some TVs. You don't want something slower than 6ms on pixel switching or it induces ghosting and smearing on fast action content. This is also something no longer much of an issue in modern tvs. #3: First generation UHD TVs were limited to 30hz maximum via the bandwidth limitation of HDMI 1.4a. Most second generation 4k UHD TVs are now HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort enabled though and have port bandwidth capability to push 3840x2160 @ 60hz. The only reason why I wouldn't use a TV as a display is that I wouldn't like the pixel size of a 42" 1080p TV on a desk in front of me. A UHD TV 2160p might not be bad though provided you address things like I mentioned above.

Once we know the model number we'll know a lot more about the specification of the tv. That'll help us diagnose things like if there is any signal processing settings on the tv messing with the picture and definitively know what the native resolution is. Also be able to see if overscan is a problem for your setup. A Google search of Westinghouse and 32" brings up a pretty equal amount of both 720p and 1080p, so I'd really like to isolate out that as not the issue via the model number. I'm rather weary when marketing talks about tv resolution, because less scrupulous sellers will mention non-native scaler resolution instead of native resolution to scam buyers. I see it done all the time with tvs and projectors.

I guess the first question is to ask, what model number and brand is the tv? That way we'll know if it's 720p or 1080p. Hope that it's not a 720p 32", as that is lousy resolution. 720p is common in 32" size. Just because you "didn't get a cheap one", the specs might still be cheap in the sense that it's native resolution might not be good. Either way, we'll know a lot more once we know brand and model.

Looking at their pricing I think they might be confused who their market is. Either that or we're confused that they're actually targeting consumers. :music_whistling:

I believe I made it to Star and AO Ordeal membership levels. Lost interest in in high school when football took priority. 20 years later I'm in the Civil Air Patrol now as a senior member. As an adult, CAP appeals to some of the same interests I had in Boy Scouts. Lots of skill overlap between Boy Scouts and CAP Ground Team and Urban Direction Finding specialties.

The projection mapping that you mention is actually called pre-warping. I suggest using Immersaview SimVisuals, Warp or Nthusim Plus for projector calibration.

http://www.f-84f.org might have a few older ones I photographed. Shows mostly the newer gray cockpit of 52-9089 though. Been using Facebook to document my work on 51-9345 since 2012. Right now I have the cockpit section in my back yard. It'll go into storage in a few weeks though because it's starting to get cold outside. My avatar is the black/green color scheme layout. Would be interesting if Belsimtek and Sim Skunk Works would collaborate on a F-84F for DCS World. One would think it would be mostly performance tweaks between F-86F and F-84F functionality since it's the same gunsight and a lot of the same gauges. Anyways, that's off on a tangent. I can still dream though. :)

Reminds me a lot of the Black and Green cockpit color schemes of the 50's. The gray color schemes came later on. For example the F-84F nose section I own has the Black and Green color scheme. It's a F-84F-10GK. I also maintain a F-84F-51GK that has the newer gray color scheme. I'm thinking the gray is a thing of the 60's with also cammo exterior paint schemes. I think the natural metal finish exteriors with black and green interiors is a lot more sexy than some of the painted exteriors and gray interiors. I realize I'm talking apples and oranges here F-84F vs F-86F, but there are a lot of parallels between the two cockpits -- same gunsight, most of the instruments and interior paint schemes.

If you want assistance on the screen and multi-projection I can help. I also can put you into contact with management at Immersaview. Immersaview SimVisuals or Warp might be an option or if you want something simpler, Nthusim Plus would work for exterior visuals.

Not to play devil's advocate, what what is the merit of this screen material vs just getting a 144 x 60" sheet of Sintra and screen painting it?

I think as a min-maxer gamer, the OP might not be the best fit for DCS World.

A free simulator demo at an air show might seem like it's the proper target audience for your product demo, but it's really not. The fact that the demo was free meant that it attracted children with cheap parents looking to pre-occupy their children at a location where there are very few interactive displays. These people have no interest in purchasing a flight simulator, they're just interested in pre-occupying their children with cheap (free) entertainment. This sort of mindset tends to bring out the worst sort of people who actually find it funny to damage hardware being used to demo the sim. I suggest charging $1/minute to use a sim at an air show to keep out people that have no real interest in the flight sim and are just looking for a cheap way to babysit their kids for 15 minutes. Also do the $1/minute as reservations in 10 minute increments, so you don't have a line of angry impatient people waiting. They just come back when it's time and give the flight instructor their reservation card and get their allocated seat time. Reservations means you can sell out a whole day of flights as early as noon and be able to actually have a paying audience of people that want to know about the sim. The cost of admission truly helps. I think you're going to find that while events like this are fun, they do not give you a bounce directly in sales. If done right, they are a fun experience to host though and might actually break even. Take my opinion as from someone who has staffed flight simulators at air shows for years now. Your target audience is at cross odds with an air show venue unless you charge for seat time. Those that are willing to pay for seat time are most likely also interested in the flight sim itself. Either way, there is not enough throughput at an air show to see a spike in sales or perception of what you're actually trying to demo. The average air show attendee just wants to experience a free amusement ride at your expense. Price of admission keeps the riffraff out and ensures that you can schedule proper demo of things to people who actually want to experience it in a controlled environment via an instructor demoing it. If your goal was to get get the word out for your product, an air show is the wrong venue. If your goal was to get marketing and promotion photos of large crowds using your products, it would be useful. Really depends upon what your end goal was though. Be mindful that you goals for demoing at an air show are often not the same goals the average air show attendee's are.

If it's complaint with the Rift SDK no need to worry.

3 displays you can go either Nvidia or AMD. If you want to do something exotic you need to go AMD though. AMD is much more flexible with display spans. 2x1, 3x1, 4x1, 5x1, 2x2, 3x2 are all options with AMD. If you want to stick to the 3 display span standard either brand will do fine though. At issue is sims are very resource hungry so go with the best single GPU you can afford.

I'm getting a major chuckle out of all the butt hurt. People really are willing to throw out their VR experience just because Facebook might subsidize it? The Rift was born in the hacker segment of the internet. Not like Facebook can force any tracking or content on people with the hacker segment of the population. They'll just use their own drivers with it. I welcome the insane boatloads of cash they have now. Anxious for July to be here already so I can start toying with DK2. Getting purchased by Facebook is not a betrayal of anyone in the community. It's the fulfillment of infinite amounts of cash to get it done right and produced in scale affordably.

Simpit building isn't like cooking. There is no recipe -- no singular right way to got about it. Everyone approaches builds differently. Most people play on their strengths though and start out with what they know -- be it wood working, electronics, computer building, etc. The rest of the stuff is why internet forums exist. We fill in all the rest by prodding all of us for knowledge. :thumbup:

Shouldn't matter as long as they adhere to the Rift SDK with calibration via the Oculus Config Util.

Checking in on this again. This seems to me to be what I should get since I went with the seat. Everything will fit together properly that way.