Gremlin77

immersive was the only software I found working good with DCS and multiple Displays warped and not warped on one PC. Price is with 100€ acceptable I think regarding the result. Shouldn't be able to coat the cover. It's a kind of plastic, not sticky enough for additional paint. And thanks guys for the nice comments! Hopefully tomorrow I can post pics with right alignment and cockpit displays running...

Damn, this thing really works. Never had in mind it would be such a great feeling with the curved screen. Hope you can see it on the pics as good as it is reality!! I'm very happy with my solution. And this is just the two projector solution, what would it look like with three. As you can see have to make some warping adjustments on right side and purchase the registered program from Flight elise Imersive Desktop. Works great with nearly no fps loss. YES I AM HAPPY:lol:

I use a kind of rubber rope like installed in bicycle expanders but stronger. These go through the eyelets of the cover and over the PVC tube. The tube is fittet on every vertical wood with a special clamp. The advantage is, that the tube makes a perfect circle form. With "cracks" I meant that you have to cover the space between the plates with some kind of cast what can get cracks over the time. The other problem I saw was, that if you wand a circle form with plates, your hole support frame has to have this perfect form, too. Didn't have an idea how to realise this the easy way in this dimension. BTW, the picture is not the end result, the sheet is not spanned at all. Missing tubes at sides and bottom....

Thanks for the tips. At first I also wanted to go the plate way, but I was wondering if the joints can be made without getting cracks over the time. I like the idea with the foam plates. Will take a look at the local shops

Started to hang up the projection surface. For trying if the hole sh.. will work, I use a lorry cover that costs only 4€ / square meter and not a beamer projection surface at about 30 €. Have to wait for the remaining PVC tubes for the frame to span the hole thing. Then we'll see if the wrinkles from posting the coverwill disappear and if projection will look as good as I wish it should. Tomorrow we'll know more..:cry: now I have to cool my arms .... fitting the eyelets was hell.....

yes, they are expensive, but have two advantages: 1st, they don't need a graphics port. If you have lot of screens running, this counts most 2nd they are small and fit behind the cockpit front panel. Not easy to get a 7'' or 8'' VGA monitor. fps is no problem when you use them for displaying MFDs, CDU etc.

Yeah, that looks like a toy for gownups!!!

This seat looks a bit small for my butt.......... Looking forward to see the "real thing"

This forum right here I mean. In-Output and Homecockpit. In these two you'll find the answers to all your wishes......... YES, WE WANT PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have give you the link for HELIOS at my thread. after installing HELIOS, start it and add the DCS interface. Got to to interface page, and click "setup DCS with helios". After that, check out the export.lua file. Here I learned how to interface the DCS with my Visual Studio programs, 'cause HELIOS also sets up an UDP network connection with DCS. All you further need is the devices.lua and the clickabledata.lua files to find out the informations you need. As mentioned, check the forum for howto.

sure, it is a software form Gadroc. His Homepage is www.gadrocsworkshop.com. There you can download it. Search the Forum for manual to set it up. Great piece of software. You can get awesome results! And don't forget to donate for Gadroc!!!!

quick question: what interface are you using? Isn't it possible to connect all the - poles of the switches and use only one wire for - pole to interface. Then you should need only half amount of wires....

Started up with the curved screen this morning. On the vertical stanchions I'll fix a curved steel tube with 3/4'' on top and bottom which has the exact diameter of 9 meters. (I know a steel worker with a curving machine) Between these two tubes the projection screen will be spanned using rubber ropes every 20 cm on all four sides. Hope this will give me a nice curved screen without any wrinkles.

No no, it's faced to the garden. Just thinking how funny it would be facing to the street......Sure, every two days some policeman in friendly green dresses would stand in front of my door asking dumb questions.....Do you have a permission for that....Does it still have the cannon installed......Are there any nuclear bombs on board.......have you got paperwork about disposure of the wings..... Can you begin the third world war with this jet And after about 2 month there will arrive the friendly men with the white jacket offering me a room in the urban psychatry paying no rent...... I wondered that no one of the public order office came when the cockpit hang on the mobile crane so everybody could see it....I had some luck I think Hip hip horray on German bureaucracy!!!!!!!!!!

the wood is not the final layer for the floor. when the ground construction is completed, I'll put some aluminium diamond plates on the floor. Probably I'll powder coat them in camouflage (light grey, light blue and white). BTW I'm the manager of a powder coating company, so would be easy to realise for me.

sure, just do it. Would save me a lot of work if you can do this!

wow, very clean work! Looks really great. You should take money for this stuff! Just quit your job and start a business!

just a quick update. finished up the woodwork for the floor. After 2.500 screws I am quite happy with the result. And my hands are happy that it is finished :megalol: Next step is the curved screen with about 9 meters in diameter and a segment of about 120 degrees. For this step the rest of the wood you see is necesarry. Hope it will work easily to continue making simulator stuff......

this is the hard truth casually spoken...............

A little update of the pit build, or better the around the pit thing. Started last week making the support structure of the new floor. This is how far I am at the moment after two days work: And this is the remaining amount of wood. Damn! So sorry guys for not finishing up the program for network sending of screencaptures. But if this room looks like this for a longer time, my wife will throw me out of the house! So finishing this room has priority now. But I promise, I'll finish up the prog as quickly as I can. If anybody wants, I can send him the VB code. Just send me a PM

You just have to arrange your export.lua the same way as for your A-10. All HELIOS needs is an udp stream wich sends the data. Don't have FC3, but it also runs under DCS World, so it should have an export.lua file...I think.....

This is really multi-use! Great Job!

no, this was not the right hint. Problem is to make helios send all actual switch positions on startup.

Thanks for the tip, I'll try!

sorry, was just kidding. Deadman is right. Just look around here in this forum. There you'll find many tips and tricks to start from. My best tool I use for the project is a small cnc laser for cutting and engraving. Then you'll have to decide for a interface system, or, if you want, develope your own. I went this way and used the Arduino things to make my own Interface. If you need any help, just ask. Be sure to spend as much time as possible reading the building threads of the guys here in the forum. So you can avoid getting in trouble by making wrong decissions at the beginning.