Track File with VR

[Kayos]

If you save a Track File while wearing a Rift/Vive and reply it from the main menu can you look around while watching the track without it breaking? I know with TrackIR as soon as you start looking around it will eventually start doing something that you didn't record. Fly straight, crash etc....

[Milopapa]

Yes, you can do that. In fact that's what happens by default. (You need to press "Take control" in the menu to let them fly the plane.)

I had friends and family sit in the Huey and enjoy a ride over Vegas with a track I recorded earlier.

Only things, is when you start the replay, make sure you hit Ctrl+F1 to enable free view, otherwise the view will be the same as in the recording, which will make people sick in a heartbeat. :puke:

Once you press it, the view will follow their head movements.

 

Oh and also ask them to look straight ahead and center their views with NUM+5.

[Teej]

otherwise the view will be the same as in the recording, which will make people sick in a heartbeat. :puke:

 

+1! That will mess you up. :D

 

To the OP: I never had that happen with TIR (aside from the fact that playbacks are often not 100% perfect to begin with...) and I see no difference in that regard with Rift.

 

That said, what I don't like is I can't (currently - they may be working on this) take a track from a Rift flight and watch it without rift, if I expect to be able to padlock/zoom on things. The track itself plays fine but viewing...doesn't. I started a thread about that the other day and had a bit of an exchange with Skatezilla over it.

[Kayos]

Yes, you can do that. In fact that's what happens by default. (You need to press "Take control" in the menu to let them fly the plane.)

I had friends and family sit in the Huey and enjoy a ride over Vegas with a track I recorded earlier.

Only things, is when you start the replay, make sure you hit Ctrl+F1 to enable free view, otherwise the view will be the same as in the recording, which will make people sick in a heartbeat. :puke:

Once you press it, the view will follow their head movements.

 

Oh and also ask them to look straight ahead and center their views with NUM+5.

 

Awesome, thanks!

[Milopapa]

Oh by the way.

I had my parents try DCS, having them ride a Huey and then a P-51 (in recordings I made earlier for this purpose) and my 60 year old mother had the time of her life.

She came out all starry eyed and asked if she could try controlling the aircraft.

So I put her back in and let her fly over Vegas in a Mustang.

She was absolutely blown away. She said she was always fascinated by flying but only ever sat on commercial airliners. VR has given her an experience she never thought she could have.

 

Oh and when she asked how much it cost and I told her, she went: "Only??? It's worth 3 times that."

 

:D

 

PS Now I'm thinking of buying her an introductory lesson in a small aircraft as a birthday present.