Flim Posted March 26, 2011 Posted March 26, 2011 IT is easier if you can pay for your hobby from other means....
Gadroc Posted March 26, 2011 Author Posted March 26, 2011 You have to remember though, Gadroc's generating income from the hobby which probably goes to pay for that setup and other household and family goodies. LOL... One would think, but I still caught alot of flak for this. The old marriage adage "What's hers is hers and whats yours is hers..." not far off the mark. I was barley able to get by with this only because I was spending money made by the hobby. I still had to make budget amends by adjusting future spending money from my personal account to hers. In grand scheme of pit building this is actually not very expensive though. 46 TVs can be had for as low as $550 if you catch the right sale (and are willing to wait 3 weeks for ship to store). I'm driving them with a video card (5870 Eyefinity 2GB edition) which is fairly cheap (by video card standards) now a days. 3 x 46" TVs = $1800 - $2400 1 x 5870 2gb or 6950 2gb = $200 - $250 2 x Single Link DisplayPort - DVI = $60 That's less than $3000 for the display system. Compare that with a good projection system and it's not bad at all. Have you seen how much real panels and switches go for. I need to put together the actual cost/benefit of doing this route with touch screens and put it in front of the wife. Of course that's about like the argument that I bought an non essential item on sale and therefore I saved money.
BaD CrC Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 (edited) Eventhough your setup is very impressive, I would probably go for smaller screens (if I could afford it) since the virtual cockpit is now bigger than the reality. It feels like my 2 years old is flying the hog (size wise of course). Maybe you can adjust the fov so you have a 1:1 cockpit size and huge surround vision of the landscape? That would be really cool. Edited March 28, 2011 by BaD CrC 1 https://www.blacksharkden.com http://discord.gg/blacksharkden
Gadroc Posted March 28, 2011 Author Posted March 28, 2011 Actually I don't think its far off. I'll measure the MFDs tonight but they should end up near 5" across on the tv screen if it's 1:1 size. I may have had it zoomed in a little bit in the picture, which is sometimes required to read HUD / see targets on the ground.
C6_Hellfrog Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) really need of TrackIR with so large screens ? (to look outside) Isn't it too easy to identifiy and see targets far away with such display ? / some way like a cheat versus others display online... like Helios, mulstiscreen, warthog and so on... I leave... lOl... it was your birthday... or something special ? Edited March 30, 2011 by C6_Hellfrog
WynnTTr Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 really need of TrackIR with so large screens ? (to look outside) Isn't it too easy to identifiy and see targets far away with such display ? / some way like a cheat versus others display online... like Helios, mulstiscreen, warthog and so on... I leave... lOl... it was your birthday... or something special ? You still need TrackIR because the side monitors only represent your peripheral vision in the form of the fisheye effect. It's like you looking at your monitor right now, your peripheral vision isn't focused and is blurry. If someone came up to your right you'd still turn your head to the right to face them to get them fully into focus. The same with the three monitors. Now if they rendered exactly what would be seen what was on your right then that's a different story and one aspect closer to having a wrap around monitor solution.
Gadroc Posted March 31, 2011 Author Posted March 31, 2011 really need of TrackIR with so large screens ? (to look outside) Isn't it too easy to identifiy and see targets far away with such display ? / some way like a cheat versus others display online... like Helios, mulstiscreen, warthog and so on... I leave... lOl... it was your birthday... or something special ? TrackIR is also needed for vertical tracking. Nothing besides a full cave type video setup will remove the need for TrackIR in a military aircraft simulator. They have bubble canopies and you need to check your six. That being said I have turned down the yaw axis on my TrackIR significantly. The fish eye / aspect ratio is not as bad as WynnTTr makes it sound, but you still need to be able to look back. Cheat is a very strong word. It's no more so than TrackIR vs non TrackIR or HOTAS Warthog vs no HOTAS. Keep in mind that the size of the pixels is the same as a single 46" TV and what is displayed on the front primary screen is the same as with out the two side ones. If I'm scanning for targets it's with TrackIR like before, I'm just more likely to catch things like smoke or tracers out the corner of my eyes.
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