Black Shark with TouchScreen+other stuff

[slimakwielki]

Hello,

Anyone using touchscreen or touchpanel as an addon to this game? I've been searching a while ago diff ways to improve immersive effect to sim and one day found touch buddy soft etc. However I thought that due to having clickable cockpit in that sim it would be good to have touchscreen to interact directly with all switches, knobs etc. So I've ordered one that would match 22" 16:10 LCS and finish my sim setup. I can say that the effects are great and compare to simple mouse-all around-clicking system as so far. Its not difficult as you would think to "aim" for correct-tiny space zone to activate object-its more likely to familiar with TrackIR itself. The only downside is there is no way to interact with SAI knob with touchpanel due to having uncommon way of using a knob (having pressed RMB and turning knob), but thats the only bit I found. Well, having complete setup for DCS Black Shark (including triplehead2go, saitek stuff and VAC) I'm providing a small clip to check the final:

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[JLZ]

Nice setup. Congrats on it :)

 

You could consider moving monitors up, in level with eyes.

[Bucic]

Nice.

[PedroTheGoat]

Wow... Just Wow...

[Steve Davies]

Nice setup :)

 

What make and model is the touchscreen?

 

Cheers

 

Steve

[slimakwielki]

Got it from eBay. There are not to many suppliers tough, so grabbed cheapest 22" (think it came from Irland) - ~60 quid.

[pawel.piotrowski]

Is it really Touch Panel? I can't find any on Ebay. Isn't it just a Touch Screen Monitor? Will that also work? Could you please provide the model you bought? ;-) Many thanks!

Edited May 14, 2010 by pawel.piotrowski

[slimakwielki]

Yes, in fact that is Touch Panel, NOT Touch Screen cause as describe I'm running setup on 3x regular 22" Dell E228WFPc LCDs. Touch Panel is placed on top of screen and below bezel frame. It is connected simply via USB lead. Has great software which support multi monitor setup, ie triplehead2go. I didn't find any point of buying all 3 Touch Panel as mostly in-game we use middle (cockpit view) screen to interact with objects. External LCDs are widely used to have side screen views (of course you are free to move via 6 DOF TrackIR support). I'm providing link to an auction on eBay for all interest:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOUCH-SCREEN-Panel-Kit-WIDESCREEN-22-LCD-FLAT-POS-/260602551720?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_Monitors&hash=item3cad1f5da8

Hope that helps!

Jack

[pawel.piotrowski]

Thank you for the info Slimak! Did you have a lot of configuration stuff to use this thing in BS? Or was it just plug an play and the mappping worked as expected. I am just wondering what would be better, buying a touch monitor or the touch screen... and if the first one will work...

 

Cheers!

Pawel

[slimakwielki]

Hi,

With One Monitor it is plug & play and 30 s calibrating touch panel. With triplehead2go You go advanced and select (graphically and more specific by pixels) "zone" that might become interface as with 5040x1050 You want only [1680-3360]x[0-1050] to achive correct response. There are loads of option idiot-free and setting up panel takes from a minute (one monitor) to few (many monitors)-than You forget about it. BTW: Right Mouse Click is simulated by holding (having pressed) 'cursor' (ie finger) over specific-free to set up time (ie 800ms). Touch Screen and Panel those are same things-both of them will do but Touch Panel is far cheaper and imho more flexi.

Regards (from UK ;)

Jacek

[pawel.piotrowski]

Thank you Jacek for detailed info! I will definitely invest in something like this in the future :) I really like your setup, have fun! :thumbup:

 

Cheers,

Pawel