troshto Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Seems the only way to get this to work is by binding freetrack to a virtual joystick axis? Or, at least that what I gleam from reading the forums. Will DCS A-10 support freetrack's head tracking protocol in the near future? ...from what i understand people have been using TrackIrFixer to hack some DLL to make it work, but it's only working for 32bit versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nate--IRL-- Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 To Explain that post a bit further, in order for ED to use the Naturalpoint encrypted TIR API (Basically for DCS to support TIR) Naturalpoint made it part of the legal agreement for the NP API that ED could not support any other head tracking APIs. So the choice is TIR support and no Freetrack support, or No TIR support and Freetrack support. Nate Ka-50 AutoPilot/stabilisation system description and operation by IvanK- Essential Reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boberro Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) Fortunately after tweaking one DLL it is possible to use FreeTrack :D Go away NP! About APIs, doesn't FreeTrack use its own API too? Don't know how it was solved in Arma 2 but I got rumours they accepted FT and TiR. Edited May 1, 2011 by Boberro Reminder: Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY! :D | Also to be remembered: FRENCH TANKS HAVE ONE GEAR FORWARD AND FIVE BACKWARD :D ಠ_ಠ ツ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuky Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) To Explain that post a bit further, in order for ED to use the Naturalpoint encrypted TIR API (Basically for DCS to support TIR) Naturalpoint made it part of the legal agreement for the NP API that ED could not support any other head tracking APIs I feel that instead of blocking competition they should continue making better product and let consumer make a choice on what they want to buy/have Edited May 1, 2011 by Kuky No longer active in DCS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) About APIs, doesn't FreeTrack use its own API too? Don't know how it was solved in Arma 2 but I got rumours they accepted FT and TiR. BI is a much bigger player than ED, i guess they basically coerced NP to comply. Btw. a friendly advice, don't turn this into a NP flame, or the mods will eat you alive. :) Edited May 1, 2011 by sobek Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troshto Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 lol I'm not scared of mods, they'll just delete my post? And I understand supporting one product over another, I just wish I knew this up front b/f dropping $60 on a product thats somewhat unplayable w/o headtracking... I mean, if I could somehow bind view states states to certain keys so I could actually read whats on the MFDs that'd be awesome. But for now I'm frantically pressing RCtrl + Shift + numpad 3 and/or numbad * while flying and/or avoiding getting shot down. And don't get me wrong, I love the game so far. I'm just struggling w/the controls ALOT. ...and another complaint is that the manual seems very catered to a HOTAS setup. Why can't they put the equivalent keyboard commands in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troshto Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 ...and another complaint is that the manual seems very catered to a HOTAS setup. Why can't they put the equivalent keyboard commands in there? So I did a little further digging and notices that the quickstart and short manuals totally have the keyboard commands so that makes things a little easier. And I thought more about the lack of freetrack support and I guess it's okay; as long as ED is getting some sort of support for NP - hopefully making it easier for them to create more sims :) A compatible tank sim or bomber sim would be interesting... :P (I mean, how many other software company's out there are making comparable products??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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