[simpits-tech] F4 MFDs

[Ido Dekkers]

Erwin, will the "little dirty trick" work on nVidia card with SP3 ? if so
is there a chance that you will get it working,
I'm quite sure most of us will buy new card for this to work.

Thanks

Ido


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Albert,

I have a 107 version of F4 which has MFD data in shared memory. What I did
is render the (four) MFD's off screen and memcopied them to shared memory.
Pretty straight forward. I added a compression algorithm to F4 Data Mirror
to send the MFD images to another PC, where the can be displayed with F4
Glass (any size).

When F4UT started, eRazor did the port to DX7, which meant I lost the
ability to render off screen. There is a little dirty trick I could do but
it only works on nVidea graphic cards, and I never got it working.

I did hope eR would do the DX8 implementation, but that never made it. In
DX8 things are a bit simpler to do, but this will probably have to wait
till FV. I am talking with G2I and I hope they will adopt some of my ideas
to expand the sh.mem support. The MFD's were not the only items on my wish
list: I want full two directional data exchange. One of which is switch
state support instead of switch events, which is what we currently use (and
will solve the switch sync problem).

I also hope they (G2I) will work on a wideview solution, allowing more than
one OTW. I know they are interested in all the above features, but only
time will tell if they ever will be realized.

F4UT (SP) is almost done (as is the public src code development), and from
here we'll need to wait (at least) several years for FV, so we need to be
very patient. But I will do further R&D to aid G2I in getting these things
in place.

Erwin.

BTW. Last year (and this year) I have been very busy working on my house
(including the new sim room), and I hope I can start pit construction next
year.
 -----Original Message-----
 From: A L B E R T [mailto:shizznit@ihug.com.au]
 Sent: maandag 20 mei 2002 17:25
 To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
 Subject: [simpits-tech] F4 MFDs

 Erwin, Robert, Martin and other F4 share memory experts.

 I was flying tonight using Panther's beta cockpit which resemble very much
 like Xis' pit. It has a down down view where it only shows 2 LARGE MFDs
 with a small upfront view above, RWR, and DED info. By clicking to the
 right or left of that view, the player can enter into a Tactical reference
 section or Runway tucan info pages. If you dont know what I am talking
 about. let me know I will email u a screenshot.

 I was flying with the Mavericks, and looking through the camera view in my
 right MFD when all of the sudden, it strikes me that...hey...this feels
 very similar to the actual MFD size!!! So I got the ruler out and took one
 of my front dash panel with the MFD cut out to see if I was right.
 Unfortunately, the MFD on my screen is slightly bigger. However, would f4
 glass or F4 instrucment allow the possiblity of extracting raw 2D cockpit
 data out into a client machine which inturns render the view?

 This way, we can have ourselve some MFDs in the cockpit?

 Just an idea...I am not expert at this stuff, but really would like to see
 MFD support for the cockpit.

 Cheers,

 Albert
 Sydney, Australia