[simpits-tech] F4 MFDs

[Erwin Neyt]

No Ido, 

This little trick is not implemented in SP3.

Erwin.

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> From: Ido Dekkers [mailto:idekkers@clicksoftware.com] 
> Sent: dinsdag 21 mei 2002 10:01
> To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
> Subject: RE: [simpits-tech] F4 MFDs
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> 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,
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> 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).
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> 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
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