[simpits-tech] Interesting news on the EECH front

[Timothy James Boldt]

The idea sounds cool!! 

Although, as someone who HAS a pit designed around EECH, let me say that
the data exported using CommServer allows for MFD data and warning light
status' to be exported. This lets you use a 2nd monitor for the MFDs and
lets you design UDPSpeed type overlays of the warning lights. 
Or, hopefully port the data into SIOC and trigger the lights with an
OpenCockpits boards. (Which is what I'm trying to do with it.)

What EECH doesn't export (and what would be needed for this to work) is
the ability to display multiple views at one time.....Sadly, this is not
possible.

Tim



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[mailto:simpits-tech-bounces at simpits.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sikkema
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Subject: [simpits-tech] Interesting news on the EECH front


Just a little blurb here from the Enemy Engaged: Commanche vs Hokum
development list. Someone out there with an eye towards simpit 
development is working on a very nifty idea for using trackIR and
multiple monitors to make a very immersive setup. He explains it 
better than I could:

>The idea of my project is to render an image to the monitor as if it 
>were a window into the 3d game world rather than a traditional 
>flattened view. In other words the monitor image would be dependent on 
>the angle at which you view the screen (that's where freetrack/trackir 
>comes in). If you view the screen from the right or left, then the 3d 
>view frustum would be skewed to the right or left and thus enclose the 
>proper volume in the 3d game world. If it works properly, it means a 
>giant leap in cockpit building immersion. Let's say I build a fully 
>enclosed and to scale cockpit with switches and buttons and all that 
>jazz. Instead of having one monitor at the front of the cockpit or a 
>projector screen outside, I replace each cockpit window with an lcd 
>screen. This project would allow those monitors to display images 
>appropriate to your head position (not orientation) on each of the lcd 
>screens. Thus, leaning to the left side of the cockpit would cause the 
>left side lcd to display a large fov, the right side lcd to display a 
>small fov, and the front (and top I guess) lcd to display an image with

>a view frustum skewed to the right. This would completely eliminate the

>traditional lack of peripheral vision that inhibits simulation games. 
>It may also make you sick to the stomach, but that's what I want to 
>find out. Anyways, maybe none of that made any sense at all...but what 
>do you think, sound cool?

It's just great to see some of the developers there are working towards
the simpit world. :) I know EECH already supports data 
export, not sure how much, though.

Brian

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