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Originally Posted by Strike
Freetrack (to my knowledge) is a free "hack" that tries to simulate the inputs of "Track IR" by using your average webcam. I believe that freetrack is not accurate enough to produce the 6DOF experience we get with TrackIR and so I see no reason for game developers to use their time to add support for freetrack! TrackIR works GREAT with games that support this, but as far as goes for freetrack, I think it is better that the freetrack guys write their own stuff for IL-2: CoD and take responsability to make it compatible, rather than putting the work on Oleg. Just my opinion..
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All freetrack does with older games that don't have the encrypted NP api is input values into the game the same way as TrackIR. It does the exact same thing as a generic joystick the only difference being that the HT interface was orginally designed for TrackIR (as it was the only HT device at the time). This imo is not so much a hack but falls under fair usage as there is no other way to interface with the headtracking in these older games.
Even if you think the previous implementation was a 'hack' developers are free to use the freetrack api - This way is definately NOT a hack as if it were no other developer would have implemented it.
I would like to know if you have used freetrack? If you have you may have had bad experiences but with the right setup I can assure you that it is quite impressive and i've had no issues with the quality of the setup (using wii remote at 100fps and a clip I spent a good amount of time perfecting).
The devs do not need to spend any considerable amount of time to implement freetrack as headtracking is already set up, all they need to do is allow access to a few bits of data.
As said before in this thread, the guys that write freetrack don't have to do anything. Freetrack is available for anyone to implement it, everything is there and all it needs is for devs to accept data from it, the program does the rest. It is for us, the FT users or community to try and convince the developers that there is enough demand for it to be worth their time (and it really wouldn't take a lot of time).