Freetrack interface use in IL-2:CoD

[Wolf_Rider]

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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.

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and that was the beginning of the problems... Ft made use of NP property

Originally Posted by vicinity

It does the exact same thing as a generic joystick

nooo, it doesn't. MS allows the use of "generic joysticks, much the same as mice and keyboards.

Originally Posted by vicinity

the only difference being that the HT interface was orginally designed for TrackIR (as it was the only HT device at the time).

the HT interface is NP property

Originally Posted by vicinity

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.

it is a hack and not "free use" (see Berne convention) "Free use" is allowed when the source isn't financially affected.

Originally Posted by vicinity

Even if you think the previous implementation was a 'hack' developers are free to use the freetrack api -

No problem there, except FT is a hack tool - which is the problem.

Originally Posted by vicinity

This way is definately NOT a hack as if it were no other developer would have implemented it.

so FT went the route of hacking NP


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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.

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Np is already set up, which FT makes use of

Originally Posted by vicinity

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).

Then there should be no problem with the FT developer/s to present a clean product, which can't hack into NP software, eh?