Freetrack interface use in IL-2:CoD

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Originally Posted by Strike

Okay, well I have to be honest I have no experience with freetrack, except by reading about how to set it all up and seeing a few youtube vids that, to me, prove it can be quite glitchy. If everybody uses as much time as you to perfect it I can understand you might enjoy it alot! But again, how much did that wiimote cost you? Here it's about half the price of track IR complete setup if you want the nun-chuck. However as interesting as it sounds, one might start speculating if you can use the Kinect camera soon, and drop the IR/reflective parts all together, seeing that microsoft is probably going to drop a SDK for Kinect in the near future. Imagine that, free tracking with ONLY a camera Oh and have you ever tried Track IR? One of its best pros have to be that it's very simple to set up .

Well luckily enough I happened to already have a Wii so i didn't have to buy that sperately. Still if I were to compare the cost of my FT setup vs even TIR4 then the FT setup would be 1/4 of the price.

No, I have not tired trackIR though I do someday intend to when I can afford to buy it. However I feel all these comparisons are pointless - I would expect trackIR to work better than a home solution but that doesn't mean I think developers should favour one over the other.

Originally Posted by Strike

Well, I'm sure Oleg and team are aware of the options to tracking devices, but seeing that the entire commercial world (to my knowledge) has opted for Track IR, I don't see why they would consider adding more options for the release! But I wouldn't worry if I were you guys, there has to be a way to just "emulate" track IR input for CoD, regardless of official support. If you ask me wether to add a better pilot animation, or better effect or a vital bugfix for the first patch, or add freetrack support, I think even freetrack users would opt for the game fixes.

Ideally I would like a standard interface for headtracking as it would save developers time, allow for real consumer choice, stop workarounds or hacks that have appeared since NP encrypted the API and stop the pointless TIR vs FT threads popping up all the time.

Best of all I think headtracking would be supported in more games because there would be more people in support of headtracking asking developers to implement.

I think i'm going to stop now for good, because even i'm starting to repeat myself.

EDIT: WR, i'm not even going to bother responding - same replies from you as the whole way through the thread. "it's a hack, it's a hack, it's a hack" is not an argument. "Prove it's not a hack" is also not an argument as the onus would be for you to prove that it is. Our opinion on this matter differs and it would be pointless for either of us to continue.