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10 INPUT DEVICES
10.1 NATIVE TRACKIR SUPPORT
FalconBMS natively supports the „TrackIR“ headtracking device via its remote interface, which
enables much easier panning. You have to start the Naturalpoint application prior to running
Falcon. Once in the game, you may activate the TrackIR support for 2D and 3D cockpit
seperately in the 'View Control" config settings (please refer to the relevant chapter in this
manual).
You are able to deactivate TrackIR at any time by using the Naturalpoint hotkeys (F9 by default),
or by just breaking the LOS between the TrackIR emitter/receiver and the „dot“ which is tracked
by it. After about 1 second, view control should migrate to the POV keys/keyboard. Once you
enable TrackIR again (or restore LOS between tracker and dot) control should switch
immediately to the TrackIR.
While in the 3d cockpit, panning will work just as with the TIRF4 application (an external program
that enabled TrackIR support for the SP3 executable).
Also added was support for the 2d cockpit. In this mode, the headtracker behaves a bit like a
POV hat, which means that if you look up, the program will emulate an 'up' press on the POV hat.
If you look left, the program will emulate a 'left' POV hat press etc. The repetition rate of these
emulated keypresses can be configured by the g_nTrackIRSampleFreq variable. The units of this
variable is in milliseconds, it defaults to 512 milliseconds (about 2 emulated keypresses per
second). The area where the TIR input will be interpreted as 'POV-press' can be configured as
follows:
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