How do I set up tracknoir? For dummy.

[jimmyjam]

I can't seem to find a video that shows me how to do it in simple language... 

[gabuzomeu]

Hi.

where are you stuck? 

Did you manage to download software, find your camera, have it work outside of il2?

[jimmyjam]

I have camera working, i have a delanclip that the facetracknoir is seeing. What else am i supposed to do? I saw something about changing file types or something...

[JonRedcorn]

Definitely would use opentrack instead of that program, very easy and intuitive.

[jimmyjam]

I started opentrack. It recognised the delanclip and i could see the 3 red cross moving about... no values were changing though... 

[JonRedcorn]

What camera are you using? Make sure your input is pointracker and output is freetrack2.0 You can see 3 bright white leds on the camera? I am not sure what the 3 red crosses mean.

Edited March 6, 2019 by JonRedcorn

[jimmyjam]

ps3 eye with filter over lens. 

[JonRedcorn]

Do you have the right programs selected in input and output>? You have the ps3 eyecam driver that costs like 3 dollars? If you don't see the 3 white led's your cameras not working.

Edited March 6, 2019 by JonRedcorn

[jimmyjam]

Yeah i see the 3 leds. I just want to know how to make it work in game?

I think im suffering from defeatsim.... Maybe ill just go back to console and smash this desktop to pieces. 

[JonRedcorn]

2 hours ago, jimmyjam said:

Yeah i see the 3 leds. I just want to know how to make it work in game?

I think im suffering from defeatsim.... Maybe ill just go back to console and smash this desktop to pieces. 

Well that's not a great attitude to have, so why isn't it working in game, you have open track running when you start it? In the opentrack mapping menu you don't see the dots moving along the axis when you move your head?

 

 

Just follow the steps in that thread. Should work no problem.

 

Also have some patience. No need to rush and get frustrated.

Edited March 6, 2019 by JonRedcorn

[jimmyjam]

Should i get new version?

[jimmyjam]

Ok, got the new one and it worked straight away! Thanks JonRecorn for the reply. I can get a bit childish at times.

[PossumHueCity1968]

Hey, Kid--I posted to your other earlier PS3 Eyecam thread. 

 

I just went through all this stuff myself, so I understand why you're intimidated.  Don't worry--you'll figure it out.

 

First--did you download the 3rd party driver for your camera?  It costs like two bucks--you'd remember if you did.

 

LINK:  https://codelaboratories.com/downloads/

 

If not--go get that driver.

 

The driver comes with a program, CL Eye Test,  so you can test the camera, and adjust the "exposure" of the image being output by the camera.

You adjust the "exposure" with sliders.  The sliders are found in the CL-Eye Test menu Options/Video Capture Filter.  The link to the forum tutorial covers it step by step.  Adjusting the sliders brings the IR dots into crispest, clearest contrast.  Look at the settings in the forum tutorial link for adjusting Gain, Exposure, and White Balance. 

 

After you have set the sliders,  close the Code Labratories driver--the camera is outputting the signal you need.

 

First thing you need to do is calibrate the open track program.

 

Open Opentrack--you're looking at the Pink Octopus and the phrase TRACKING NOT STARTED. 

 

First header reads: Input = Pointtracker 1.  Click the hammer (tools) to the right.

Set the PS3 camera specs to the numbers in the tutorial. (I use the BLUE/56 degree (zoomed) field of view).

OK--now click the MODEL tab--and input the physical dimensions of your the DELAN clip's LED's.

Go to the first page of Opentrack and click START. 

Now the program is tracking, you can see your LED's moving in the black box.

OK--now back on the MODEL tab, just beneath where you input the physical dimensions of your Delan Clip, click START CALIBRATION--and move your head smoothly left and right six or ten times, then click STOP CALIBRATION. 

 

Now the program can figure out where the axis your head pivots on is located. 

 

Go to the Mapping tab, and set your graphs more or less to what has been recommended in the tutorial linked above.

 

You'll want to tweak the axis translations and add dead zones to suit your preferences--the linked thread tutorial gives good models.

 

OK--now Opentrack understands how your head moves, and how to translate that into "head" movement in the game.

 

From the Opentrack toolbox with the pink Octopus, click on OPTIONS.

 

See the tab labelled Game Detection.

 

In the Executable box, type il-2.exe, and under Profile,  use the default .ini file (which ought to be the calibration and mapping data you just input).

 

So your headset is calibrated.  Now you can open the game.  The game ought to automatically recognize the stream of data Opentrack is providing. 

 

As you play for awhile you're probably going to need to tweak the Opentrack mapping a bit--I put in HUGE dead zones in the mapping graph so my head wasn't constantly moving all over the place, and to quickly re-zero my view I bound the Center command to a VERY accessible key on my joystick (click Options and  the tab Shortcuts). 

 

You'll also develop preferences in wanting to sometimes "lock" your view so you can concentrate on your gunsights, make your shots, then "unlock" your view so you can look around and check your six.

 

Anyhow--that ought to get you rolling.

 

All the best.

49 minutes ago, jimmyjam said:

Ok, got the new one and it worked straight away! Thanks JonRecorn for the reply. I can get a bit childish at times.

lol.  I just missed your post and spent like an hour typing those instructions.

 

lol.

 

Glad to hear you got sorted.

 

All the best.

[jimmyjam]

No it wasn't quite sorted as i hadnt set it up properly and it was working but poorly. All of what you have sent me is going to make setting up easier. One thing is that I use a 32' TV as a monitor and it is maybe 2 metres or more from my head and setting camera up on something closer is a bitch... Was thinking of hanging camera from ceiling xD

[PossumHueCity1968]

You can actually put the camera wherever you want--as long as the LED's are pointed straight at the camera lens (wherever you decide to place it) the tracking will happen.

 

If you put the camera on the desk a couple feet in front of you and angle the 3 LED diodes down, and the camera lens angling upward, it will still be capturing the same relative motion.

[jimmyjam]

I have a g27  wheel mounted on a saw horse i made in high school that i placed the camera on a stack of PS1 games to height just under my TV and it seems to work very well!!! Thank you to everyone who helped me through my drunken sometimes angry posts... Long live IL-2!!!