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My HOTAS desk mount is shared on Printables here: https://www.printables.com/model/1280188-logitech-x56-hotas-desk-mount

FreeCAD file provided, if you want to modify it. Let me know if you do, I'd love to see your ideas of how it can be improved.

#3dprinting #hotas #gaming #spacesim #elitedagerous

Had a decent session of #ARMA Reforger MP last night. Public server, PVE Conflict. Had a rough start, but ended up with a group who found a free helicopter, and none of them could fly. *My moment had come.* Got them in the air, scouted the objective, put it down and led the charge to a successful capture.

I still need to get my #HOTAS working with Reforger, but the Steam Controller is good enough for now.
#LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #MilSim

Unboxed the #VKB Space Throttle last night. Seems like a very nice piece of kit. Beefy, sturdy, lots of buttons. Did some calibration checks and gave it a quick test in #EliteDangerous , and made note of what I'll need to modify on my mounting system. Might get the mount sorted out tonight, and start configuring it tomorrow night.
#HOTAS #HOSAS

Today I took apart my Thrustmaster T16000M HOTAS, both the stick and the throttle. Nasty jumpy drift on both stick yaw and throttle analog stick. Fixed with some alcohol cleaning.

Thank goodness Thrustmaster designed these in a way that you can disassemble them to atoms and put it all back together without breaking anything but your warranty terms. So many people have said that these last for maybe 50 hours, but I'm well over 200 hours in already.

#Thrustmaster #HOTAS #Gaming #EliteDangerous

Ace Combat 7 with FULL SBS on PC? And head tracking? Hell yes :D

So bear with me if I mix something up, this is all news to me and I’m still flabbergasted. I got myself some XR glasses mostly for watching movies and perhaps some gaming on the Steam Deck a while ago.

Now I learned about “SBS” (Side-By-Side) mode like ~3 days ago, that the glasses support. I tried this with the game Elite Dangerous first, since this has an SBS mode built in too, and was mind blown. My current favourite time stink is Ace Combat though so I started digging.

Turns out there is this Reshade tool that would forcefully enable such a mode for basically any game with the right shader. Several exist but the first I found, “SuperDepth3D.fx”, seems to do the trick. Enabling it split the 1920×1024 in half with two slightly different view ports, one for each eye. There are many options to fine tune this and I’m still fiddling with this to find the perfect settings but results look great already.

My glasses do Full SBS though and have a resolution of 3840×1024. I read somewhere that wide-screen is possible with more DLL shenanigans with Ace Combat 7 too but I run the game on a Linux PC anyway, where we utilise a tool named “gamescope”. This allows basically to configure a virtual display for each game and override the game resolution in various ways. It also has a stretch option, which is exactly what I needed to get the “compressed” SBS view from 1920 to 3840, where the aspect ratio would fit again. BTW: This also has FSR built in so any upscaling looks good enough too. I’m not entirely sure but I think there’s a similar tool on Windows called “Virtual Deskop”?

Anyway, I already managed to get my head tracker working by mapping the output to a virtual gamepad on the look-around axes before. I also found a mod that enables a wider FOV. Imagine my stupid grinning when everything fell into place: Full SBS with head tracking, a more sane FOV and yes, I jumped all the hoops to get my HOTAS and rudder pedal of my old ViperPit working (which is a different story because my devices are so old that I had to upgrade em to USB before, which involved some Arduinos, programming and soldering). I guess that makes me a member of multiple niches at once 🤓

And since I’m aware that nobody can “see” what I’m talking about, without having XR glasses or a VR headset (or a DIY VR Box for smart phones) on their own, have also an Anaglyph 3D render. This requires just some old school two coloured (red and cyan) glasses often made of paper, that many people still have around somewhere, to get an idea.

The colour of the sky? It’s perfect. A deep dark blue.

Update: There is now video footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NckLvP1HBGw

This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/01/21/ace-combat-7-with-full-sbs-on-pc-and-head-tracking-hell-yes-d/

#AceCombat #AR #gamescope #gaming #gamingonlinux #homeCockpit #hotas #linux #linuxgaming #Reshade #SBS #simpit #ViperPit #Viture #ViturePro #VR #XR

#VoiceAttack #FPS_VR #SIM_racingwheel #HOTAS #Desktop+ #XSOverlay #OVR_Advanced_Settings #TurnSignal #CableGuardian #BigScreenBeta #elite_vr_cockpit #voiceattack_com #HereSphere #NaturalLocomotion #Vrperfkit #vorpx #VirtualDesktop #GameVRoom #Revive #ALVR

Überlegte ob/wie ich mir mal wieder ein Setup für #Flugsimulation am Sofa zusammenstöpseln sollte…

Und wenn ja, hol ich den Thrustmaster #HOTAS vom Dachboden, oder bau ich lieber auf der #TaranisQX7 auf?

Für's Sofa wäre die #Taranis vermutlich sogar bequemer? IDK?

Thrustmaster Hotas neben Bildschirmen und selbstgebautem Maus/Trackball/Terminal für Thunderbolt-Anschluss

Got some help carrying the #ViperPit from the basement into my man cave today and since I got the peripherals operational again already, and got Ace Combat 7 on a sale, which seemed to be a good fit, I decided to play that first:
https://makertube.net/w/wiKFYNPaKhhCmrrz3aGLYb / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPK0lHX_3s

Little did I know what a pain in the neck it would be to get this running. No, Linux wasn’t the problem. That was just Press Play, as usual.

There is however no settings menu for #HOTAS joysticks so any mapping has to be done by manually editing the `Input.ini` of the game in an text editor, which is a guessing game. Head tracking is also a no go. I pulled the old trick to map the head tracker to a virtual XBOX controller but the game comes with an annoying deadzone where the camera snaps to the center.

Ah well, got it all working okay-ish in the end and enjoyed some pew pew in the skies. There seem to be plenty of #Macross mods too so trying that will be next 🤘

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/12/26/playing-ace-combat-7-with-viture-pro-xr-glasses-in-my-viperpit/

#AceCombat #gaming #gamingonlinux #homeCockpit #hotas #linuxgaming #macross #simpit #ViperPit #Viture #ViturePro

A jet next to a huge explosion in the sky. Two smaller images depict the perspective of the pilot and the player sitting inside a ViperPit playing the game with XR glasses.

https://makertube.net/w/bufv9BJv2vcXDb3KUaksB7 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpP7KS1fbrY

`@ozoned` interviewed me on my home cockpit on a live stream via his #Owncast instance at https://stream.ozoned.net/. This is a more condensed version of the stream that is still just 1h shy. We’re going over almost every feature of my Primary Buffer Panel and I explain how everything works. I also decided to add various photos, slideshows or video snippets during the talk only sections so things don’t get too boring. Sometimes that even complements the talks 😄

Ever wondered how to start your own DIY #homeCockpit / #SimPit on? It’s easy. Just watch this stream 🤓

Dedicated project website: https://SimPit.dev

Check out the original recording if you want to see more or the full stream with more [dirty] details: https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/9zNcweVw2fxxpSrmBnaQJa

#Gaming #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #EliteDangerous #X4Foundations #StarCitizen #HOTAS #HOSAS

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/12/18/interview-in-depth-walkthrough-of-my-primary-buffer-panel/

#EliteDangerous #gaming #gamingonlinux #homeCockpit #HOSAS #hotas #linuxgaming #Owncast #simpit #StarCitizen #x4foundations

I just wanted to share how bizarre a product my #Winwing 16EX (ViperAce) joystick is.

In order for the integrated vibration motor to function, you’re required to purchase an additional plastic module that fastens to the top left of the stick. It features a 5-way HAT and a 2-axis stick with push.

The module itself contains no vibration motor. Just the chip that controls the motor inside the stick. My guess is that they couldn’t fit the chip inside the stick itself. It’s a ridiculous design.

On the other hand, they’re using a cheap switch to give the trigger a “click”. Brilliant honestly.

With the module attached the vibration from within the stick itself will only work when the Winwing SimAppPro software is running in the background, which includes the default (and customizable) vibration settings for aircraft of various flight sims like #DCSWorld, #BMS, and #MSFS.

The vibration isn’t force feedback but it does vary in how it vibrates with different aircraft in a way that’s pleasant and intuitive to the touch. This goes for all their products featuring vibration motors.

Pulling high AoA in a Mirage F1? It’ll vibrate aggressively.

Launching a Sparrow in an F/A-18C? It’ll give a short gentle vibration as the missile comes off the rail.

Vortex Ring State setting in while hovering your Mi-24? It’ll start buffeting against your hand with increasing intensity.

If you don’t care about vibration and don’t want SimAppPro running in the background, then don’t bother with the additional “shaker” module. It doesn’t “add” a whole lot.

Despite the stupid design, it’s a great product. I’ve had no issues over the past few months of use.

#HOTAS

Interior side of Winwing “Shaker” module, showing a small square window with a red cable sticking out. This plugs into the top left of the joystick.

Winwing “Shaker” module plugged into the top left port of the 16EX stick.

Interior of the Winwing “Shaker” module showing various sensors, connectors, and chip boards. An isolated white and black electronic switch is glued to the plastic housing to provide a tactile, audible “click” to the second additional trigger the module provides.

Well, this is it. I’ve achieved greatness and far exceeded my own expectations.

#f16 #hotas #dcs #flightsim

An F-16 inspired flight sim setup with an F-16 ICP, a pair of MFDs with screens, a throttle and joystick clamped to a white desk, and rudder pedals under the desk.

Chilling. Being a cat. Living his best life as I fly.

#catsofmastodon #hotas

Maine coon lying on a table top calmly squinting at the camera from behind my F-16 throttle and computer speaker.

Sorry y’all, can’t join the sim session. Cat says no.

#CatsOfMastodon #meow #hotas

Cat on a black swivel chair meowing at the camera with my computer desk and HOTAS behind them.

Using DPDT "gearbox" as a time warp switch on my space console

https://peertube.tv/videos/watch/5053d01e-c579-4b54-8192-dfce00531a80

I'm back on my #arduino #HOTAS bullshit. My new project will include two Arduinos connected with i2c.

Mega will gather tens of digital button inputs and handle all the interference from terrible soldiering and weird connections.

Leonardo will handle a few analog inputs, get all the delicious button data from Mega and emulate the joystick

See it in action here:
https://peertube.tv/w/e9u4XD15pT7necuYT7aBxN

Mighty chuffed with the space I’ve made for myself. This was unthinkable to me a couple of years ago and now I have an engaging setup that will last me a long time. I couldn’t be happier. Looking forward to learning more about the planes I fly in DCS and having all sorts of fun in MSFS.

#hotas #desksetup