Thanks for the effort. It seems to range 3 to 7%. I might have to buy a new web cam...I don't seem to be able to find the one I have. (...nuts!)

I've just made this freetrack thingy and it looks promising.
It's cheap (if you already own some web cam) - only 4 IR diodes, 4 resistors, piece of wire...

The only problem I have is shivering screen in IL2
Maybe it needs some more testing or tweaking .ini file...
Here are some tracks with diferent "Average" value setting in freetrack.ini file

This project seems to be alive and kicking.
http://n.camil.chez-alice.fr/index.php
Up-to-date information - unfortunately it's in French can be found at http://freetrack.online.fr
Has anyone else tried it yet?

Thanks for sharing Tomik and good luck with the tweaking.

What about someone making a small kit and selling it, a little competition would do the Natural Point prices good - from a customers pov.

I will be trying this system as soon as I gather everything together.

Thanks a lot for the headsup.

Cheers

Nico

Nico or anyone else with French skills,
could you please try to translate important parts of Freetrack manual?
http://freetrack.online.fr/fichiers/manuel121.pdf
It will be very helpful.

Sure, so long as you're not asking for anything TOO technical... lol

Which parts would you like me to translate ?

Cheers

Nico

Most important for me is freetrack.ini section and possibly settings (camera + stream) section.
And sure if you find something relevant to IL2...
Many thanks for your effort
Tomik

French web page http://freetrack.online.fr has been automatically translated to English

The english manual.

http://freetrack.online.fr/fichiers/ManualEN.pdf

I am new to this forum.

Just tried Cachya, the new software utility recently mentioned in simhq newsletter.

http://www.simhq.com/news_archive/June25-29-2007.mht

I am very much impressed by its performance. I have two webcam, one 30fps, one 20fps; both are working fine with this program. I also found some other good conmment on the web about this software. It is commercial but worth a try.

http://www.cachya.com