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I will give this a go. I always liked the mouselook with IL2 1946.

I have TrackIR v4 but do not like it as I get a stiff neck as I like to look around eveery where for some reason when playing any game. When I try to use TrackIR I find I have to force myself to just keep looking forward. I am probably the only person who sufers from this with TrackIR so this may be good for me.

Regards
MarkL

markl I think you need to dramatically increase the "speed" slider in TrackIR. or you could try someone's profile. Really you should only have to turn your own head maybe 5 degrees to turn it 90 in sim!.

There are some great profiles on their official site..I use one designed for FSX..and it works a treat!

markl, here's a link to a post with profiles by elephant and me.
Try those, before you give up.

http://combatace.com/topic/78203-trackir-profiles/#entry623283

The profiles go to:

NaturalPoint > TrackIR5 > profiles

If you found the right one, make sure to tick the box: "Exclusive";
otherwise TrackIR will give you a different one with each new start.

Yeah, getting TIRViews.dll is the most difficult part of the setup

I want to add more settings and maybe even remake the tool to be a plug-in for FaceTrackNOIR (to avoid starting it as separate app). Not sure when I'll get to make it though.

Jeez Ankor, I thought you had a copy. If I had know that and what you have done for WOFF so far, I would have donated one to you myself! You deserve it!!

That was back in December
Of course I bought it long ago, how else could I have done all this modding?

I made this mouse look thingy before I bought WOFF because I considered the inability to control cockpit view with a mouse (or more importantly for me with a joystick axis) to be the main obstacle for enjoying the game. So I took my copy of Phase 3 (which I bought earlier that year just to see what it is) and started experimenting to make sure I am ready for WOFF

Thanks for the reply Ankor..look forward to whatever you can do with the mouse look tool. It's a nice feature.

AnKor, Thanks for doing this mod. I am waiting on OFF3 (which I've just bought from 'dutch'), and had been wondering if it had mouse look. Now I know it doesn't. Hope my rather feeble brain can get mouse-look working.

very cool AnKor.....your adds are out-effing-standing!!! thx!!!

...I just tried it. It's absolutely wonderful!! Many thanks for figuring out a solution! I use a trackball to look around, with one hand, and the joystick to fly with the other. Awesome stuff!

Harry

hello sorry to resurrect this old thread but anyone have a link for MouseTrack.20131213.zip in the first post? i have WOFF 1 and i'd like to try it (i know the new woff edition has it build in but nevertheless i want to try it on my old woff installation) thank you!

Here it is https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvmtwF9vPtwVgcRLdoiPGZfZDIUX7w?e=SN4DTM
I haven't used it for ages, though

thank you i'll try it just for the experiment, but i think i have a problem with the Facetracknoir, it disables my joysticks hat switch for some reason, i assume facetracknoir connects to 127.0.0.1 localhost? anyway i'll figure it out bye

If I remember correctly Facetracknoir puts some false joysticks in device manager joy1 etc you may need to disable those.

I tried the program with Facetracknoir and it works but the movement is choppy/jerky not good (i tried many settings and filters but still), on the other side with the OpenTrack software it works perfect and it's smooth, Opentrack works great! but you get a little dizzy panning on all directions from what i see :P

Polivski i removed the vjoy's but still the hat switch when you are in cockpit doesn't work but on external cameras works (i will done some more tests to see again).

I don't remember details, but maybe the mouselook is too sensitive causing jerky movement. It was my first tool made even before the original WOFF release and personally I haven't even used it much

When the game receives TrackIR input (or its emulation) it ignores hat switch or keyboard POV controls.
Newer versions of WOFF with built-in mouse look don't suffer from this issue.

this util is usefull and for other games too if you want to emulate trackir with mouse , opentrack have settings to adjust sensitivity by curves etc... it's not automatic but i think you can do it if you spend time .
Propably will update woff but have an eye and for Wings: Over The Reich but waiting for a little more content first.

We need support for WOTR and WOFF, if everyone waits, then we will not make money to support more content. Rather than just aircraft there's already a TON of campaign content, AI content and features especially added for BoB.

True and personally i try to support independent devs who like what they do instead of large corporations to the extent that i can at the present moment ofcourse cause there are many things which get in the way , and to tell the truth WOFF was the most expensive sim i have ever bought only dcs come close cause i got 1-2 planes addons then stopped, but i don't fly much nowdays so i can't justify it without having proper hardware like trackir and nice rudder pedals along with a good hotas system.