RE: Awesome Sim Racing Seat for your Digital Home

["Gary Tall" <gtcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To be honest Dave motion platforms are not very good.



I'm a long time simracer and have evolved my setup over the last ten years.
I've tried a couple of the motion platforms and the timing is always off to
the graphics. I know that Williams F1 don't use motion because they don't
feel its good enough yet for their simulator. I also know through a friend
who is an F1 engineer that alot of the things we hear about their
simulators
are hype.



It is possible to fool yourself that you have motion though. A triple
screen
setup with the side screens angled at 135 degrees to the centre screen
using
either iRacing's render 3 screen method of rFactors multiview coupled with
TrackIR setup with yaw off and the other 5 degrees of movement set to 1:1
with no deadzone give you the impression of motion with perfect timing.
People who have tried my setup are completely blown away by the immersion
and impression of motion.



You can use the money you save to buy a set of CST pedals which are so much
better than G25/27 pedals as they have pressure sensitive brakes, not
travel
from a potentiometer.



Happy to discuss offlist if you want.



Just for a little bit of HA though I use xAP to monitor for when my
"race"
PC is on and set the lights accordingly via Homevision and Kevin's C-BUS,
HV
and xAP gateway.



Regards

Gary



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Dave McLaughlin
Sent: 10 August 2010 17:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Awesome Sim Racing Seat for your Digital Home





I built mine a few years ago now. Made it from one of the shipping boxes I
had my stuff from the UK sent out in and an old computer table.

Fitted with a G25 wheel, Recaro seat, 32" FULL HD Samsung TV. Picture
here

http://www.altbierbude.de/component/option,com_hotornot2/task,display/idx,15
39/Itemid,31/lang,en/

I only use GT Legends and Rfactor. In my mind, 2 off the best racing sims
out there. Huge online racing fan base so you never have to race a
computer.
Real drivers are more unpredictable and fun.

If you want a motion simulator there are quite few addons out there, but
this one is on my list for the future!!

http://www.bluetiger.com/index.html

Later this year and am going to design and get made up a metal chassis. Too
expensive to ship something out to this part of the world and I get hit
with
up to 30% duty and VAT.

Hope to see some of you online!

Dave.

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On Behalf
Of
Mark McCall
Sent: 10 August 2010 23:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Awesome Sim Racing Seat for your Digital Home

> It needs a butt Kicker on the seat

Yeah, quite a few of them seem to use those.

> Even better, a 4 axis motion platform! I've seen various made out of
windscreen wiper motors!

You watched that video - right? :)

M.

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