TrackIR

[epsilonion]

I am wondering if it would be possible to include TrackIR as a module of the skyline engine?
This system is used by simulation, serious gamers and has been adopted by some of the big AAA companies (titles such as the Arma games, flight simulators, driving games, combat games and simulators in general).

It allows you to move your head and the free camera turns to where you are looking in your games with up to 6 points of reference (DOF), apparently the SDK is really easy to implement and I think it would be a unique selling point for Skyline..

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/

[SolarPortal]

yeah, would be good to implement. Just did some quick research on it though and they are apparently very secretive and protective over the SDK as it exposes some propriety information for them. Which means they want you to sign an NDA and send it back to them before they release the SDK to you. It makes it awkward for open source software to integrate it but we are not open source Since it would be an integration into the engine. The .h and .lib files would not be exposed to the end user meaning we might have a good usage case where we could get the SDK for skyline.

I will contact them over the next few weeks and see what we can do

Plus again, with this sort of thing. We need the hardware to know the integration is working rather than releasing buggy code that might or might not work.
We are happy to do these sorts of integrations if someone can provide the hardware, but we don't have the equipment or funds lol

Good idea though

[epsilonion]

lol I know what your talkign about with limited to none funds I am in the same boat here.

I do have a trackIR unit I use for Arma 2, Arma 3, X-plane and many other games, This would be perfect for them to get more games out there that use trackIR and has the potential to boost there sales of the hardware.

I must admit I love playing games with it as it increases the overall quality of the games I play..

[SolarPortal]

If we do find a way of doing it, then i am sure this is a good possibility for skyline