LOL cheers Richard!!

Initial shot of the collective before it gets covered in filla for sanding! Need to add a little plasticine to a few places. Got a little excited with the file and took too much off!



Cheers

Rich

I hate to sound cruel but it looks like something's taken a huge bite out of a Smurf.


So you cover this with some kind of resin, sand it down smooth and you use it to make a mould?

Sorry to bump up the forum width. Just thought I'd share a close up of the one in our game to compare. Anyone got a close up pic of the real one?

Well im on the right track by the looks of the one from LCH you've posted! Smurf's - now there's a memory!

Basically yes, cover it in Silicone, hollow it out and then cast it in resin and put all the buttons and switches in! Might not be able to make all the switches usuable unless anyone knows of a I/O Board that can take more than 32 button inputs?!? Any pictures of real or 'in simulator' collectives will be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Rich

Game input libraries tend to have a limit of 32 buttons from a single device anyway. Things like the Dpad on the 360 joypad are done using a single axis as input. Just thought I'd mention it.

Ahh rgr! Thanks for that, will stop looking! LOL. In that case will try and get as many in as possible.

In that case, are there any functions on the collective not used in LCH?

But is there really anything stopping you from letting it be several devices (apart from some old games only being able to use one)? I know the G940 is seen as three devices to get around the buttons/axes limit.

Thats a possibility. If its bought as a HOCAS then there will be a board for each, so I guess that some of the inputs that aren't being used from the Cyclic can be used by the collective. Problem solved. Well that was simple, should've thought of that earlier!

Cheers

This board has 50 pins:
http://www.u-hid.com/
But you can only let 32 show up as gamecontroller buttons, the rest can be programmed with keyboard macros.

You can also use multiple boards.

Hi Guys,

Have spent a couple of boring days down at Battersea and have worked out and designed a real force trim system that I can make compact enought to fit in a floor standing Cyclic system. Just waiting for a couple of costings to come in and will get a prototype built and tested!

Depending on work constraints should have a version of it on the Virtual Blade for the Show at Weston-Super-Mare in the UK in May.

Rich

Right, have got some initial costings in for the Force Trim Release. It looks like its going to add around £130-150 onto the cost. This could put the overall price up to near the £400 mark!?!? Is that something that people would be willing to spend on a Cyclic?