G-Seat with Orbiter

[Phil Smith]

Hey guys,

Just curious, is it possible to make a g-seat working with Orbiter?
Have some ambitious ideas using that one in my sim pit (which is still being build btw, very slooowly though, updates to follow):
https://bergisons.simpit.info/motion-integrated-g-seat

Theoretically all accelerations values can be extracted from Orbiter sim and send to the seat controller via some driver software. Is there any information regarding this topic? Any help will be much appreciated.

 

[kuddel]

The general setup I would try is something like this:
Write a simple add-on, that reads the acceleration data you need, then transforms them into the data the seat needs:
Something like:

double threshold = 0.001; // or whatever
void SeatInterface::clbkPreStep (double simt, double simdt, double mjd)
{
  static VECTOR3 F_last;
  VECTOR3 F;
  VESSEL vessel = oapiGetFocusInterface(); // checks etc. left out for clarity
  vessel->GetLinearMoment (F);
  // transmitt only if change is big enough, to avoid flooding the seat with noise...
  if ( abs(F_last - F) > threshold) {
    // sanity check to avoid HUGE jumps throw you out of your seat ;)
    // ...and possibly time-limit as well (once every 500 ms e.g.)
    if (is_ok()) {
      transmitToSeatViaUSB(F);
    }
    F_last = F;
  }
}

...that's it
How exactly those "translation" (transmitToSeatViaUSB) works and wether you actually use USB or Serial or IOWarrior or ... is of course just details you have to decide.

 

[Phil Smith]

The general setup I would try is something like this:
Write a simple add-on, that reads the acceleration data you need, then transforms them into the data the seat needs:
Something like:

double threshold = 0.001; // or whatever
void SeatInterface::clbkPreStep (double simt, double simdt, double mjd)
{
  static VECTOR3 F_last;
  VECTOR3 F;
  VESSEL vessel = oapiGetFocusInterface(); // checks etc. left out for clarity
  vessel->GetLinearMoment (F);
  // transmitt only if change is big enough, to avoid flooding the seat with noise...
  if ( abs(F_last - F) > threshold) {
    // sanity check to avoid HUGE jumps throw you out of your seat ;)
    // ...and possibly time-limit as well (once every 500 ms e.g.)
    if (is_ok()) {
      transmitToSeatViaUSB(F);
    }
    F_last = F;
  }
}

...that's it
How exactly those "translation" (transmitToSeatViaUSB) works and wether you actually use USB or Serial or IOWarrior or ... is of course just details you have to decide.

Wow, that sounds promising Thank you Kuddel. Will definitely take a look into it; glad it is not a dead end