FlightGear
1.0 2.0 4.0
Primary Buffer Panel
- đĨī¸ Full 5760x1200 on triple head setup
- đšī¸ X52 Pro as joystick
- đšī¸ Primary Buffer Panel as joystick
- đ§ Head tracking
- đ§ Multi-function display
- đĻ Blinken lights
Sometimes I fire up FlightGear, one of the oldest FOSS games in simulation. Since it’s a native Linux game it runs rather painless.
Thanks to FlightGear I’m very confident that I am now capable of crashing a Cessna just about anywhere.
Head tracking is provided via UDP from a plugin. That’s all explained on https://wiki.flightgear.org/Opentrack and fairly straight forward.
I’m pretty sure that I can connect my plumbing pipeline to FlightGear as well but I never bothered so far. It is after all open source software and many plugins exist already. It’s on my bucket list đ
Launch parameters
--addon=full-path-to-the-headtracker-folder and --generic=socket,in,60,localhost,5542,udp,opentrack for the head tracking. Both can be configured in the FlightGear though.