Thanks so much for this! Brand new to DCS, was using VR at first but the quality/fps downgrade was too much. Switched to head tracking using the neuralnet tracker, but it was so jittery. This is SO much smoother, solved all my problems!
Hey man, was wondering how did you make the ai track recognise the cam. I'm streaming the image through OBS but it doesn't seem to catch it neither does it when i use raw PS eye with drivers installed (of course).
Thank you for this! This is a game changer compared to using the joystick on my flight stick! I definitely have a lot of tuning to do but man this really enhances the game and now I don't feel the need to get TrackIR so soon! Also that Steam chat notification at 9:03 messed with me haha. I was checking my Steam wondering where the message went lmao.
Great explanation. I've been struggling with this for a long time and just gave up trying to figure it out until I came by this one. Thanks to this it is now working and just needs some adjustments. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for taking the time to produce this content, its really appreciated as i am new to DCS. I downloaded your config and used without making any adjustments, itsreally super sensitive in comparison to what clearly demonstrate in the video. I wondered if there was a setting somewhere that i may have missed in DCS?
just stumbled over this video... I used opentrack without AITrack so far, but it seems with AITrack it works better and is less "jittery"... many thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for the information, although most of them I managed to find out on my own. What I haven't been able to find, and nobody explains on their video, is how to setup DCS to accept input from Open Track! Hundreds of settings and menus, why everybody think it is so easy? And if it is, why is so hard to add 10 seconds video with the guide?
Difference between Yaw and x is that Yaw reacts to head rotation horizontally, X reacts to moving aside (can be useful in motorbike sims), you can see the difference when disabling everything and leaving only Yaw, then leaving only X
@@aaponiemela6521 How big it is zooming in your DCS. I have setting Z axe - imput 10cm - output 300 cm and zooming in DCS is just few. Zoom with keynoard is much more.
Guys you shouldn't need to do all of this. You don't even need AITrack. Just set your input to "neuralnet Tracker" and choose the correct camera. Output setting is the same and re-map as necessary. Your welcome :)
Just leaving this here in case someone finds this in 2024. You can use opentrack on the computer and FreePIE IMU on a phone to use the accelerometer and magnetometer of the phone to do headtracking, it's more precise than image based. Just use a couple of rubber bands to secure the phone to headphones and you're good.
Has anyone had issues with AITrack crashing windows when you launch DCS? The application runs fine until I launch DCS. Can launch DCS and as soon as AITrack is open it crashes windows.
Any idea why it doesent respond to my Game (Elite Dangerous) It works in theorie, i could make all the settings, and the Squid is moving how i want to. but i somehow cant make it run ingame. 🤔
At about two minutes of flight any usb-connected device to my PC shuts down, including my webcam, and resets. Doesn't happen any other time unless I run AITrack and OpenTrack.
Hi i could missed some details. With it's setting capacity am i able to see my 48inch tv screen if i try full turn back while flying ? Can i adjust this sensivity easily ?
XYZ will change the actual position of your head in the cockpit. For example if you shift your head to the left, your pilots head will be touching the canopy. Z, conversely is for if you lean closer to the camera, it's like zooming into the instrument panels, etc.
Absolutely amazing! Made it work without complications and it's doing a good-ish job with a pretty old webcam so i assume it would be much better with a good webcam :D Also i dont know if anyone had mentioned it but the X Y Z are i think for moving closer and further from the camera and something else along those lines...
Not sure about that. x= left and right. Y is up and down and z is in out or further and closer. Sometimes in 3D z and y will be switched. I think the 3D program Blender is like that. Maybe pitch, roll and yaw settings are general settings and the x,y,z, settings are more precise settings or they could be fine tuning settings for the pitch, roll and yaw. I have some self taught knowledge on 3D graphics but this is a guess on those controls. I have fooled around with both these programs and have never fooled with these controls either. I am 100% sure there is an answer out there if someone wants to take the time to research it. I most likely will research it sometime, but doubtful it will be today!
Hey there, great video. Just one question, perhaps you know: how well does it work with one screen? I imagine turning your head to the other monitor with this is great, but is it all that useful with just one screen?
Man i don't know how to thank you!, i am a ps4 controller player in dcs with the f 16 viper and it was a pain to shot with the aim 9x in bore , now, i always lock my aim 9 ! Edit: Yes this works, but after a while you get frustrated because it's not perfect, i eventualy bought the TIR 5 and i can say beats opentrack 100 to 1. I ddin't buy the Trackclip pro but i will soon since it gives you more freedom of head movement.
Pretty cool. Seems to absolutely hate my glasses. Not a huge issue for me since I only plan to play DCS on flat screen while learning the modules, I have VR for more serious play.
@@dannyfinnett I don't think so, I think I always had some rare jittering when looking around. Maybe messing with the priority of the app in task manager helps but I doubt it
@@panickal ok, I did stay up untill like 2 doing it yesterday so my memory is a bit dodgy, but I did manage to get it working pretty well. I only had jittering when I messed with the Z axis for some reason, but when I reset it it when back to normal. I've got lots of tuning to do to make this viable, rn it's very sensitive.
WAHAHAHAHA! Me too. But I'm about to try it because I want to see how is to play on flat screen - I started to play DCS with VR. Is crazy to spend $200 on trackit!
For me it does not work at all. I installed C++ libraries Then both programs I see the software tracking properly on preview. In game, when I click rescan devices I see TrackIR plugged and immediately TrackIR unplugged. Is there an option to assign this software to be the input device?
sorry to hear that -- I didn't need to touch anything in game for it to work. If the preview is fine, maybe you should post this on the DCS forum to see how to do that in-game
great video! problem for me is when i look up, my camera faces down, and when i look down, my camera goes up. This is kinda annoying so i look up and down at the moment. Any fixes?
In opentrack click options go to ouput tab and click the checkbox under invert next to pitch and that will fix it. was also going nuts trying to figure it out
It could be your webcam, or try sitting further away from the camera as I mentioned. If none of those work, it is still very early access software so some issues can't be helped at this stage
I don't see any reason it shouldn't work. If it is detected, I imagine the headtracking will be more accurate than a regular webcam. Give it a go and let us know! (P.S. thanks for the sub!)
Wat too many people are having issues with their cameras not being recognized. I was one of them. Many forums are filled with people having the same problem. Logitech seems to be one that this software can't handle, and it's a very common camera. I went with Steam's ViewTracker and it works very well all on it's own. Yes it's $15 but at least it works.
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Thanks so much for this! Brand new to DCS, was using VR at first but the quality/fps downgrade was too much. Switched to head tracking using the neuralnet tracker, but it was so jittery. This is SO much smoother, solved all my problems!
I had the same experience with VR, my PC wasn't good enough to enjoy it. Glad to hear this helped! See you online
You can have VR look the same as the normal version. I think this might help: ruclips.net/video/9S9_XP88PZE/видео.html&ab_channel=EGGROVR
This is nuts, i got working my PS3 camera with the software and its genius! So many thanxs man. Greetings from Argentina
Hey man, was wondering how did you make the ai track recognise the cam. I'm streaming the image through OBS but it doesn't seem to catch it neither does it when i use raw PS eye with drivers installed (of course).
Thank you for this! This is a game changer compared to using the joystick on my flight stick! I definitely have a lot of tuning to do but man this really enhances the game and now I don't feel the need to get TrackIR so soon!
Also that Steam chat notification at 9:03 messed with me haha. I was checking my Steam wondering where the message went lmao.
Great explanation. I've been struggling with this for a long time and just gave up trying to figure it out until I came by this one. Thanks to this it is now working and just needs some adjustments. Keep up the good work!
Please help. Mine Wont Work and I was wondering if i needed to press stuff in the settings or options
every thing is working fine but it doesn't connect to dcs please help
Now i know the problem iwas running update.exe and selected DCS.exe
USE X,Y and Z in settings.. then you can just lean forward instead of zoom with key.. but you can still use key if you need to...
Thanks for taking the time to produce this content, its really appreciated as i am new to DCS. I downloaded your config and used without making any adjustments, itsreally super sensitive in comparison to what clearly demonstrate in the video. I wondered if there was a setting somewhere that i may have missed in DCS?
Everyone's webcam is different, you will need to tune the curve sensitivity to your webcam
@@HoshRampageZA Thanks for the reply, yer i kind of figured that, but just wanted to check there wasnt anything that i may have missed. Thanks again!
@@foxtrotoscar5095 no problem, try changing the "Max input" degrees (above the curves)
how do u set it up in dcs?
tysm im kinda new to dcs so this helps a lot. im still trying to work out the sensitivity but its working great
I had trouble with Open Track, I have a decent enough webcam but AI Track seems much much better. thanks for the tip.
Hey so i am having trouble with AiTrack and it doesnt seem to be connecting to the game, is there any reason for that?
So… my pitch axe is invertet… when i look up he looks down and when i look down he looks up
just stumbled over this video... I used opentrack without AITrack so far, but it seems with AITrack it works better and is less "jittery"... many thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for the information, although most of them I managed to find out on my own.
What I haven't been able to find, and nobody explains on their video, is how to setup DCS to accept input from Open Track! Hundreds of settings and menus, why everybody think it is so easy? And if it is, why is so hard to add 10 seconds video with the guide?
Thank you so much for this, very well made video that helped me a lot!
Difference between Yaw and x is that Yaw reacts to head rotation horizontally, X reacts to moving aside (can be useful in motorbike sims), you can see the difference when disabling everything and leaving only Yaw, then leaving only X
Thanks for sharing, I didn't even know motorbike sims were a thing!
does this mean you could technically use z axis for zoom?
@@adamrupsis3390 yes it does i use it as zoom
@@aaponiemela6521 How big it is zooming in your DCS. I have setting Z axe - imput 10cm - output 300 cm and zooming in DCS is just few. Zoom with keynoard is much more.
With AI Track my DCS doesnt detect it at all and while im tracking
Found the problem! Such a good video, love it! U gained a new sub. Keep doing what u are doing!
AI Track...the most underrated facetracker. It Rocks !!!!
Guys you shouldn't need to do all of this. You don't even need AITrack. Just set your input to "neuralnet Tracker" and choose the correct camera. Output setting is the same and re-map as necessary.
Your welcome :)
tysm tysm tysm now I can use headtrack for dcs ty for the config u gain a sub today
You're welcome, thanks for the sub!
With some tweaking, this performs pretty good!
Great video, extremely helpful, I was looking for a face tracking souloution with a Z axis option for over a month.
Just leaving this here in case someone finds this in 2024.
You can use opentrack on the computer and FreePIE IMU on a phone to use the accelerometer and magnetometer of the phone to do headtracking, it's more precise than image based.
Just use a couple of rubber bands to secure the phone to headphones and you're good.
Has anyone had issues with AITrack crashing windows when you launch DCS? The application runs fine until I launch DCS. Can launch DCS and as soon as AITrack is open it crashes windows.
Any idea why it doesent respond to my Game (Elite Dangerous) It works in theorie, i could make all the settings, and the Squid is moving how i want to. but i somehow cant make it run ingame. 🤔
it works fine but when i look up it goes down and when i look down it goes up, and i cant find out how to invert it
How do you get the webcam tracking windows over the DCS image. I can’t figure out how to open an app without exiting DCS.
Hi, how to save parameters (x,y,z,…) ? Everytime I close and reopen the app, I have to redo all the setting, thanks a lot
At about two minutes of flight any usb-connected device to my PC shuts down, including my webcam, and resets. Doesn't happen any other time unless I run AITrack and OpenTrack.
when i am looking slowly up it goes fast up but idk why can anybody help. On the first use everything worked fine but now its like this
where do you even click download on the latest release aitrack page.
how to turn on the headtracking on dcs?
Hi i could missed some details. With it's setting capacity am i able to see my 48inch tv screen if i try full turn back while flying ? Can i adjust this sensivity easily ?
It messed up I ended up looking at the sky even though I uninstalled it what do I do?
XYZ will change the actual position of your head in the cockpit. For example if you shift your head to the left, your pilots head will be touching the canopy. Z, conversely is for if you lean closer to the camera, it's like zooming into the instrument panels, etc.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for clarifying
@@HoshRampageZA Can you try smooth track and tell us the difference
I waiting for your setup :)
should the webcam be a 720p, 1080p or above? also the FPS of the camera, does it influence? 30, 60, 90fps? dies it make a difference?
how do you get the screen with the octopus up i downloaded the aitrack but only pops up with start tracking
Absolutely amazing! Made it work without complications and it's doing a good-ish job with a pretty old webcam so i assume it would be much better with a good webcam :D
Also i dont know if anyone had mentioned it but the X Y Z are i think for moving closer and further from the camera and something else along those lines...
Not sure about that. x= left and right. Y is up and down and z is in out or further and closer. Sometimes in 3D z and y will be switched. I think the 3D program Blender is like that. Maybe pitch, roll and yaw settings are general settings and the x,y,z, settings are more precise settings or they could be fine tuning settings for the pitch, roll and yaw.
I have some self taught knowledge on 3D graphics but this is a guess on those controls. I have fooled around with both these programs and have never fooled with these controls either. I am 100% sure there is an answer out there if someone wants to take the time to research it.
I most likely will research it sometime, but doubtful it will be today!
what's your sensitivity setting/mapping for smooth movement
Do I need to purchase a cam camera separately to use this program?
How to you open up OpenTrack while in the game cockpit so you can tune it properly
How do I download your .ini? it just shows the configuration and if I copy and paste into mine, it doesn't work.
Does this only work with DCS or can I use it with other flight sims like war thunder?
does anybody have a picture or guide to the mapping for dcs? im been messing with it for days now but nothing is working well
Can you do it in War Thunder?
is there a software that would use two webcams as stereo for more accuracy it looks like these only use one camera i have two i could use
i have it set up like you showed but when I get to dcs my pov does not turn. Do I have to select anything from the options?
very helpful. Thank you!
woah this is amazing!!! Thanks a lot:D
Where is the .exe file? Im looking and cant find it
Just a question when i'm lokking up, it's looking down and vice versa how can adjust them to whan i'm lokking up it will looking up ?
hey dude, Opentrack -> Options -> Output -> check "invert"
This is incredible!
Now this is something 🔥
But how u connect it to dcs ?
Hey there, great video. Just one question, perhaps you know: how well does it work with one screen? I imagine turning your head to the other monitor with this is great, but is it all that useful with just one screen?
Thanks, it is still quite useful with one screen -- the biggest benefit is having a hand free which you would otherwise need to adjust your view
great settings, thx
how do i delete it if i wanted to?
For me it is kind of jittery. How to fix?
Man i don't know how to thank you!, i am a ps4 controller player in dcs with the f 16 viper and it was a pain to shot with the aim 9x in bore , now, i always lock my aim 9 !
Edit: Yes this works, but after a while you get frustrated because it's not perfect, i eventualy bought the TIR 5 and i can say beats opentrack 100 to 1. I ddin't buy the Trackclip pro but i will soon since it gives you more freedom of head movement.
Pretty cool. Seems to absolutely hate my glasses. Not a huge issue for me since I only plan to play DCS on flat screen while learning the modules, I have VR for more serious play.
My opentrack stopped working on DCS, anyone experinced this?
Can we work on this to make 3d games like new nintendo 3ds ?
Tracking only works well when not focused on DCS application, otherwise it freezes at times. Please help?
same, had any fix?
@@dannyfinnett I don't think so, I think I always had some rare jittering when looking around. Maybe messing with the priority of the app in task manager helps but I doubt it
@@panickal ok, I did stay up untill like 2 doing it yesterday so my memory is a bit dodgy, but I did manage to get it working pretty well. I only had jittering when I messed with the Z axis for some reason, but when I reset it it when back to normal. I've got lots of tuning to do to make this viable, rn it's very sensitive.
You helped me a lot, thanks!
When I move my head down, my pilot looks up for some reason, is there any fix to this?
you need to invert the axis -- should be in opentrack settings
I wish I had this when I was poor.
Now I have a Quest 3 🤣
On the other hand I may use this to test missions, thanks.
WAHAHAHAHA!
Me too.
But I'm about to try it because I want to see how is to play on flat screen - I started to play DCS with VR.
Is crazy to spend $200 on trackit!
What do you do if it's super sensitive and will move way too fast? I don't know to control the speed.
The entire video is about controlling the speed lol
Does it work with glasses?
Thank you so much for this, can you recommend some webcams which will perform well for this process
I used a cheap generic 720p/30fps webcam. Best option would be a good quality 60fps webcam. A PS3 eyetoy can work as well (50fps)
Awesome thanks
Does this work for Warthunder?
What facecam are you using?, and does it matter.
For me it does not work at all.
I installed C++ libraries
Then both programs
I see the software tracking properly on preview.
In game, when I click rescan devices I see TrackIR plugged and immediately TrackIR unplugged. Is there an option to assign this software to be the input device?
sorry to hear that -- I didn't need to touch anything in game for it to work. If the preview is fine, maybe you should post this on the DCS forum to see how to do that in-game
great video! problem for me is when i look up, my camera faces down, and when i look down, my camera goes up. This is kinda annoying so i look up and down at the moment. Any fixes?
In opentrack click options go to ouput tab and click the checkbox under invert next to pitch and that will fix it. was also going nuts trying to figure it out
How many degree of freedom does it give 3 or 6?
6, but I generally disabled the other axis and used 3 as it feels more stable
Ill try facetracknoir and it sucks, its too slow but worse its unstable, is this soft better or same? Or problem is my low framerate laptop webcam?
I haven't tried that software, but 30fps on a decent resolution is the minimum
This is probably the best free open source facetrzcking software. Open track also supports a ps eye camera for thermals
Can you use your internal standart pc Webcam?
it should work, but if the quality is not good it might have trouble tracking
Can i use laptop camera for IRtracking?
I don't know, I would think so. Give it a try and let us know
For me it is working really badly with a laptop camera...
Mine is very sensitive can anyone help
For me it is just really jumpy and stuttery. No matter how I try to adjust the curves, I just can't get it right.
It could be your webcam, or try sitting further away from the camera as I mentioned. If none of those work, it is still very early access software so some issues can't be helped at this stage
Giving it some more distant I found fixes a lot of issues. Also make sure you have the right amount of light too much or too little will cause issues.
how do i enable it on dcs???
you know alteady because i dont know too
could you upload his opentrack profile?
Is this possible with a GoPro? Considering the GoPro can be adapted into a Webcam.
New sub, btw!
I don't see any reason it shouldn't work. If it is detected, I imagine the headtracking will be more accurate than a regular webcam. Give it a go and let us know! (P.S. thanks for the sub!)
Wat too many people are having issues with their cameras not being recognized. I was one of them. Many forums are filled with people having the same problem. Logitech seems to be one that this software can't handle, and it's a very common camera. I went with Steam's ViewTracker and it works very well all on it's own. Yes it's $15 but at least it works.
Can you please upload your opentrack profile settings to gethub or somewhere else im really struggling to make a good profile and ty
here you go buddy, but take note that settings differ for each webcam and setup github.com/Rampage-ZA/opentrackconfig/tree/main
@@HoshRampageZA Tysm
How i can use and downlaod your preset ?
link to my preset in the video description. You need to download it and put it in the folder called "opentrack" usually it's in "my documents"
Does it work if i have glasses?
As far as I know it works with glasses and/or headphones
Does it work well if you sit close to the camera?
For my camera not very well, it probably depends on your setup though
So it works with any webcam?
i dont understand how to downald
mine is just jumpoing around and looking behind me
Which webcam do you have??
It's a generic AliExpress $10 webcam
@@HoshRampageZA nice im going to buy a 15$ one from aliexpress too i hope it wont lag
you didnt tell us how to link ai track to open track
If you follow the video steps, they should link automatically. If you have trouble, make sure you run both as admin / allow through AV and UAC
@@HoshRampageZA not true i had to type in the ip and port manually
@@everythinggaming7938 I didn't.
that AI track link has NO EXE file!
There is an archive
youre a gamer
I wear glasses, will this work?
Opentrack frozen my Puter up
You may need to allow it through your anti-virus and run it as an administrator
where the fuck is ai track
Saved me £150 thanks mate
glad to hear that buddy, the best things in life are free!
setting this up its so twitchy...any tips? playing with graphs dont seem to help. frustrated lol