[WhooptyWoo]

The issue is that when I look around with my TrackIR 5 most of the HUD moves with my view. Only the reticle and things right near it stay in the "middle." I need a better point of reference after I am looking around. I have tried coloring the "center HUD" white and then making everything else a soft blue. This helps a little, but not enough. Every once in a while when there are a lot of ships on screen I "lose" the reticle when I am TrackIR'n.

I decided to try cockpits to solve this. I found this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=71151.0

I was hoping this would solve the issue. I got the cockpits up and running, but when I tried them with my TrackIR working I did not have them any more. Will cockpits not show up if TrackIR is running, or did I screw something up?

Any other suggestions you have to deal with this issue would be very much appreciated. Like: Could I make the entire HUD stay focused forward, while I am looking around? ..or anything else?

[Al-Rik]

Have you used the generic cockpit ?
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=71151.msg1609061#msg1609061

It works with Freetrack (but I used it only for a short time because I prefer padlock view), no Idea if it works with TrackIr.

[redsniper]

I've been using cockpits with Freetrack without much trouble. This is using "show ship" though, so I don't know if using a separate cockpit model will cause issues. If the cockpits aren't showing up at all then it's probably a problem with mod installation, unrelated to track IR. Tell us how exactly you're implementing cockpits and we'll be able to help you more. Like are you just using a VP from that thread, or did you make up your own .tbm, or what?

[WhooptyWoo]

Thanks for the help. You guys were right about the TrackIR not being the problem. What is happening is, one (possibly more) of the cockpit models are not working.

I must have done all of the starting missions and stopped right before the first Herc II training mission. When I logged back in to do the missions there was no more cockpit. This was also the first time I tried with TrackIR enabled, so I thought that had something to do with it. I just went back through the first missions and the cockpit works every time on the Myrmidon.

I checked and there is definitely a file in the Cockpit/data/maps folder for the Herc II (HercIICP.pof), but it is not showing up for some reason.

I am using the cockpit method explained in the thread "Cockpits One Stop Shopping" (link is in my first post) under the heading "And This one is for FS2 and beyond. I think this is the best way."

I will work through the Herc II missions and see if I can see any more cockpits.

Thanks again for the help. I really appreciate all of the work that has gone into this project.