D.I.Y. Cheap Curved Projector Screen- for the Flight Sim!

[@andystafford1653]

Mate, I'm a simulator engineer by profession, 41 years in the job. My specialty is visual generation and display systems. I have to say, this looks pretty fine to me. Crackin' job! Keep up the great work!

[@walkaway6353]

I have Been around a few to many years too. YOU would be blessed to have this guy working for you. I know your "profession". NOT impressed! And just like Boeing is learning... The Good Old Boy club will be the death nail in your coffin. Its best you keep silent and stay in the shadow's.

[@CesarZumarraga]

@@walkaway6353 what the fuck are you saying

[@walkaway6353]

​@@CesarZumarraga Just what is wrong with your comprehension. Just stick to flipping hamburger's. Grown ups are talking.

[@CesarZumarraga]

@@walkaway6353 Fuck off. That's exactly why you haven't found love yet and you never will.

[@Lectrosoul]

@@walkaway6353 You are a Tosser, when you grow up a bit and rediscover this video on KZbin in 5 years time, you will read back your comments and realise what an absolute fool you were back then.. You will be glad the delete button is still available to you.. or will it be?

[@kurogiza]

This. This is what the 12 year old in me wanted when I first played Falcon in the late eighties. Well done!

[@casedistorted]

A-10 Cuba baby, I loved that game back in the day

[@fishsquishguy1833]

Don’t know how I ended up here, but this is freaking awesome!!

[@randyporter3491]

Jim EC LOL! Me either ! , but this is one of the coolest things I’ve seen and I’m a pilot !

[@fredkapp498]

Damn you built all that whats the cost ? How did you learn to fly thats a complicated cockpit..you got skills so freaking cool

[@vancewhitfield7709]

You have made my childhood come to life. I'm so glad I found you. Money is tight but hopefully one day I can build something like this. So friggin awesome!

[@Jimbo-in-Thailand]

2 THUMBS WAAAAAY UP!!! Seems not enough to call it outstanding! Being a real pilot in my younger days, the full peripheral 180° curved screen is not only awesome, but mandatory for a realistic immersion factor. At one time I had actually collected all of the front and rear cockpit components from scrapped F-4 Phantoms, including instrument panels, joystick, throttles, canopies, Martin-Baker ejection seats, rudder pedals and mounting structure, as well as all the left and right hand console panels. I sold most of my collection when I decided to become an expat back in 2004. I wish I had taken the time to 3D model all of the components as well as scan/photograph the components and panel faces to later make authentic reproductions for a flight sim like this one. Oh well.

[@marknovak9310]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saw this video after viewing Russ Barlow's youtube site where you left a comment. Every time I think I have a great flight sim setup figured out along comes an effort like yours. One hell of a set up-----PERIOD. Glad you are sharing this accomplishment with others like me.

[@petergibbs]

That was amazing. How quickly the eye is tricked into accepting you are at an angle in a turn, even just viewing it on a laptop screen.

[@FB0102]

truly amazing, astounding job, thanks for sharing

[@MrPeediff]

Wow! What a truly amazing set up. Really well done!

[@MrAnimal1971]

Superb job. I am going to do this for my racing sim rig.

[@mdsf01]

"It's pretty cool." Huge understatement...... NO! It's AMAZING! Well done sir!

[@jay6817]

Oh my god I can't keep watching this I'm so jelly I really really want something like this. Amazing job fella

[@r.a.monigold9789]

What you have done is impressive. How you've done it is amazing. Clever chap, you! Thanks for sharing...

[@thewarthogproject]

Thanks!

[@uliseslopez3330]

@@thewarthogproject Friend, is there anything else that does the same?

[@gordonyork6638]

Dude. You have made skills. Hats off.

[@Squog]

what you have done is fantastic! I want to build my own 'pit one day - if the missus allows me!

[@Impisak]

yes

[@Anita95_original]

To avoid the calibration time, reduce the registration error by mounting BOTH projectors on one piece of solid material that in turn is mounted to the roof. This ensures that any movement of the roof affects BOTH projectors the same, which may lead to the whole image moving on the curved screen but not any registration error between the two projectors. Use something that doesn't warp or change dimensions too much due to heat or moisture, just make sure it is more solid than the roof and that both projectors move together, then the mount onto the roof itself is of less concern.

[@nathanb3142]

This, but you could honestly just use 3/4"(20mm) plywood. Plywood is very stable, and the projectors would move the same amount regardless. MDF is fairly stable too, but not as strong as plywood.

[@Anita95_original]

@@nathanb3142 Plywood and MDF are both reasonable materials to use since you don't have fibers all aligned in one direction, and will expand/contract less than metals due to temperature. The whole point is just to make sure both projectors move together by mounting them first together and then secondary to the ceiling that obviously moves.

[@thewarthogproject]

Good suggestion. I'll give it a go. It's also likely the bulk of my problem is coming from the cheap projector mounts as well, there is a lot of play in them no matter how hard I tighten them. I'm planning some custom made aluminium ones out now.

[@DeltaV3]

This is top notch stuff mate. Very impressive. A legend is born. 👍

[@tomsbasement4884]

I can remember back in the early 80s playing Microprose F15 Strike Eagle on my 12" portable TV with my Commodore 64 using an Atari style single stick single button controller. I consider myself privileged to have lived and witnessed the amazing advances in computer gaming/sims. These are wonderful times that we live in.

[@ThomasGrillo]

Ok, my turn. ;) That is one fantastic flight sim. Reminds me of the one in the movie, Project X. Nicely done! thanks for sharing. :)

[@hangar4851]

So beautiful! Great Job and thanks for sharing.

[@ovalwingnut]

Barf Bag REQUIRED! Fantastic... Living the Dream 😎😎😎 ❤It !!!!!!!!

[@CraigSmysimpit]

That's an amazing setup. Thanks for sharing the detail behind its construction. Brilliant.

[@Impisak]

yes

[@stijn512]

this man is a genius. great job

[@spike8002]

Who hasn’t dreamed of flying one of these beasts!

[@StevenNovak]

Absolutely amazing!

[@MichaelPerryFloridaRealEstate]

Dude, that is sick! Nice work!

[@Bat4Real]

You are an inspiration.

[@anidiotinaracingcar]

Looks very very nice

[@joesim9577]

Very cool. I bet you are in for some fun times with that setup.

[@thewarthogproject]

Thanks Joe. Your videos have given me lots of ideas and helped me along the way!

[@richard8181]

Fantastic job, love it.

[@JeffsTravels]

Ingenious cost effective engineering!!

[@roddraym]

Very inspiring! Thanks for taking the time to record and share this information. Cheers :)

[@madcow3k]

Cool vid. Amazing setup. Wish I could like it twice.

[@stuartsherman5975]

Wow! Well done.

[@hm6769]

I love the looks of your screen. It's AWESOME and so is your cockpit.. Want to build one someday. My cockpit is/ and will be somewhat simplified compared to yours. To many buttons and switches. I have no electrical knowledge. I want to hop in and fly. I DON'T plan to fly the real jet ever. I just want to have fun.

[@scoobylew24]

Wow, you did a great job on the cheap. Looks like a million bucks! o7

[@Impisak]

This is awesome! Great job! Maybe you could show a little bit of the details of the cockpit and how its made in another video? :)

[@thewarthogproject]

Check my channel!

[@bradecrain]

Great job on the visuals. I'm going to take your design and build my own for general aviation.

[@fredkapp498]

I'd bet someone who flew real one would be really impressed. The quality and your skills. Tell us more about your bio. I find talented peeps like you very interesting. I don't fly recently checking out these home built Sims very interesting and cool.

[@christianbest6465]

Amazing!!!

[@THIRSTYGUMS]

That's amazing! I want one

[@wavydave]

I was happy with my dual 27" Samsung Curved setup, but yours is orders of magnitude beyond my simple rig. I would love to play Eve Online on your monster screen, kudos to your awesome build.

[@THE320CREW]

Awesome job mate.

[@sUASNews]

Huge talent, well done

[@tsangarisjohn]

Invest in some blackout curtains. It will improve your amazing room immensely. Awesome work dude 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@cardboardboxification]

Paint the room flat black

[@DFX2KX]

One thing you could do if you wanted to go really crazy (and if ED ever makes DCS not drop so much FPS exporting the instruments) is make a reflector setup and project the HUD onto an actual reproduction HUD, there was a forum post where someone did that ages back, but I don't remember the ins and outs of doing it because I've never had room for a simpit, so never bothered to try

[@thewarthogproject]

I did actually research that, the hardest part would be getting the exported HUD to actually line up with the outside world viewport on the screen. It would need to be absolutly perfectly aligned for BRRRTTTT. Too much work for too little gain in the end- the on screen HUD works well.

[@edgarkeck3010]

Absolutely awesome! You've got mad skills!

[@shawnlund]

Simply brilliant build. Love it.

[@stuartdewell5472]

This is honestly incredible , and it all works too 😍😍

[@1dgram]

Now you need a second one with a door built in so that you can get a full 360°. After all, you need to be able to look behind you to see if the rudder and elevator control is free and correct

[@Autoxdriver]

Simply awesome, quality work. The glaring issue though is that in a dogfight the pilot spends a lot of time looking upwards along his lift vector, this really only works for looking side to side. Need to make one out of a semi-sphere. ;)

[@thewarthogproject]

I use TrackIR for that! I'd love a dome style setup, but the cost would be much higher and I just don't have the room for it!

[@JasonWelchMusic]

This would be fun for iracing..... better than triples for certain. Even considering the loss in picture quality, the immersion experience would make up for the difference. Easy trade.

[@danieljohnson5849]

My skin is literally turning green with envy over your sic A-10 Sim.

[@SuppositionalBox]

With the way the prices went for NVidia in the latter half of 2018, you might have been better off with a 1080 Ti just because of how cheap they were for a Ti card, but the 1080 is still a great card. As for the frame rate drops, try reducing the ground clutter option. I noticed it was popping in late and saw your frames suffer soon after. Use late "Pop-In" (when ground clutter or objects suddenly appear in close proximity to the player) as an indicator that the GPU is somewhat struggling to keep up. If you have it setup so stuff rarely pops-in late like that, you should see far less frame rate drops than if it were.

[@Soryueva02]

Awesome Work!... can you make a Video on the software you use to warp the Desktop? and how to set up the projectors... which extra programs do you use? Thx!

[@Tommy_Boy.]

Really, really cool! Nicely done! 👍👍🛫

[@Simon_Rafferty]

"Pretty Cool" - that's an understatement! F^2 Cool!

[@sirt8684]

I like the Aussie work boots at 01:55 ;)

[@calw2939]

Awesome video. One tip with the projectors (as a professional film/AV projectionist), depending on the type of projector. They can take up to 30 minutes to warm up and have internal parts shift to whatever their 'warm' position is. So you may find they're out of alignment, but if you leave them for 30 minutes, they may shift back into their normal operating alligned position (unless as you said, the roof temp is changing!)

[@thewarthogproject]

You are absolutely right. I've been leaving them to warm up and they seem to rectify themselves!

[@calw2939]

@@thewarthogproject Good to hear. We regularly double-stack 2 large format projectors and I leave them for 30 minutes to heat up, it's amazing to see how much the test pattern shifts!

[@FlyerOneZero]

@@calw2939 @The Warthog Project Lens shift is the bane of my life. I find over time the shift actually accumulates until no amount of warming up will re-align the image. Then it's time to re-calibrate the whole thing :-(

[@kenmercermusic]

This is awesome dude, good job!

[@diytok3293]

What projectors are you using

[@benjiminus04]

Awesome job!!

[@simonjones8378]

Incredible screen. Thanks for posting it. Can I please ask what are the dimensions of each 90 degree panel? And what was the cost of the software to run it? I have just acquired 2 identical projectors and hope to build something similar. They are 16:10 ratio so I'm assuming it's best built to that scale? And help with that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[@davew1234]

Nice work!

[@jackdaniels64]

I’m new to all of this and my mind has been blown!! Wow

[@leinadreign3510]

I'm not into simulator stuff. So why do I get this video recommended? Really amazing what you can build nowdays : )

[@SuperSpreeGaming]

You should figure out a way to project 360° in all directions. Not sure how you’d get the sky but it would look pretty good once you’re done.

[@NotPofkp]

Spree Gaming I have two words for you. Virtual Reality

[@cranegantry868]

"Anyway, that's all I've got today"... WOW!!! That's ALL!!

[@naijapilotxmax6006]

You call this cheap?! This is one of the best I have seen dude.

[@nielsdegroot9138]

Cheap doesn't automatically mean rubbish.

[@chaser1956]

HIM: Honey, look at this awesome sim cockpit and display I built. HER: Wow that is real nice... but I need to tell you something... HIM: Oh what is that honey? HER: We are pregnant this has got to go....Need the bedroom for the baby.

[@danklyf4202]

Stupid kids😠

[@gregson99]

no problem honey. Ill just live in this room and you and the baby can share:)

[@caseyalexander1705]

@@gregson99 A fighter pilot once said that his jet was like his wife... He loved the good qualities and great attributes and learned to live with the bad ones. ")

[@thewarthogproject]

Haha that already happened- we moved to a bigger house!

[@walkaway6353]

AHHHaaa, ok... Have you found a new place for the wife and the baby yet?

[@AutoSonic495]

Thanks i was looking how to do this because I have a sim wheel and wanted more immersion for cheap to nothing

[@DugOut.WildCamping]

Epic build mate. Simmin like a boss

[@axlgutidenia]

Great job, this is amazing, i´m very cool an happy, thanks man and this structure is fabolus for my 737 visual.

[@FernandoOliveira1979]

This is dope!

[@lutrabelenus7379]

Sweet! It puts past promises of virtual worlds within reach today. Thank you. I do have questions. Lots actually, but I’ll be brief. Your computer: is everything run from the one computer? If yes, have you considered a slave(s) dedicated to the world display and/or a slave for the instruments panel? If so, what might you consider? Another question, please? Concerning this type display and motion cockpits; can the two work together or would the world view need move with the cockpit? Or would it be dependent on total amount of motion? i.e. one wouldn’t expect the range of motion in a race car cockpit as one may expect from flight cockpit. Yeah, I’m kind of a noob to this, but I still gotta ask. Thank you.

[@djdrthq]

Great stuff, more inspiration for my current project :)

[@adampierson3080]

You should put the monitors on a single mount so you don’t have to deal with the temperature changes

[@Liofa73]

I guess there is a slight brightness/colour difference between the monitors where they overlap. I suppose that's just variation of the projectors.

[@thewarthogproject]

Yep. One of my projecters is actually a different model than the other (1080st v 1080st+). I'm still trying to iron out the calibration.

[@mustangbob51]

have you considered building a frame from your screens to hold your projectors? i've seen your 270 degree video. stinkin' fantastic. keep up the stellar work!

[@mauritzploeg1087]

This is so cool mate...!!!

[@hansangb]

RomeoKilo, that is an incredible accomplishment. Wow. the dedication.

[@vonStahlhelm]

I remember my childhood, those 180° cinemas were the show FPS movies recorded in cars, airplanes and rollercoasters. Its only a brain trick, but you can feel the acceleration and g-powers a little bit. Sometimes the people start to tumble or have to sit down because it was so realistic. How is that effect in you flight-sim? Did it trick you brain too so that you can feel the flight movements in your guts?

[@Power5]

This pit is just absolutely amazing. My question is when can we see the Mirage 2000c, F18c, F15c, and now the F14B room? If I could build a sim pit like this, I would have to have a 6 bedroom house with 1 bedroom for each. Just wish I was good at electronics. I could make the panels and stuff in CAD and 3D printing, but the electronics would end me.

[@thewarthogproject]

Haha maybe when I win lotto. Get into it, the electronics is the easy bit! With DCS-BIOS and arduinos, if you can cut and paste code you can get them to working in DCS. Spend a few dollars on an arduino from China and have a go, you will get one led blinking as a master caution light and be hooked. In five years you will have your 6 bedroom simulator house haha!

[@samyosef]

That’s insane good job 😎

[@DanRasmussen72]

I like this! I might do this for my 737-800 sim

[@paulaglet4255]

Mikey likes it, he really likes it!

[@edwinkania5286]

Impressive

[@MVHStudios]

Ok, I'm genuinely impressed. Well done mate.

[@spy2778]

Dude that’s awesome!

[@SnowTiger45]

I love it. But I do see a potential downside to this type of setup being that without TrackIR or the like, you can't see Behind or Above you.

[@koekiejam18]

i think that if you go this far you already have trackir

[@mgcservices7524]

Absolutely brilliant - thank you so much for sharing 👍

[@AdventuresonTour]

This is outstanding, what's the radius of the curve? I've been looking at doing the same for my own SIM.

[@EagleEyeFilms]

Same Question, if you can provide this info would be perfect thank you!

[@AdventuresonTour]

@@EagleEyeFilms I think I have figured it out. Working at the largest size of a single sheet. Here in Canada that's 48inchs tall. With 16:9 projector that's 85inchs wide for each 90° section, times 4 is 340inch circumstance. That makes a radius of 54inchs. I'm going to build one for my P3D sim.. hopefully it works out as well.

[@EagleEyeFilms]

@@AdventuresonTour Fantastic, thank you, very very much! I'll dive into it to check how it will render for our simulator project over here in Switzerland :D

[@Dannyg2298]

That's ace mate is there anyway of doing it with one projector for sim racing doesn't have to be as big ?

[@russjohnson3011]

Nice- Have you thought about building a canopy frame for he cockpit?

[@laburnibyboone3435]

This is amazing

[@viniciusromao9454]

How did you made to fix the two screen in one? Which software you used?

[@marvininthemiddle4586]

How about an ejection seat demo next.

[@sharpx777]

great job man, pretty amazing.

[@Crazy--Clown]

Nicely done 👍 👍

[@chrisybradshaw8594]

Awesome , how are the projectors connected up