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[BHawthorne]

Definitely info I was looking for. You might not think it merited documentation, but I know I appreciate it a lot.

On the seams, did the material sufficiently hide those areas? I'm looking to get a long roll of 4ft wide screen material custom ordered off of ebay to go seamless that way. I have stacks of 4x8ft 1/8" masonite packing material laying around. I was going to use that for simpit skinning, but looks like it would work good in this case too once I have screen material over it.

$1 all I could haul of masonite scrap:

[Tomlin]

Definitely info I was looking for. You might not think it merited documentation, but I know I appreciate it a lot.

On the seams, did the material sufficiently hide those areas? I'm looking to get a long roll of 4ft wide screen material custom ordered off of ebay to go seamless that way. I have stacks of 4x8ft 1/8" masonite packing material laying around. I was going to use that for simpit skinning, but looks like it would work good in this case too once I have screen material over it.

$1 all I could haul of masonite scrap:

Or if you want to get perfect brand new Masonite, just pick it up from Lowe's for about $7 a sheet! That's what I made my screen out of and I was going to use the 'Blackwidow' paint method, but I really like how Nat and others (wasnt it you Matt?) that found shower curtain works a treat for some visuals.

[GDR]

Hi Nat,

Thanks. What we're all looking for. Great screen by the way!
Like the cotton approach. But, I was some time ago at an exibition where they were projecting on painted MDF with crystal paint. I'll think I'l have a go with that to test on a piece of MDF or has anyone already taken that road.

By the way, on what distances did you put your projectors? Don't say that I'm a bit curious, but A LOT! (I'll have a radius of 380cm myself to cover...)

[BHawthorne]

I still think this is very cool for a screen design. I had thought going through my mind of $1000 screen budgets to pull things off right. I guess we can pull off immersive seamelss cost effectively.

[Melnato]

My original MDF screen was painted with 'BlackWidow", I posted some comparisons last year.

The material i have covered that with is so thick, its 100% light blockout curtain backer, it actually feels like vinyl,
Dont get confused with a bed sheet....this is completely different.

I am thinking of painting this new screen with black-widow again. I'll let you know how that goes...

Nat

[Jackpilot]

Nat

A Tutorial would be great not really for the screen but about the way to properly display those 3 views, pitfalls to avoid, what to do first, we have MSFS network, 3 Projectors, Sol7, TH2Go, ie Hardware and Software to put together in a proper way so that it works.

I understand that it takes time and you already did a lot on the subject but we will appreciate any bit of info that could save us time and mistakes....

Thank you for the superb pictures.

[NicD]

We recently painted our screens with black-widow and we're very pleased with the results (all front projection now and no mirrors). Better color depth and contrast, and nice blacks. Got some good tips off the forum here for that - thanks to those who experimented with it first (Brian, Nat etc).

[Lambis777]

First a big thanks to all for the great infos about this issue.
Nat your setup is absolute perfect.

So we build a cylindrical screen 180 degree
we use the TH2G and send the fs view to the projectors
and finally run the sol7 to give us the perfect warp around 180 screen.

But the question is How the fs9 or the fsx can give us FOV of 180 degree?

As far as i know the smallest zoom factor in the fs9 and the fsx is 0,30 and this i think is give us FOV of the 107 degrees.

The best to project 180 degrees FOV from Fs to 180 screen.
And not 107 degrees FOV from Fs to 180 screen.

Exist any way ? (without re-create 3 separate views or use wideview)
Can someone have solution to this?

Sorry for my poor English.

Lambis

[Melnato]

Lambis,

I think NicD's method (multiple windows) is the only way to get 180 FOV.

I tried, but the frame rates were too low for my liking.

I'm using the wide forward view, zoomed out to about 0.8 and it results in
about 140-150 FOV....quite satisfactory. Remember when you have the TH2Go,
your forward view will 3 times as wide..in my case...3840X800, almost
equivalent to "forward-left...forward and forward-right" in FS9/X.

Nat

[Lambis777]

Nat

Yes i have try it too with the multiple views like NicD`s method but this gives me 13 -15 FPS.
This is unacceptable.

I'm using the wide forward view, zoomed out to about 0.8 and it results in
about 140-150 FOV....quite satisfactory. Remember when you have the TH2Go,
your forward view will 3 times as wide..in my case...3840X800, almost
equivalent to "forward-left...forward and forward-right" in FS9/X.

You say the fs can give you FOV 150 degrees ?
This happen only if the TH2G is attached?
Because the fs with the smallest zoom 0,30 can give only 107 FOV no more.

Please can you explain because i don`t understand how you do it this?
Is something more that can do the TH2G?
I don`t have the TH2G to make tests.

Lambis