Multiple Monitor Gallery
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:30 pm
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:33 pm
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:45 pm
some of these pics seem to come out straight from maxwell's site
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:50 pm
I've set up cockpits like that for documentaries before - it's not that hard or that expensive especially these days with the cost of LCD's.
On one setup I had one pc with 5 video cards in it driving all the monitors with gauges, networked to 3 seperate pc's for the 'out the window' monitors.
Here's what one of them looked like.
(but all my pics show only gauges and not the outside monitors
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PS. the backlight for the physical switches are just colored squares on the monitors in areas hidden by the bezel.
On one setup I had one pc with 5 video cards in it driving all the monitors with gauges, networked to 3 seperate pc's for the 'out the window' monitors.
Here's what one of them looked like.
(but all my pics show only gauges and not the outside monitors
)PS. the backlight for the physical switches are just colored squares on the monitors in areas hidden by the bezel.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:55 pm
I'm not quite sure what am I looking at...b-kandor wrote:I've set up cockpits like that for documentaries before - it's not that hard or that expensive especially these days with the cost of LCD's.
On one setup I had one pc with 5 video cards in it driving all the monitors with gauges, networked to 3 seperate pc's for the 'out the window' monitors.
Here's what one of them looked like.
(but all my pics show only gauges and not the outside monitors
PS. the backlight for the physical switches are just colored squares on the monitors in areas hidden by the bezel.
I'm also not sure what the word "expensive " means to you
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:00 pm
Your looking at a 'fake' cockpit - The bezel is mounted in front of several crt monitors - the monitors I programmed in flightsim to display enlarged versions of the various gauges on a black background. Pretend switches etc. are mounted in the bezel etc. etc. This was used for a documentary on discover channel a few years ago now.
As for cost, if you can put together a few pc's and a few monitors on a desktop with a yoke and rudder pedals your 90% there for a few thousand bucks! Of course the sky is the limit....
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:21 pm
how much would have been for the one pictured for the discovery channel?b-kandor wrote:
This was used for a documentary on discover channel a few years ago now.
As for cost, if you can put together a few pc's and a few monitors on a desktop with a yoke and rudder pedals your 90% there for a few thousand bucks! Of course the sky is the limit....
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:29 am
Scott: .....that is very cool.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:25 am
Thx: it was a fun project - (except for reading all the incident reports) - luckily I'm into airplanes...
Leaving for oshkosh on saturday:
http://www.airventure.org
Leaving for oshkosh on saturday:
http://www.airventure.org
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:21 am
hahaha these guys are nuts!?!? "because it looks really cool"
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:32 pm
Why didn't they just take a picture of a real cockpit, woulden't that have been cheaper?b-kandor wrote:Thx: it was a fun project - (except for reading all the incident reports) - luckily I'm into airplanes...
Leaving for oshkosh on saturday:
http://www.airventure.org
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:07 pm
It was the whole cockpit - seats, yokes etc and working gauges all mounted on a gimbal - so actors sat in the seats and were filmed re-enacting the various scenes etc. Meanwhile flightsim would be moving the gauges and creating all the auditory klaxons, alarms etc. on que.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:43 pm
You made all of that for a few thousand bucks wow! I thought all you did was make pretty pictures you actually have some stills too. 
wow! I thought all you did was make pretty pictures you actually have some stills too. Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:03 am
No, more than a few K!
What I was saying you can do for a few K is setup a pretty nice multiple screen rig for flight sims 'without' all the cockpit stuff. Actually, pretty pictures are still last on my skillset list! (along with sub-d modelling hehe).
I started out building prototypes and patterns.
What I was saying you can do for a few K is setup a pretty nice multiple screen rig for flight sims 'without' all the cockpit stuff. Actually, pretty pictures are still last on my skillset list! (along with sub-d modelling hehe).
I started out building prototypes and patterns.