07-18-2013, 09:49 AM
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Honestly, I don't know why someone hasn't made a commercial force feedback wheel / pedals / shifter set up. I cannot imagine spending hundreds of dollars on a wheel unless it's that. That's why I went cheap, what I want doesn't really exist. The brake pedal at least really NEEDS to be force feedback at this level. And h-pattern just doesn't sound that fun unless it is too. There's no way to properly model a missed shift.
*edit* it does exist! It's just $1000
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...Seems like that could be done a lot more cheaply. Not sure why the same or similar motor couldn't be used as the wheel, hooked up to a pedal with an amerature. Doesn't really need to be a real master cyl and all that crazy stuff, the motor can provide resistance and feedback. :dunno:
Sully Wrote:I love the h pattern shifterSo.... before you love it too much... look it up on the iRacing forum. It was apparently a big sticking point that iRacing doesn't handle h-pattern the way they should, allowing for some apparently unrealistic shifting. Something about "pre-loading" the shifter. Having never tried it myself, I cannot comment, maybe it's not a big deal, but the description of the problem and the complaining made me happy to have a simple one.
Honestly, I don't know why someone hasn't made a commercial force feedback wheel / pedals / shifter set up. I cannot imagine spending hundreds of dollars on a wheel unless it's that. That's why I went cheap, what I want doesn't really exist. The brake pedal at least really NEEDS to be force feedback at this level. And h-pattern just doesn't sound that fun unless it is too. There's no way to properly model a missed shift.
*edit* it does exist! It's just $1000
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...Seems like that could be done a lot more cheaply. Not sure why the same or similar motor couldn't be used as the wheel, hooked up to a pedal with an amerature. Doesn't really need to be a real master cyl and all that crazy stuff, the motor can provide resistance and feedback. :dunno:
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