{"id":653,"date":"2015-11-05T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=653"},"modified":"2015-11-05T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:18:21","slug":"fixing-facetracknoir-head-tracking-with-64bit-game-binaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Fixing FaceTrackNoIR head tracking with 64bit game binaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/facetracknoir.sourceforge.net\/images\/icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"61\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;re both a simracing and flightsimming buff. My sims of choice are rfactor2 for simracing and Falcon BMS (4.33 was released not too long ago) for flight sims.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/isiforums.net\/f\/images\/statusicon\/rf2_forum_new-48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While using a head tracking device feels very natural when it comes to flightsimming (I&#8217;m using the excellent<a href=\"http:\/\/www.delanengineering.com\/\"> DelanClip<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/facetracknoir.sourceforge.net\/home\/default.htm\">FaceTrackNoIR<\/a>), it always felt strange when simracing in rfactor2, I just couldn&#8217;t get used to it. The fact that the stock FTNoIR install didn&#8217;t work with the 64bit rfactor2 executable didn&#8217;t help, either.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmsforum.org\/forum\/images\/misc\/vbulletin4_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmsforum.org\/forum\/member.php?6804-sthalik\">Shtalik<\/a>&#8221; on the BMS forum came up with a solution: Simply use the npclient64.dll from the <a href=\"https:\/\/github-cloud.s3.amazonaws.com\/releases\/9753283\/e2ac649e-7ec6-11e5-8648-6b795a923f47.zip?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIAISTNZFOVBIJMK3TQ%2F20151105%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20151105T175436Z&amp;X-Amz-Expires=300&amp;X-Amz-Signature=450025d7010d1223afc27aa4721a195bd5446fc7f85988c89f4809a90e7c0572&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;actor_id=0&amp;response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dopentrack-2.3-rc20.zip&amp;response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream\">OpenTrack zip archive<\/a> and extract it to your FTNoIR directory. Following that, you should not have any problems enjoying head tracking in your favourite 64bit sim of choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;re both a simracing and flightsimming buff. My sims of choice are rfactor2 for simracing and Falcon BMS (4.33 was released not too long ago) for flight sims. While using a head tracking device feels very natural when it comes to flightsimming (I&#8217;m using the excellent DelanClip with FaceTrackNoIR), it always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-pastimes","category-simracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}