LFS New Zealand

Well done for getting your two screens to work, I would have no idea where to start there! Did you notice an FPS drop running both displays?

Ill keep you updated with my progress on the back projection. My first challenge would be working out if I can do DIY back projection paint job on a piece of glass, and see what the results are. My idea is a thin spray coat of white paint which will be bloody hard to get even!

Another idea which appeals is using a geodesic type tent-frame/cover thing made from cheap white cotton sheet. Again a small scale test will confirm whether this is a go-er or not. I like this idea more than the skylight as it is something I can totally DIY, and is potentially foldable into 0 space which is great for when I want to watch movies in the spare room.

Yes, the FPS dropped but mainly because my graphics card is only an NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT and because the rendering is inefficient. MY 60-70FPS dropped to about 30 (during a large multiplayer start grid) - 50FPS (once the cars spread out). I had to turn anti-aliasing down also but can barely notice the difference. The only way I can get both monitors to display at their maximum resolutions is to render another 1920x1080 pixels for the second monitor which then only displays a 1280x1024 piece of that. It shouldn't be much of a strain for most high end graphics cards though. It's also nice to know that if I ran two projectors the FPS would improve.

The back projection sounds tricky. I'll be interested to see what you come up with, it seems as though the result could be quite immersive.

After seeing tiptops cockpit and his button box it reminded me that I havent shown you guys what I did to make my button box haha

It was once a biscuit tin that I mangled with a drill. Just bought all my own buttons, wire etc and a USB digital switch. Soldered everything up and put it into the biscuit tin and mounted it at an angle on a board that goes under my wheel to thicken my desk. Computer just reads it as any other controller, was very simple. Turned out quite nicely. Liam and I spent a lot of time thinking about how we would do this but im surprised it worked out so well for the first attempt.

lol that is pretty cool...biscuit tin lid lol! would have been pretty cheap and it works well!

Haha, I missed this update. Love the biscuit tin, great use of what's available to you