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skyworxx · Joined: 04 Jan 2007 Posts: 53

i think it was 4 sperate dots and 2 groups of 4 dots, but i dont know if the ir-camera automatically groups the dots

SuperSnail · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 2

If the IR's are close they'll act like one, but this is not the case here... But you can still use it if you cover all but two.
Your setup would be something like this eh? Where X = one IR source

SwedishFrog · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

@yijie:

Yeah, it only supports 4 points of light (dots).

As chaos pointed out, multiple leds can be mounted close to each other at an angle to effectively become one dot. This is done to make reading the dot possible from wider angles (ie when you don't face the tv head on)

yijie · Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks for your help, but i found a simpler solution.
There was an unused remote control lying around, and i just taped the button and it works with wiinremote! I thought the wiimote needs 2 of them?

SwedishFrog · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

ylijie:

nah, dependant on the IR algorithm or script, one led can work just fine. I refer you to my previous post where I mentioned a lamp I own that works well as a sensor bar. It's effectively one big dot.

Have you tried your makeshift sensor bar on any Glovepie IR scripts? Do they work ok?

does the cursor flicker it you use it on the wii?

syzygy350z · Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 6

So the wiimote can recognize four different LED spots?

So would it be best to put an LED at each corner of my screen? Or put one at each top corner and one on each side about halfway down?

SwedishFrog · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject:

no, it'd be best if your sensor bar matched nintendo's as closely as possible in terms of where the leds are placed.

This is because some code performs calibrations based on the relative distances of the dots.

So basically if someone wrote IR code for a normal sensor bar, and you try the script with your wacky SB with dots all over the place, it's likely to become glitchy, dependant on the script of course.