Point Grey Camera for use with FSX 18

[Bloodredshadows]

Hi guys

I recently bought a Flir (Point Grey) USB high speed camera.
I can't for the life of me get it to work in FSX18
Its a Flir Blackfly S USB camera.
Has anybody else had any joy using a camera from Point Grey in the past before?
And if so, what on earth did you do?
Cheers
John

[mmlincon]

Have you installed the fly capture software? Are you able to view the cameras from it? There is some camera software that you can install from the foresight download site. I don't remember if it's for the PTGrey cameras or imaging source though. It's one of the two.

[Bloodredshadows]

Hi mate
yeah, I’ve installed the software, but because it is the bckgly S camera, it is only compatible with the newer software from Flir called Spinnaker I think instead of FlyCapture.
i can get an image on the software but in FSX there’s no camera to select.
the software that’s available from Foresight is for Imaging Source cameras unfortunately.

[mmlincon]

Oh yes! I did try one of those and returned it because it didn't work. Foresight needs to create the new spinnaker plugin. I inquired about it but didn't get a response. Kinda sucks cause I think those would be nice swing cams.

[Bloodredshadows]

ill have a play around with it to see if I can get it to work but it doesn't look promising.
Great camera too.
I've also got a Flir Grasshopper coming as well, so hopefully that works with FlyCapture.
Were you able to get a Flir/PointGrey camera to work in FSX once it was working in flycapture?

[mmlincon]

I'm using grasshopper3 now and they work pretty well. There is no control over the cam in FSX but you can configure the firmware with flycapture and a few settings in the fsxsettings file.

[Bloodredshadows]

What FPS you getting? Just pretty well?

[mmlincon]

In flycapture it's reporting 80-90. In the preview page in FSX is says 30. When stepping through the swings I'd say the 80-90 is more accurate. So, yeah pretty well. More FPS would be nice. I get what I need to work on the swing. You can't make out exact clubhead positions though. Also, I'm running them in BW. I get a very weird color cast when running them in FSX. I can correct this in flycapture but it doesn't carry over for some reason.

[Bloodredshadows]

Hi guys
digging up this thread again with the announcement of the swing catalyst partnership as the blackfly cameras are recommended with swing catalyst.
does anyone have the flir / point grey cameras working nicely with FSX 2020?
cheers
john

[Drza3]

Bumping this up again and wondering if anyone has gotten Flir cameras to work in FSX2020. I can't get the camera to show up in the dropdown in FSX. Camera works fine in Flir Spinnaker software