What it Cost! - A10C Warthog Simulator (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2019
- Welcome to the Warthog Project! This is Part 2 of the video that finally answers the number one question i get asked: How much did this all cost??
In this video I will go over the cost to add all the peripherals to the cockpit, including the Thrustmaster 'Cougar' MFD's and Warthog HOTAS, SimPed F16 Rudder Pedals and the Virpil Extension.
Then I go into the cost of the display setup I am using, including the custom made 180 degree curved projection surface, the two Benq 1080ST projectors, the projector mounts and HDMI cables, and the Fly Elise software used to blend and warp the two projector images.
01:10- Thrustmaster Cougar MFD's
02:05- Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS
02:40- VIRPIL Warthog Extension (100mm)
02:58- SimPed F-16 Rudder Pedals
03:44- Sound System
04:22- Buttkicker Gamer 2
05:42- Projectors (Benq 1080ST)
08:18- Projector Mounts/HDMI Cables
10:05- Display Surface
11:27- Warp/Blend Software (www.fly.elise-ng.net)
14:03- Grand Total Cost
15:22- Rambling about the PC
17:24- BRRRTTTT
All my plans, panel files, and 3D printing .stls are free for download at thewarthogproject.com/
I sometimes livestream on twitch- / thewarthogproject
Or check out my Instagram at- / thewarthogproject
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
How much did this cost?
Answer is explained fully right here!
What Game/Sim is this?
Digital Combat Simulator World (A-10C Tank Killer II) - www.digitalcombatsimulator.co...
Can I have a free copy of all your panel design files?
Yes you can! - thewarthogproject.com/downloads
What software do you use to warp the projector image? Fly Elise-ng Immersive Diplay Pro - fly.elise-ng.net/products/
What software do you use to export the gauges on the main panel?
Helios - github.com/HeliosVirtualCockp...
What are your PC Spec?
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master, Intel i7-9700k OC to 5ghz, 32GB Corsair RAM, Gigabyte Aorus GTX1080ti Waterforce Extreme Edition, Samsung 920 EVO M.2 1TB SSD (OS and DCS), Samsung 860 QVO 2TB 2.5" SATA SSD (Storage), Two XSPC 360mm Radiators, EKWB Velocity CPU Waterblock, EK-RES X3 250mm with D5 water pump, Custom Hard Tubing, Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic Black Case. All RGB turned off!
Sorry about the silence at the start! Decided to just mute it rather than re upload thanks to some shady BS copywrite claim... Skip to 0:36 for the start! Cheers!
More on the CPU and less on the GPU sounds like a terrible idea if you are playing games, especially simulators... get MSFS 2020 and you'll have a change of heart
If my wife ever tells me I spend to much on DCS, I'll have her watch this. Outstanding build mate.
I'm very surprised with the cost efficiency you've maintained with this build. However, I was more surprised when you said you had a wife! With a setup like that it's normally a wife or the flight sim life 😂 She's definitely a keeper. Seriously though, very impressive. Keep building it up until you can fly that sucker right out of your house ✈️
If it was made by the government, it would have cost 500,000$ for one model and would take years to finish
Yep, and it would not have worked... The second one would have a $5 million budget ...
@@project.jericho It's pretty amazing that a civilian can get so close to military-level equipment with an investment less than his cellphone expenses over 5 years.
@@project.jericho I'm guessing the reason he doesn't have have a frame for it is because he uses projectors for his screen. Adding that would cast shadows and block the view.
The military versions are much larger and hydraulic computer controlled beasts. Which is one of the reasons that they cost so much. However, yes they do cost way too much for what they are, however all military budgets along with other Government budgets pay a lot more than they need to for light bulbs etc. However, all of that is top secret and I kid you not, all military suppliers whether it be paper clips, light bulbs etc are classified as top secret.
PLUS is would run on Microsoft Flight simulator 98
One of the finest implementations of a home cockpit I've ever seen. Well done!
You did a great job. Cant believe how nice it came out. I think you just started a new business .... Ive seen sims go for 100's of thousands of dollars. Your there dude. Your def on top now.
As I said in a previous video, the amount of work that went into this is truly amazing. Is it military quality? No, of course not, but for less than $10K, it still an amazing feat. You did really well! Congrats.
I’m shocked 😱 I figured surely $50,000.00 or something crazy! That’s amazing!
Yeah, only the price of a small car - nothing too bad. I'm thinking this should be used to train pilots - it's cheap training with no risk.
@@Welther47 pilots already get this for training but more complicated with the whole thing mounted on hydraulics and it rolls/yaws with the simulator
I guess the price right 😂
Awesome effort. As someone who has spent time in a real military flight simulator, you did a cracking job mate. Bravo Zulu !
I too was shocked to hear what it cost to build this. I told my wife that it probably cost $20,000 once everything was figured in. I wonder how much was saved by building so much yourself and not buying finished components when they were available. All I can say is that this is amazing work and the best home built simulator I’ve ever seen. A very well done job. Bravo to you sir for your dedication and hard work. It definitely paid off. 👍👏👏👏
I believe that the a-10c dcs-bios script can send the cdu as text, so its possible to have an arduino render the cdu on its own instead of using video output from the game, freeing up a display output.
Also, 8000 AUD is honestly not bad for a setup like that, if you had a 'normal' hobby like riding a motorcycle you would easily exceed that amount just on the initial purchase, if you like going alpine skiing or snowboarding it doesn't take too many trips and equipment bought to exceed that. It's a matter of perspective and honestly in my mind the process of building is just as exciting as using a simpit.
Completely true. Building it is the fun part for me- I've always enjoyed being in the shed and tinkering. Its all about the small victories when something is powered up works first time. I used to play around with old cars for a hobby- this one is much much much cheaper!!
@@thewarthogproject or you know do the easy thing and get a usb to hdmi adapter...
For those that are curious, on the same day this video was posted it the equivalent to $5334.98 US dollars
According to google anyway.
Awesome build
Amazing job! Jumped on to DCS a year or two ago which brought me to the Oculus. Not near enough fun. Found your videos which brought me back to building my own pit which is something I wanted to do 10 or so years ago. With a 3D printer and a laser cutter in the workshop, I'm ready to go. I knew I spent way too much on those for something. Now I'm researching everything but your advice is great. Look forward to the coming videos!
Great mate cant wait to see what you make!
What a fantastic job! Thank you for sharing your expertise on your build!
Have you ever played wearing aviator sunglasses and listening to Kenny Loggins Danger Zone? If not, do you plan on doing so?
Shrimpin Bidness lol
negative ghost rider, the pattern is full
Kenny loggins, Danger zone = Top gun. So should be be building an F-14 Tomcat simulator instead :D
I love the A-10 Warthog, it is my favorite aircraft ever. The U.S. Air Force 127th Wing is stationed about 20 minutes from my house so I get to see the hog in flight quite often. This amazing rig that you have built is the coolest thing I have ever seen! If I had the room, I would love to build one like it. I built a cabinet about 30 years ago to sit in when I played F-15 Strike Eagle on my Commodore 64 computer, It was comparable to a Race Drivin' sit in cabinet and I thought THAT was bada$$, but this is the holy grail of rigs in my opinion. Bravo! Can't wait to see the next video!
Red Devils!
Thanks! I remember making a two seat cockpit out of chairs while playing Tomcat on Atari 2600!
Wow. Great job putting this together. It looks amazing!
Considering the quality and realism of the setup you've built, the cost seems pretty modest to me.
Could u use an occulas with ir tracker and still be accurate with the switches
Very modest indeed since you could sell it at 5x or 10x and someone would buy it as a turn key setup
It all looks great and the projection setup is extremely impressive. Going 270 degree or full dome would be truly awesome 👍
Deeply impressed! Thanks for sharing!👍👍
There's one thing that you can never factor in. The time spent to find the parts. The time spent for manufacturing. Even if this was a passion diy project, that time is money if he\you was doing it for someone else. Plus the time for designing everything.
Stellar work there, mate. That's a sweet setup you got there.
Absolutely. This video is for hobbyists like me building it all themselves.if you were paying someone to do it all for you, it would cost 4 times as much, probably more!
Outstanding! Looking forward to watching the next one 👌
Well worth every penny spent!
Amazing job so far!
Wow... just wow! You could make and sell this setup to people for LOTS of money. Respect dude!
Yikes! I had no idea how expensive screen-warping software was.
simply fantastic...kudos on a job well done....beautiful work
I just love you setup you have...
You are the meaning or sheer determintion i salute to you
Dude...Just AWESOME work. Well done and a MASSIVE hats off to you. Subbed...
Thanks!!
Your build is awesome. Thanks for all the tips, it's inspired me to build a simpit. Last year you promised a video on how you built your gauges. I also wonder how you built the up front controller. Keep up the good work.
Thanks mate! Once you start you wont stop. I actually need to pull my fuel gauge and have a tinker with it anyway- ill be sure to film it when its in pieces!
Next step is to buy a couple of servos and get that whole thing moving! Nice job mate
Very nice work on this pit!
And very costefficient, wow.
I'm building a F-16 Homecockpit right now and now have almost everything needed for it. I'll be at about 30.000 Aussie Dollars without visuals.
Some original real parts are in mine too, they drive the price up though. But I never thought, you'd be in that low pricesection with such a great pit, respect!
I started an F16 too, pretty pricey for parts.
30K- ouch. I'm considering a Viper pit as well thanks to the upcoming DCS module...
I'm pretty confident my other half would tell me just to go out and have a couple affairs to get my kicks HAHA. Still super impressed. Cheers
Simply amazing work and worth the money.
Great job mate, well done.
That is pretty epic. Well done, Sir.
My concern with projectors on curved screens has always been the focus. I figured unless they are laser projectors, you'd only be able to keep one slice of the image in sharp focus, but it looks like that isn't a huge issue for you. Perhaps higher resolutions would present bigger problems because of the additional fidelity.
I'm thinking that you could replace the projector screen with a Tilt Five AR glasses + some retro reflective surfaces.
That way you'd have 3D environment and you could make it bigger than your current projected screen.
That is a beautiful build and IMO very reasonable for what you have.
Que projeto maravilhoso. Parabéns pelo belo trabalho. Quem me dera possuir um destes. Tudo de bom meu amigo.
The total cost sounds big but when you consider the man hours invested, to hypothetically purchase such a thing turnkey on the commercial market, this is figure cheap. What an epic setup. Congrats. Cool hobby.
omg 12:30 had me dying
thanks for the info man! setting up a space cockp
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Just awesome mate!! Can you come to Adelaide and build me one please? I'll provide the beer and bits. Either the A-10C or F/A-18C. I take it you do use the TrackIR? How did you get this by the Missus? You forgot to add that to the cost of the build :-)
Fantastic job, well done...👍
The more I watch your videos the more I want your setup
Chi fa da se fa per tre!
Eccellente!
👍
Outstanding stuff man!
Would like to pick your brains about how you get the encoders working properly. I don't seem to be able to master the coding to Arduino. 😪😪😪
I should have had you make mine. Awesome job.
Great in depth video 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great Project !
Just discovered your videos last night. Bravo...absolutely bonkers. I'm surprised you don't have to use powered HDMI extenders.......
Mate I cant help but admire your dedication. Thats some seriously impressive work, whats your in game Nick?
Thanks mate. RomeoKilo. Flying on public servers is pretty rare for me though- I;m still ironing out a few bugs with voice comms and I 100% need them because due to my screen warp i cant see the chat window.
That is very impressive! One thing im wondering: When you want to look behind you or up, how do you do that? I see a Track IR but wouldnt that mess with the view you get from the projectors?
Awesome work!
This by far is the best cockpit for DCS . And it looks absolutely amazing. This is a work of art honestly.
Got a question though, how did you get everything to work with DCS. Like the monitor behind the panel, showing the radar and everything in those exact cutouts. The switches and lights all working. Would you be willing to make a video on that.
Oh and great ending, got have the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt.
The Main panel is run by free software called Helios, made by Gadroc. Have a look over on the ED forums for download links. You can design your own panels, and move and resize each gauge around the screen to wherever you want.
@@thewarthogproject, thank you for responding to me. I'll check it out thanks.
Your workmanship is excellent. Everyone I share this with is blown away. I personally would like to know what is required in computing power to run a setup like this; graphics card, cpu, etc. Your videos are always so clean and realistic. Keep up the great work. Thanks
Very impressive build
I would have used the physical cockpit with vr goggles that have augmented reality so you can use all the physical interfaces plus the vr experience. This makes it so you can look in all directions in the simulator. Right now when you look up you just see your ceiling with the projectors.
Hi RK...did I miss the price on the Track IR that you are using? Awesome built Mate. Been following this since day 1.
I cant thank you enuf!!!
You are a GENIUS.
Too cool! I need this.
Mate that rig is amazing well made there is no cost on fun cannot spend when 6ft under
Thanks mate, great video.
My dream is to make a F-15 cockpit to me one day... Like this A-10 here!! But in Brazil, I'm afraid cuz costs here is so highest as you financial nightmares can imagine.
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Anyway, nice job!!!
this is pretty insane (and awesome)
I’m surprised it didn’t cost more, but you did put in a LOT of your own time.
Very well done.
Well 4k is 4 x 1080p. Great job btw!
10:50 Good luck buddy (lifts up Great Northern Stubby)
For less than $10,000, you have managed to build yourself an exemplary simulator. I have looked at Open Cockpits, and their full setup is nearly $40,000. Albeit they have quite a lot going on for a 737, but still.
With the release of DCS F-14, I am feeling the itch to build myself a Tomcat cockpit. I will refer back to your videos for guidance.
Would you happen to have a video on how you modified your laser cutter? I found one for sale, and think it would be wise to do the same thing if I am going to be making my own panels.
Cheers mate
Great job!
Awesome job.
Mate i would pay to come & have a go in that amazing sim rig you have.. Open a shop with that in the middle with gaming PC around & bobs ya uncle, earn some money & build another with better more epic gear & have that bigger screen. :) I would come to that gaming cafe you made :). Bugger it Ill come work for you if you do it.
Me too!!
6 people that saw this video are jealous because their wifes won't let them build a simulator. :D
1 more bites the dust.
more like their moms won't let them build them in their basements.
"Wife Bad".
Wives last about 2-3yrs, I’m on number 3 and they’ve cost me £750,000 - approximately. Oh FFS, it took this for me to work that out? I deserve all I get - currently a Cessna 206 Millennium 6-million Bastar’d Firehawk. She also cost almost £250,000 after uprating the engine, avionics - like anyone gives a toss. Talking of which....
Dude you’re mad, for a simmer, pretty handy engineer though. Nice work!
Actually, this may be the most accurate assumption.
This plus microsoft flight sim 2020 will be breathtaking
Awesome!
One newbie question: do the controls (stick & rudder) have force feedback?
Nice job mate
Is there anyway you can do a comprehensive vid on hooking up all the electronics, power and cabling. Do you have a vid on building the left/right boxes.
Yeah im planning a video on the basics of how to get a switch to work with DCS. Have a look through my channel- there is a few videos that touch on the subject already.
whats too hate on it. i think it looks great. dudes obviously got the extra coin and creativity to do something like this and all the people who talk shiit are just mad they cant pull something off like this.
Your cost is actually quite reasonable. I was expecting a total of about $20K.
So do you get your head stuck in the ceiling if you eject ?
Awesome-Awesome-Awesome-Awesome-Awesome
Hi RomeoKilo, I am thinking of using the same screen and projector setup as you except using 2 x 4k projectors. Currently I have an overclocked CPU @ 5.0 Ghz and a single 1080TI.
Do you think that my system would be able to smoothly run 2 x 4k projectors ?
If not, would two separate GPUs (non-SLI) be possible ? Is it possible to set up DCS world so that each projector uses a separate (non-SLI) GPU ? If so, how ?
Hi ... first of all thx for these awesome videos ... but may I ask some question ... how did you get all the gauges and the horizon into the panel ... I guess they are not physical but displayed on the screen behind ... is there an extra plugin for dcs? Will you do a software programming / configuration video? I would be very interested in this. BR
The gauges are done with free software called Helios. Have a look here www.captzeen.com/helios/index.asp
Just out of curiosity, I get how much fun this must have been to create, but how much do you use this simulator? Do you use it every day? Just ballpark, 10 hours a month? 20?
Bro you have to check out the winwing f/a-18 hotas. I know it's not s-10 but the build quality is unmatched 1000000%
The MFD's lcd screens, where did you got them?
"You probably already have a HOTAS Setup" Oh yes sir I do, I have an almighty Thrustmaster HOTAS 4 :D
Just got DCS World 2 days ago, completely new to flight sims and wow DCS is pretty cool to fly on, shame it costs so much for DLC content but I understand the work involved in the development of these games and the features it has. But it does limit the player base a lot.
This is a work of art. Simple as that. I love that you explained you didn’t just drop the funds in one go. Gives the rest of us a little hope we could do this ourselves.
Congratulations
That is freaking cool , just needs a 1000 watt amp and speakers for the Brrrraaaaaatttt
Im a beginner with electronics and I was wondering how to transfer information from in game aka lights from rwr to actual LEDS or gauges. I'm planning to make a Beryoza rwr panel
Here is where to start- dcs-bios.a10c.de/docs/v0.7.0/userguide.html Also- have a read through the very long DCS-BIOS thread on the ED Forums. Lots of info in there and will take a while to understand.
But what happens when you look up? Does't that mess the immersion up?
Wicked cool setup! So roughly $500USD? hahaha
if i come across something that says "some assembly required"...i'm running the other way before i get to "required"
Good job. Motivate more people to be creative
Awesome simpit. Can you please list the parts and components you used to refresh you rudder pedals.
I used a LeoBoder BU0836X and one of their hall sensors as well. It was pretty easy, i just pulled out all the old PCBs, hot glued the new hall sensor in place and wired it to the card. 100 times more accurate.
Cool, thanks for that. I've got some saitek pedals that aren't working.
So all this is in Australian dollars? What's that in US $? $47.50?
Just joking... No offence ment. This is the coolest set up I have seen. I figured you spent like 20K on it. I don't know crap about computers, I can barely operate this phone I'm on (and I'm probably doing that wrong too). I still enjoy the videos, thanks for the walk through.
The way our Aussie dollar is travelling right now - more like US$40.00!!!
Let’s see some flying