Gametrix JetSeat User manual

Dream Sim Team
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Introduction

Dream Sim Team
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Introduction
Many computer games generate feedback effects which are transferred to the
player in the form of vibration on the joystick, a game wheel or the gamepad.
These effects allow to transfer movement of the car along not the flat road, vi-
bration of the motor of the airplane, receiving damages and feeling of overloads
to the game device. On the one hand - it promotes immersion in a game, with
another –management becomes more complex (the wheel escapes from
hands, at the joystick and the gamepad the sight gets off). Therefore, players
often disconnect the disturbing effects.
Special devices which don't prevent management have been developed for
transfer of feelings of the atmosphere of a game and allow the player to plunge
into the game world.
Game vibrocape –the unique game device allowing to move to a new level of
immersion in computer games. Now you will feel all explosions, shots, blows
and collisions all body as if you are in the center of events.
The Gametrix company has developed the unique device –a game JetSeat vi-
brocape. The cape doesn't prevent exact management since vibroeffects are
transferred directly to a chair of the player.
One more device which deserves attention - ButtKicker. The device will allow
you to feel physically all that occurs in your games and simulators.
Feel knock of machine-gun fire, rotation of blades of the helicopter, explosions,
vibration of racing motors, the gear shift moment, braking of the landed air-
plane, departure on a roadside, promotion of the chassis and forcing of the en-
gine.
It is a new step in approach of computer games to reality!
This manual is documentation of the user the data necessary for mastering and
understanding of operation of the program are provided In a manual. Descrip-
tion of the user interface and editor of effects.
For communication of users there is a forum
SimShaker and Gametrix vibe cushions (in English | in Russian),
SimShaker and Buttkickers (in English).
SimShaker devblog (in English | in Russian)
On which it is possible to gather necessary information on the program and also
to ask the interesting question.
Dream Sim Team
wishes pleasant pastime
behind a favourite game.

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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................ 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... 3
1. SIMSHAKER - WINGS USER GUIDE................................................................................................ 4
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 4
INSTALLATION.............................................................................................................................................. 4
DEMO PERIOD ............................................................................................................................................. 4
ACTIVATION ................................................................................................................................................ 4
UNINSTALLATION ......................................................................................................................................... 5
UPDATES .................................................................................................................................................... 6
ADDING A FIREWALL RULE ............................................................................................................................. 7
CUSTOMIZATION OF JETSEAT VIBRATION PATTERNS............................................................................................. 7
HOW TO CUSTOMIZE UWV.FILES FOR GAMETRIX VIBE CUSHION............................................................................. 8
2. USING SSWNGS WITH AUDIO BASS-SHAKERS .............................................................................. 9
3. TIPS & TRICKS GAMETRIX VIBE CUSHION ................................................................................... 13
4. HONOR WALL............................................................................................................................. 17
ВСТУПЛЕНИЕ ...................................................................................................................................... 19
5. SIMSHAKER - WINGS РУКОВОДСТВО ПОЛЬЗОВАТЕЛЯ ............................................................. 20
СИСТЕМНЫЕ ТРЕБОВАНИЯ .......................................................................................................................... 20
УСТАНОВКА .............................................................................................................................................. 20
ДЕМО РЕЖИМ .......................................................................................................................................... 20
АКТИВАЦИЯ.............................................................................................................................................. 20
ДЕИНСТАЛЯЦИЯ........................................................................................................................................ 21
ОБНОВЛЕНИЕ ........................................................................................................................................... 22
СОЗДАНИЕ ПРАВИЛА ДЛЯ ФАЕРВОЛА ........................................................................................................... 23
СОЗДАНИЕ СОБСТВЕНЫХ ФАЙЛОВ ................................................................................................................ 23
РЕДАКТИРОВАНИЕ ЭФФЕКТОВ НАКИДКИ ....................................................................................................... 24
6. ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИ SSWINGS СОВМЕСТНО С AUDIO BASS-SHAKERS ........................................... 26
7. ПОДСКАЗКИ И ХИТРОСТИ НАКИДКИ GAMETRIX...................................................................... 30
8. СТЕНА ПОЧЁТА .......................................................................................................................... 34

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SimShaker - Wings User Guide
SimShaker - Wings (or SSWngs for short) is a mediation software connecting a
supported flight simulator game and Gametrix JetSeat or bass-shaker hardware
to provide immersing event driven vibration FXs (special effects). Currently Fal-
con BMS is supported. Support for some other flight simulators will be added
soon.
Operating System Windows 7 or higher;
USB port or/and a dedicated sound card*;
Net Framework 4.5 or higher installed** (natively installed in Windows
10);
Gametrix JetSeat Control Panel software installed** if you want to use
SimShaker with a Gametrix JetSeat.
* - sound card is required if you want to use SimShaker with a bass-shaker(s);
** - visit our Downloads page.
To install the software please download a beta SSWngs setup file (link) and
open it.
You can run SSWngs up to 6 times by 20 minutes without activation. After 20
minutes SSWngs will stop and you will need to restart it. Hence you will be able
to test the application with your favorite game titles prior to purchase.
To use SimShaker - Wings software you should buy a licence in Andre's e-
Shop and activate the software. Shortly after the purchase I will provide you by
e-mail with a Login-Key pair.
If SimShaker - Wings main window is not started, you will want to open it by
clicking Manual Start button at SimShaker-Wings Launcher window. In order to
activate the software, press Activate Software button at SimShaker -
Wings window, fill in Login and Key fields, agree with End User Licence Agree-
ment and press Activate button. Please check to be sure that after activation
the button has become inactive and contains the text "Software is Activated".
You are granted 5 activations. Each activation is tied to a particular personal
computer (PC) and is valid for both beta and released version of the software.

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If you completely reinstall your operating system, you will need to activate the
software again. If you have used up all activation granted, please contact me
via Help Desk (or any other appropriate way) to replenish it.
In case of fraudulent use of the software, I may refuse your request and (or)
invalidate activations granted.
You can uninstall the software via Windows Control Panel - Programs and Fea-
tures tool, using its Uninstall option.
If you want to completely remove SimShaker - Wings from your PC for good,
please, do also following actions (warning - your current activation will be
lost):
1) Remove %LOCALAPPDATA%\SimShaker-Wings folder, containing settings,
manually, as show at the picture below.
2) If you had activated "Start Launcher with Windows" option, you may need to
delete SimShaker - Wings shortcut in %USERPROFILE%\Start
Menu\Programs\StartUp folder manually.

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SimShaker - Wings User Guide
This example is for Windows 10.
The software is designed to update automatically. New version check performs
at every SimShaker-Wings Launcher start. If new version is found, at the next
start you will be prompted to install the update.
You can roll back the last update via Windows Control Panel - Programs and
Features tool, using its Change option. Some updates are required and may not
be rolled back or skipped.

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Note: During installation process some antiviral software (Symantec Endpoint
Protection, Dr.Web, etc.) may block files download. In such case we would rec-
ommend temporarily switch off protection.
For some games a network UDP protocol is used to obtain game physics data.
You should allow to add a firewall rule for SimShaker to receive network con-
nections inside your PC. If the firewall is enabled, a prompt window should pop
up when the game is started for the first time or after SimShaker was updated.
SimShaker-Wings app is designed to look first for customized FX file in User
Documents\SimShaker-Wings FXs\JetSeat\Customized folder. If the file not
found, it will be loaded from User Documents\SimShaker-Wings
FXs\JetSeat\Base folder. You should put in the 'Customized' folder only files you
want to be different from the initial "Base" set.
To modify JetSeat FX files with .uwv extension you can use specially designed
UWVeditor app. To start it press the a button at SimShaker-Wings Launcher.

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SimShaker - Wings User Guide
1. Open up one of effect files from your folder and configure vibration pat-
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Axe X - Time Scale,
Axe Y - Vibration Amplitude (0 - 255)
Left Mouse Button action:
- Drag vibration points;
Right Mouse Button actions:
- Add Vibration;
- Remove Vibration;
- Add Vibration Point;
- Remove Vibration Point;
- Expand Time Scale;
- Shrink Time Scale.
To know corresponding uwv. file(s) for a particular effect place mouse pointer
on its check box at SimShaker base module GUI and read a tooltip shown.
Note: for inactive (gray) check boxes tooltips are unavailable, please feel free to
ask me about corresponding .uwv files.
2. After reloading SimShaker will use your updated .uwv files to create vi-
brations. Files in your folder will not be auto updated.
Bass-shakers support may be purchased as an option. The main idea here is
that player can use both JetSeat and bass-shaker(s) in conjunction, getting
more distinctive FXs, since JetSeat and bass-shakers have different vibration
patterns. To achieve best sensation results I would recommend to "route" (by

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Using SSWngs with audio bass-shakers
Gain sliders) some FXs to the JetSeat, some FXs to the bass-shaker(s), and
some to the both devices.
Of course, good results may be achieved with the only JetSeat or the bass-
shaker(s) as well.
Most of controls seems to be self-explaining (at least for me), so I'd like to
comment one of them.
Max. Channels number defines how much audio channels to conduct.
1 (mono) - very simple, is suitable if you operate just 1 bass-shaker.
2 (stereo) - default value, is suitable if you operate 2 bass-shakers. I assume
that bass-shakers are placed left and right from the player. Out of the box
SimShaker is configured for such placement. But that may customized by the
player.
6 (or 5.1) - suitable if you operate from 3 to 6 bass-shakers. I assume that it
mostly will be 4, placed on the corners of the player's rig. Out of the box
SimShaker is configured for such placement, audio channels 1, 2, 5, 6 are in
use. But that may be customized by the player as well. This (up to 6 channels
support) option requires ASIO drivers for a sound card to be used (for instance,
universal ASIO4All driver).
Default set of sound samples is optimized for Buttkicker GR2 model, but it may
be customized for other bass-shakers types and models by users and shared
with other community members by any appropriate means. Please see my two-
step "how to" instructions on the pictures below.
Step 1. Making SSWngs to use customized samples (example for 2 channels configuration).