C Ray's Sim Trucking

 I have been working on more and more dash cluster combos.  I love having the option to switch it up so maybe it will better suit the truck I'm driving at that time.  I have been scouring the web for every gauge I can find.  Here are a few I'm working on this week.   First up is a older Kenworth dashboard.  This is bits and pieces I have found.  I believe this came out of a 80s t600 the VDO gauges are really cool.  I'm working on a better needle and I have the turn signals animated.  I should have a final version in a week so stay tuned.   This set is a awesome AutoMeter set of Antique gauges.  These look really good and I have a working odometer.  I need to build out the rest of the gauges and include a tact or Speedometer & Tact combo. Thats all for me today.  Like I said stay tuned ill release the final versions soon.  Check out my previous posts for more dashboards.  Maybe a week or so.  Take care all C Ray Sim Trucking

I have been trying to step up my realism and immersion for truck simulation.  I have always appreciated a good gauge cluster.  Seeing all the gauges moving around is a cool touch to any sim.  I wasn't able to find a dashboard that fit my needs so I figured lets just create one. So lets start with some pictures and what needs to be done.  We will start with the Fuel Gauge.   Using all the wizardry of copy, paste and erase.  I was able to leave gimp with a image of the gauge with no needle.  You will see its not perfect..  A few touchups will have it looking perfect. From here this is where the fun starts.   For me I found that it was easiest to just copy an existing needle and its settings from another project and cater it to the new gauge.  So lets take a look at that.  Here we have a simple dash that consists of 3 gauges.  Fuel, Oil Pressure and Oil Temp.   Lets borrow a dial gauge from another project.  I will simply copy the SpeedGauge Dial over to our gauge and position it corr

Sim Dashboard   Sim Dashboard is a great android application that you can use to transform you old phone into a awesome dashboard for pretty much anything game related.  Sim Dashboard supports all the major simulators from Assetto Corsa to Farm Simulator.  This isn't just for PC users consoles are supported too!  You can create your own dashboards or pick from a treasure trove of great community created dashboards.   Its definitely a must have for any simulator enthusiast.   https://www.stryder-it.de/simdashboard/ For me I have seen better performance on weak or very old devices than I did with SimHub.  I have a tablet that cannot stream or play youtube. I thought it was mostly useless. It was never able to display dashboards from simhub smoothly.  It was always a few steps behind.  But with Sim Dashboard it works great. I also found they work just fine together no issues to report so far.  I have run as many as 5 devices at the same time and had no issues. Visiting the Community D

  Hello I hope all is well with everyone.  I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a fine individual on youtube who goes by  BlackWolf13.  Please go check out his channel he has a lot of awesome videos. Link to Bl@ckWolf Well shortly after finding his channel I saw this absolutely stunning truck.  I had been on a quest to locate and test out all the cabover mods available for American Truck Simulator. Well this find was a real treat.  I will say the Kenworth K200 is king in Australia but out here in the states I don't know that I have ever seen one in person.  They are such a beautiful truck its a shame we don't have them here.  I just went with the defaults.  There are tons of options to add.  There is a really cool rock guard you can add to the windshield.  I highly recommend you check it out for yourself and see what kind of customizations you can come up with.  I may have to buy a couple more.  These would be a fantastic truck to haul cattle into Mexico with.  Or perhaps we

  The Rail Export Depot. This is a small and compact depot with lots of options as far as parking.  There is usually obstacles galore so be patient not to ding up your truck or trailer.   For me the 3rd person view is the easiest view for me to use when parking.  Although the lean out the window is my personally favorite.  A lot of time I have the most fun trying to park these monsters.  Some days I got it while others it can take me what feels like all day.  So you know what they say?  Practice makes perfect.   So lets explore a depot and see how we can go about parking this trailer.  I will give you three examples based on some known parking and loading spots.   Sometimes I will just drive around looking for places to park that could be difficult.   What is your favorite depot to deliver to? Do you like to take the challenge of parking or do you just skip it?

  Well that didn't take long at all.  The find folks over at Reforma Mod have updated so we can once again explore south of the border in American Truck Simulator.  I must say I really enjoyed my time spent in Mexico when I played before on version 1.49 I'm really excited to check it out. So you want to check it out yourself?  Ill show you where to go and what you need to do. First lets take a trip over to  Reforma Mods Here you will download two different files.  The Reforma Map and the Mega Resources Pack. You will be redirected to Truckymods.io don't be alarms this is a great place for mods and is a common depot to download the latest mods for ATS and ETS2.  Personally I get all my mods from either the Steam Workshop or TruckyMods.io Then its just as simple as copy and paste and you are off to the races. Make sure you place both the Reforma Map and MegaResources files into your Mod folder in your My Documents\American Truck Simulator folder. The last thing we need to do