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 correctly. You can also select the default Dial Gauge and build it from scratch its up to you.
Now lets take a look at the settings I'm using and I will show you what I changed to get it working for me. First thing I did was match up the major ticks with the gauge picture I have in use.
Here you can see I have set the majortickcolor to red so they would be visible. Once you have them aligned you can choose transparent for the color. So now I have my ticks lined up lets set our value. You will see our Value range is from 0-100. Below that is our scale. This will control how far the needle will traverse on the dial. You will want your start angle to be at the bottom of the gauge and the sweep angle to end at the end of the gauge. In our case that would be start at E and end at F. The magic will take place when we tie the telemetry to the gauge needle.
Here is the ncalc formula for fuel percentage. To access this you will click on the calc icon you can see its green in the screenshot. The value it reads from the game will be used to move the gauge needle. The last thing I did was size the needle so it fit the gauge. From here we are off to the races.
Take a look at this short I created to show the gauges in action.
If you would like to download the Dash Templates they are available on my Discord
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
Lets take a look at SimHub this is a stellar application that shouldn't be ignored. There is a lot you can do with it and you will learn very quickly its a awesome tool to have in your belt. This is a great way to use old phones and tablets and external displays for information on your favorite support game. Check out this picture I have a speedometer cluster and one of my own dashboards running on a old phone and tablet. Here is an example of a couple dashboards I created. This Dashboard displays all kinds of great information on both the game and my PC. I have a route advisor at the top so I can easily spot the next gas station, rest stop or service station. Below I have everything from my FPS to where I'm going. This dashboard has been my way of learning from the elders of Simhub. This is actually a Frankenstein of many great dashboards I have found over time. Let's take a moment to see what's going on behind the scenes of SimHub. We will focus on the fue
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