Individual mapping auto gearbox

Dear BeamNG Drive team and comunity members,

I appologise if I'm posting this in the wrong section and if so, feel free to move this thread or warn me so I can re-post it in the correct place.

I have a built simulator inside a 1999 Opel Vectra which used a G27 wheel which broke. I am now going full DIY and making my own steering, my own pedals and gearbox. I would like to be able to interchange between an H shifter and a PRND gear selector, but BeamNG does not allow individual auto gearbox mappings. Is there any way to mess with some things to allow it to be done? If not, will it be possible in the future?

I would like to know this before I started the auto gear selector, since beamng would probably be the only game where I could use it and it's not something done in an hour

Thanks,
Fradias

 

wait... so you have a car in your house?

 

This may be more of an intermediary step but, if you are building the mechanism yourself, could you not use the movement of the auto stick as the input rather than where it ends up - ie moving it to towards you is one input say x and moving it away is z? Would that work? It could still lock in place at each step but that wouldn't be the input.

I could possibly clarify if necessary

 

Yes, I have an opel vectra B with the front and rear end trimmed off inside my house

So you're suggesting I set an axis so it sends coordinates as to where the position of the lever is for each place? As in, the P is coordinate 8 in the x axis and the R coordinate 6 and so on? That's quite feasible and easily possible, I could even use the joystick off of a regular gamepad for that and then just simply program it so that each position matches an input. But that's pretty slow responding and not as accurate as I'd like, so I'll just use contacts

 

What are you using to read your custom gearstick into the PC anyway?

I ask for 2 reasons, a) depending on method I may have a solution and b) I find it damn interesting anyway

 

The contacts will be connected to a normal game pad so that each position is recognized as a button

 

My idea likely would not work then. Was going to suggest having 2 sets of buttons, positive connections all wired in parallel but an spdt switch on the ground. Flicking the switch would effectively engage or disengage 1 set of buttons, pretty much turns them into a mode switch.

If an arduino or something was being used to emulate a gamepad (doable) then I would have just suggested having a mode button in software.

 

Sorry for the late reply, but I'm not really following up your idea, could you please explain it better? And yes I do know what an Arduino is and I've seen multiple projects done with them before