I've been learning how to make SimHub overlays this week, because I'm about to compete in a race with the Toyota TS040 LMP1 hybrid, and I wasn't satisfied with any of the builtin apps that are supposed to display information about the hybrid system. Additionally, the TS040 doesn't even use half the stuff that can be part of a hybrid system, so turning on the kitchen sink of apps would just be meaningless.
So, I made my own.
In detail:
Most things are labelled, but here's what's not:
Some known quirks:
So, I made my own.
In detail:
Most things are labelled, but here's what's not:
- The purple gauge on the left is hybrid charge level. Number on top is charge percentage, and appears only when it's not 100%. The indicator at the bottom is the current deployment strategy.
- The blue gauge on the right indicates how much of your ERS deployment limit is still available this lap. It is also a very large numeric display in the upper-right. This was the most important feature of the dashboard for me, as it's helpful to see this at a glance in order to come up with a decent manual deployment strategy.
- The two percentages in the middle-left (under brake bias) are the average and highest damage ratings that are recorded on the car. This gives you an indication of the health of the car and how bad your repairs might be when you pit.
- The boxes that look like tire data in the middle-right are, indeed, tire data. The percentages are current tire wear/grip, the numbers are tire pressure, and the border of each box changes color to indicate tire temperature.
- There is an extra bar that pops up over the current lap time with special alerts.
- If you're carrying a cut penalty, it will appear with "PENALTY" and your remaining slowdown time.
- If you are in the pits, it will appear with "PIT LIMITER ENGAGED".
- When you are approaching one lap of fuel remaining in the tank, it will flash a warning to "BOX THIS LAP".
- If you break the car to the point where it won't run anymore, it pops up a Dark Souls-style "YOU DIED".
Some known quirks:
- SimHub gauges traction control settings using the actual slip level coefficient for the car's physics. Some cars are set up such that level 1 and 2 provide the same slip setting. The Toyota TS040 is one of these. So the TC stages will appear on the HUD as "OFF", "2", "2" again, then "3", etc. If you know of a workaround for this, please let me know.
