Short history about this, skip it if you don't care;
A few years ago I started a project for myself, a dashboard that combines all necessary information and some control features. Over the years this expanded tremendously to the point where I am right now, featuring a virtual style dashboard with everything you might need, some controls and currently a positional view system. I wondered, if this is so extensive, why not give others the option to use it, so I decided to publish it! Now my goal has become to revolutionize the "second monitor dashboard" and make it much more than just that so that you are not wasting your second monitor just by having some gauges that your truck already shows you anyways.
Now that that's out of the way, you might wonder what makes this Dashboard so "ultimate", well it's just stupidly over engineered and the plans I have only expand on that claim. A list of highlights:
- Overall a rather virtual, clear and minimalistic design, easy to use yet much to see
- Big main gauge that shows basically everything important, including Speed and dynamic RPM gauge, a real time clock, usable handbrake indicator, fuel, gear, cruise control, odometer and some light indicators and a view extra things
- An information areaconsisting of four panels (contents include but are not limited to):
- truck information showing air pressure, temperature, engine status
- cargo information for remaining time, total distance, weight and damage, as well as a usable coupling indicator
- fuel information including average consumption, distance until refuel or fuel amount
- navigation information containing a map, speed limit indicator and in-game ETE as well as real life ETE and ETA (Beta feature -> still in development, might be inaccurate, still tweaking the values)
- A control panel area:
- Suspension control
- Window control
- Cruise control
- If I come up with useful ideas this will expand!
- Orientation views(something I haven't seen anywhere else, intended to virtualize the feeling of pitch and roll for traversing rough terrain as well as visualizing the steering angle when reversing):
- Reverse view for showing steering amount in reverse
- Pitch view for showing pitch of the truck
- Roll view for showing roll of the truck
- Reverse + Pitch also show lifted axles and all views show if any tires are off the ground
- All views are automated based on some situations that (in my opinion) seemed sensible
Planned ideas include:
- Light controls via dashboard buttons
- Event popups (ferry, tolls, etc)
- I also try to stay up to date to API changes, I have a lot of ideas which the API doesn't cover yet such as:
- The new automatic lights and wipers, visualization of pre-collision system and lane assist (upcoming ETS2 1.50 feature)
- Weather reports and GPS data for the on-dashboard map
- many more...
- but since I am dependent on what the Telemetry API has to offer, I have to wait for SCS to implement any of these, if ever. But, they are on the list and will be tackled as soon as there may be changes to the Telemetry.
Feature Overview
Now if I convinced you, download the dashboard right now!
Here you can find a quick guide to setting it up and all the features it has:
Getting Started
