[WIP] Realistic Gearshift

Now it works
Thanks for your work, this is great with the Aussie legends cars.

Works with Automobilista as well

 

I've edited the Grind_default.wav to make it sound a bit more realistic.

 

Did the same thing way back for rF1.
But i didnt wanted it to be more realistic, but to be much more aggressive.

 

Just my opinion as an H user from a long time.
I will never use that. I don't really need that. What I need, or what every H shifter really needs is not a grinding tranny. We need a force feedback shifter.

 

See update in first post.

 

Massive thanks @Seven Smiles !!!

Question: do we use the EXE's before every drive or is it an installation?

 

Just run gearshift.exe each time before loading rFactor. It sits there watching the shifter and clutch.

In fact once gearshift is loaded you can hear the graunching sound if you shift without pressing the clutch and it will be firing 0s at whatever window has focus. Part of the testing was to do that in Notepad:

 

Cheers, bud.
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BTW is AutoHotKey coded into it all and i dont need to run it too at the same time? Im so happy you guys help the community with things like this. Coding/scripting is hard! Thank you.

 

No I translated it from AHK into Python and compiled it into the two exes, just run them.

 

For me at least it’s much easier than car or track modding.

That is my one go at track modding (for rF1). I later added a building (there is only one at Llandow) and a bit more detail but the amount of work still required to build even such a simple track to anything more than a laughable quality seemed enormous. As for cars... well, let’s just say that my square building didn’t look anything like the real thing!

 

One important check I forgot - doing a fresh install as another user on my PC
There's a new release that provides the essential default values if there is no existing gearbox.ini
I also edited the readme to say that you need Grind_default.wav too.

 

Thank you. Where do we put the .WAV file?

 

All three files (and the .ini file that's created) go together wherever you want. The whole thing is completely independent, it just reads the clutch and shifter inputs and bangs out Numpad 0 to whatever window has focus.

 

Can someone walk me through how to make this work
I made a folder and put gearshift.exe, configurer.exe, grind_default.wav in it.
I clicked gearshift.exe and a window briefly open and shut again and it created gearshift.ini (all fields empty).
I started rf2 and put numpad zero as neutral.
From there nothing happens in game, no grinding sound on a clutchless shift and it goes into gear with no problem.
My shifter and clutch is a G27 configured as joystick 2 in windows.

 

Problem for me as well. Created an issue - https://github.com/TonyWhitley/gearshift/issues

 

elbo: You have to run Configurer first, see the readme on the Github page. I’ll make gearshift run it if there is no gearshift.ini.

zaphman: thanks, I’ll implement your change.

 

Changes for both made in V1.5.27. I also added some start up dialogue to gearshift.py along with sanity checking.

 

this is really nice, but we can't control who is use it and who not, is this correct? I mean for online races

 

No you can't. It is to be used for your own personal growth, not to go faster...

 

I don't want it faster, I want it more real