Change behaviour of signals

Hi , complete noob on beamng , I'm trying to change the left / right signals so that they're not toggled .... ie whilst pressing down a controller button the signal is ON , when releasing the button the signal goes OFF.

Any advice on how to do this would be gratefully received.

 

One push=on
Second push=off
It’s that simple.

 

Hi thanks for replying, I've built a realistic cockpit with real car controls (trying to teach my kids to drive) . I could do with some advice on customising the bindings behaviour for the turn signals. the signal needs to turn on when a switch is closed then stay on until the switch is open again.... but the default behaviour is to toggle , so as it is I have to turn the left signal on , signal light starts flashing, turn the left signal switch off ... it keeps flashing....I have to turn the left signal on again to stop the light flashing.

I presume I need to edit some code somewhere , I did find a LUA file with a toggle_left_signal function, but can't find where that gets called from.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

The signal turns off immediately, try it on your keyboard.

 

Hi Phym, yes I know, but I've got it wired up to a real car signal control stalk, I. need to change the behaviour as mentioned above.

 

no, they want the signal to be triggered only while the input is pressed, like a real stalk would work, and not for the input to act as a toggle.

OP, I sadly have no idea how to do it, but it definitely seems doable if someone with experience with BeamNG's lua jumps in

 

Wait, are you talking about the animation?
Or are you saying the turn signal will be on only when the user is holding the button? Wouldn’t that counterattack the much easier system currently?

 

read the thread again. they have a replica of a real car interior with an actual turn signal stalk, it doesnt work properly with the current controls

 

How come? The stalk just stays down until you press the button. Or am I missing something, as the wording OP has is very confusing.

 

Sorry if it's confusing .... this is what I need

button down=on
button up=off

instead of

button pressed once = on
button pressed again = off

 

Oh, I see.

 

I sadly can't help you. The lack of support for custom controllers, is really holding beams potential back... My plans to make a custom dash with indicator stick, real buttons and realistic automatic gear lever were spoiled by beams lacking keybindings in the past (they should take an example from ED with DCS)... But I'd love to see what you have... Do you have a photo, or is it just a plan for now...
Also I guess you could configure a Arduino to generate a custom button press sequence translated from the sensors of the indicator stick... Something like: "left indicator on - left indicator of" to "comma - comma again". Since beam supports OutGauge you could even get the automatic "return to indicator off when going over the neutral steering position" by ways of servo motor to work... But I'm no expert on Arduino stuff, tho I bet it's rather easy with a little research and tinkering...

 

All game cars have automatic turn signal cancel after a turn. With your setup just switch the lever back to center?

 

It must be quite a simple change, as the parking brake works like this.

I've got the clutch, manual gears working a charm, you can assign a different switch to each gear, it is pretty much as a real car would be, just the damned turn signals. The. pedals work using an arduino pro , the gearshifter uses one of those generic USB joystick boards (they're about £8 on amazon) , and I've wired the turn signals onto that.... it's so close

 

This is actually a super cool idea and I think you should document your progress on this super realistic be,ang sim in another thread!

 

Yeah, that works , but it's just not perfect... e.g. if you're pulled over at the side of the road, and then turn the signal on to set off. Did I mention I'm using this to teach my kids to drive ? so trying to get it as realistic as possible.

 

I mean I would just use... ya know... an actual car. But you do you.

 

We've hit a bit of a backlog in the UK since lockdown, very hard to get driving lessons round my area. I've got 17 year old twins. Adding them to my car insurance would be nearly £3000 , sending them out with an instructor is £25 per hour each ..... this sim has cost me about £30 in bits so far...plus you know, I love a challenge ! If I can save them even 1 lesson each it's paid for itself, and I can play my racing sims on it

 

I sadly really can't help you but I hope someone experimented can help you on this sim. The idea is sick.

 

Also could do with some more maps that drive on the left. I'm using an Australian map atm, which is very similar to UK road signs, but it's up in the mountains , could do with something a bit more urban with a few more junctions / traffic lights etc.