Wonder if anyone makes a CONTROLLER with TWO gear shifters (TWIN Gearshifters, Old School) for sim game trucking?(E.G. Real world video link included)

[YOGI]

THIS..could be Fun (did this in my time as a trucker) This video (NOT MINE) shows a LOW end bull spitter gear (high/low button)
The main ♥♥♥♥♥♥.(closest stick to driver) is like shifting a Main Gear stick in modern trucks
The auxilary ♥♥♥♥♥♥ is the "Gear Splitter" in modern trans...that is now Electonic controlled with buttons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBvKqxzvD6s

[Fury6]

Not necessary, just plug in and configure two shifters and you're done. You'd have to design a gearbox and layout pair to make it work the way you're intending, though...

[YOGI]

Originally posted by Fury6:

Not necessary, just plug in and configure two shifters and you're done. You'd have to design a gearbox and layout pair to make it work the way you're intending, though...

Im with ya..good idea..but Consider if it had an H pattern on each Stick...joined similar to an Xbox controller in size....and the Sticks were PLASTIC topped as the OLD SCHOOL shifters were (game controller maybe 5-6 inches in height similar to other after market game sim controllers (wingman light eg?)
got the Picture now?

[YOGI]

the LEFT stick Should be an "H" pattern...while the RIGHT stick should be a "U" shaped pattern (if this old man's memory serves me rightly only 40+ years ago I believe....)

[SternLX]

That's a Spicer 16 in that video more than likely. 2 gear boxes called Main and Aux. each with 4 gears. Funny thing about driving that transmission though. Even though there are 16 "gears" there is only really 13 forward ratios.

Anyway, to answer your question. No single controller I know of is out there that replicates this. You could do it with 2 Thrustmaster TH8A's however.

[YOGI]

Originally posted by SternLX:

That's a Spicer 16 in that video more than likely. 2 gear boxes called Main and Aux. each with 4 gears. Funny thing about driving that transmission though. Even though there are 16 "gears" there is only really 13 forward ratios.

Anyway, to answer your question. No single controller I know of is out there that replicates this. You could do it with 2 Thrustmaster TH8A's however.

Ah well.it wil become a "Lost Art" one day...thanks for the Mem refresher tho...Kinda Sad..this Kinda stuff is fast becoming history?(Weened on the dame things) Sure had a MESS of Backup gears to choose from..and those gears either way with the TWO Transmissions were "BATTLESHIPS" never needing service!

[YOGI]

Go me thinking...gonna FIND a spare xbox controller and try to FIT some "Patterns" over each controller..and Extend the Game Sticks? Might work?

[Fury6]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Go me thinking...gonna FIND a spare xbox controller and try to FIT some "Patterns" over each controller..and Extend the Game Sticks? Might work?

Not the way you're thinking of, at least not without a specifically designed transmission & layout pair.

[YOGI]

Originally posted by Fury6:

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Go me thinking...gonna FIND a spare xbox controller and try to FIT some "Patterns" over each controller..and Extend the Game Sticks? Might work?

Not the way you're thinking of, at least not without a specifically designed transmission & layout pair.

Hmm...gotta LOOK at ETS2/Ats Shift setup a bit harder then? if the have TWO axis usable in the shifter..then it "MAY" work...otherwise some "Dirty emails' to the devs...may be the only recorse maybe? (lol)

[YOGI]

Range splitter pattern may work

[Fury6]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Originally posted by Fury6:

Not the way you're thinking of, at least not without a specifically designed transmission & layout pair.

Hmm...gotta LOOK at ETS2/Ats Shift setup a bit harder then? if the have TWO axis usable in the shifter..then it "MAY" work...otherwise some "Dirty emails' to the devs...may be the only recorse maybe? (lol)

Nothing to do with the devs, they've given us the system that supports it, it's up to us to design the gearbox and layouts to put it into effect, you can't blame the devs for not providing something at your personal whim -.-.

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Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Range splitter pattern may work

Not the way you want them to :) Dude, there's no way around this, if you want a main->auxilliary type gearbox setup you're going to have to design a gearbox and layout pair to make it work.

[YOGI]

WOAH ..Fury ...dude im KIDDING...ok (Friggin lack of emoticons on steam pisses me off sometimes)
I am a true fan of the work gone in by the devs..fer sure BUT...I may be onto something here? Can you confirm it sometime? (thanks)....Range splitter pattern? Two sticks axis's?) (Might be doable?) and then....Im gonna tear something apart(got enough "Hardware Junk" here..

[Fury6]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

WOAH ..Fury ...dude im KIDDING...ok (Friggin lack of emoticons on steam pisses me off sometimes)

Ah crap, sorry, heh.

As for range/splitter, no it absolutely will *not* get you what you want (if what you want is a main->auxilliary gearbox setup). However, you *can* get what you want by, one more time, designing a gearbox and layout file pair that effects it. You don't need any more hardware than a second shifter (or something that can operate as a second shifter).

You need a transmission file with the gearing grouped appropriately and a layout file that maps those gears onto the correct respective hardware slots, that's it (well besides the extra shifter).

[YOGI]

6&2 pattern may work? Main 6 speed, aux is SHIFT from keystokes? (2 speed would be the modern spitter?) Screaming Deamons used 6&2 in my days (Gutless POS's) lotsa UMPH in em...as long as you kept the revs up...let em DIE in RPM..and it took dam near a 1/2 hour to wind em up again (loL) Trick...was to NEVER drop a Gear in this crap engines....

[Fury6]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

6&2 pattern may work? Main 6 speed, aux is SHIFT from keystokes? (2 speed would be the modern spitter?) Screaming Deamons used 6&2 in my days (Gutless POS's) lotsa UMPH in em...as long as you kept the revs up...let em DIE in RPM..and it took dam near a 1/2 hour to wind em up again (loL) Trick...was to NEVER drop a Gear in this crap engines....

Yeah, naturally a two-speed auxilliary can just use either splitter or range, so long as both aren't used in the main box as well (can't think of a box that does that though). All that's needed for this case is the layout file.

I've done that already with the layout for the Mack R's 10 & 12 speed boxes:

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1463066263/1738841319816761790/

[YOGI]

HMM...lets see...4070 INTERNATIONAL COE w/230 Cummins (non-turbo), 5&4 Trans...(Base Orange Color) with "Floating Ball Bearing Roller Platform in Sleeper for Team Driving(yep..platform on roller bearings kept it "RockandRoll" over crappy roads back then) SWB due to Length laws in Canada....and Twin Fans on Dash...for heating Cooling. (NOPE...no A/C back then...open the window a sweat on a hll in summer...stomp yer Feet on the floorboards in winter to prevent frostbite(its a wonder theres any OLD truckers like me still alive? LOL