Simhub Dashstudio Tutorial Step By Step Guide

so within simub we have dash studio now if you're not familiar what dash studio is it basically allows you to connect your phone or possibly a tablet an hdmi screen a fourth uh like a fourth monitor um a usb d480 and so on so basically it lets you uh display a dashboard or a map overlay or say timings for the for the race for the people's in it and so on there's so many different options so what i'm going to do today is i'm going to go over studio in general and i'm also going to show you how you can edit the dashboards so let's go [Music] so here we are inside simup and as you can see on the left hand side with all these tabs we've got games car set in statistics and dash studio so this is the one we're going to be looking at today just simply click on this and you can see all the dashes that we can basically have on our screen now i run a 5-inch hdmi output screen and i've got that mounted like a race dash um so that it can display these different dashboards and as you can see uh this is a dash that's um like clusters like a bosch and i've modified it so that it doesn't have a gear or as such a bigger gear i have actually modified it lately and i have put a little gear on the left hand side now um but i didn't have one before so that's why it was called no gearbox stash so as you can see we've got all these different dashboards this one by whatever the creator of civ um i've got the bosch ddu4 the cosworth style dash um gaugeland dash motec style dash and it tells you the offer is we've got the geneta style again more motec style dashboards again i've converted this one to have no gear on it um so that i can just simply see what it looks like so i can do now is i can put it in a windowed mode and i can actually reduce this down and i can show you what the dashboard would actually look like as i see it on the fifth inch screen now you can do this and minimize this down to size as well and you could literally overlay this in your game if you're running in windowed mode and have it at the bottom like uh where you can see it and you can do this with many different dashboards so it's not just this one you can do it with them all but like just for demonstration as you can see the engine's off from because the game's not running once that game's running obviously you'd have the rpm bar uh the rpm displayed in like a a numerical format and so on so you know if you want to run it in windowed mode you can but it's much better to have it um either on your like classed as your fourth monitor for me because i'm wearing triples or a secondary monitor so as you can see we can also display like system info so for instance like uh cpu temperature cpu load graphics card temperature the speed of the fan on the gpu uh the frame rates and stuff so you can have that if you want to just run simu in a game where um you're just wanting to get the data from say like msi afterburner so you can just see what you know what stability you've got so it's another great function i sometimes flick that onto um system info when i'm just running on the game where it's not like a sim racing game so i can see that information um again we've got the porsche 911 gt3r style dash rss by david williams uh stack dash what i've made um another stack dashboard that i've modified and put a gear indicator on we've got timings as you can see there's so many different dashboards you can find a lot of these on race department um i've got the sauber dashboard aston martin we've got the audi tt clocks the list just goes on and on and on and as you can see this is one that i've made which is just a trap map and like a car radar or is known in a cell like helicorsa um and you can just basically you know this is one that i made years ago that i was just testing and messing about with making sort of like a radar saw like battleship style and we've got a concept dash control center again corvette style dashboard i actually made just a defibrose cage um because you can just simply download an image from the google uh or just in a web browser and you can save it and what you can do then is you can actually put like gauge gauges pins on and needles and things like that so that you can actually get it to sweep you've just got to edit the needle so it's not seen so you have to sort of do it in like a photo editing nap so you get rid of the like the red needle and make it black um obviously we've got the ferrari 458 ferrari 488 gt ferrari f40 clocks ford focus for gt formula one again this is another dashboard that i've made and you just name them you can just simply model them and copy them i made one here for like a trap map the speed uh a gear indicator and i've just put a stack logo on to make it a bit like a stack dash uh we've got generics 90s in his car dash again another janetta we've got a big helicopter one uh an innovate style boost gauge that i use and then it's got the pedals on track map and so on so yeah the the least endless what you can do within dash studio you can do so many different things with it as you can see as i scroll down we've got leaderboards by frederick um there's just so many just it's endless uh the amount of dashboards that you can find online and like i said race department was a big one there's people who put in all the data on there all the time and we've got like a renault dash so no matter what your race or what what particular things you like to do even if you do like for instance euro truck simulator i've got a scania dash for that you've got the scania r500 you know the mercedes one volvo fh16 there's so many different dashboards that you can find and you just simply download them and you just literally drag them and drop them into your studio folder and that's it it will be displayed in here and then all you do is simply click on this whether you want it in windowed mode like so and then it comes up as uh you know like like i showed you before just comes up like this and obviously there's no data on it so it's not going to be lit up um so you can run it like that or if you want to like run it on a secondary monitor a third motor specific monitor or a usb d480 screen the vo car again you just click on this and set it to where you want to see so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to go back up to the top and i'm going to show you my dashboard and what you do is with this dash here you can click on more and you can edit the dashboard now as you can see this is the editing part of dash studio and all you want to do here is click on this so it makes it to full screen as the window that you're seeing and you can see the added things that i've added in like i've put some text in for gpu and then obviously if we click on this it tells us here on the right hand side what it is so if we click here where it's green this means we've imported some data so if i click on this you can see we're using afterburner as a plugin and we're showing the gpu temperature in degrees now the result format shows you how it's seen and then at the minute it's 31c so you can see that information right there so again the same for this the gpu is what i've written above so that when it's displaying the data i will then see that the gpu is at 31 degrees again cpu so it's the cpu temperature and if i just click on this one again come down to the text tab and this is where you'd click on this uh to get this data from and you'd simply click on this and then you click on insert a property so then what you do is go into the afterburner plugin and as you can see we'd look for cpu temperature which will probably right down at the bottom of afterburner and it's easier just to filter it like so and as you can see we get the temperatures for each car or if we just want simply the cpu temperature we just select that so obviously i'm not going to change this now because we've already got it selected and as you can see it's after burner plug-in cpu underscore temperature underscore degrees you could write this data in as well you don't have to pick the value but it's easier and as you can see the temperature's changing all the time on the cpu and it's showing you the real result of it coming out so that's what it's actually showing now my five inch screen so again we've done the same with the fps so it displays the frame rates while i'm in the game so i just can just quickly glance down i do show the data as well up on the screen but sometimes if you're looking at a gear change you might just want to look at that information so what what i've done here as well like i've said is i've imported a gear indicator and it's just like this information here gear and then obviously there's no gear showing so it's just showing there's nothing um and then we use i'm using so what i've done is change the font so you just come down here and you go to font and then you can change to the style of the font that you want which i'm like the lcd mono so it looks like the old starter seven segment style gear and if you don't want it to be showing you just simply click on either delete it or you can come up here and hide that actual item so if we were to just go up here to the gear as you can see you just click on this and then that information won't be displayed when you're using in the game and as you can see that says visible not visible or you could just simply take it there it's up to you so that's one way of uh editing a dashboard if you're wanting to see more information that's inside it so just going back to the main screen now if we look at this led set we just click on this as you can see it says open integrated led settings so we've got it visible we've got a black background color this is the height and the width of where the leds are set it's minus seven from the top and once you adjust this up and down as you can see it just brings leds up brings them down or up down on the number puts them up on the screen and then this is just basically your orientation and of where you want the actual leds to be set so as you can see i've got 14 leds with an eight number eight led spacing you can have them vertical but obviously they're just gonna go off the screen now because of how they've been set the set the blink delay um and basically this is just uh some leds that scroll up with rpm so i've got them at the top of my five-inch screen so you could easily add them into it as well um and again it's just another great feature of um symbol because literally the sky's your limit whatever you want to put on this display now you can you can simply just put any information you like if you want a basic dash if you want to modify one that's already been done if you want to create your own you can so what i'll do now is i will show you how to create a blank dash and start start from afresh and just put some basic information in so you want to come back to the main dash studio dashboard and in the top right here you can click new dashboard and we'll just call this test because obviously we're just going to make a simple dashboard and then we come into this window here so as you can see on the left hand side you've got all the different functions like an image a text rectangle a linear gauge and so on so we're just going to add text and i'm going to put that in the center okay so as you can see here we've just moved it like this and you can see the numbers changing on the right so if you just want to set it in increments we can do that or we can use uh arrow keys up and down left and right and so on so if you want to change the size of it as well so obviously if you want to make it a lot bigger rather than holding down the numbers it's probably easier just to press sort of 500 and then 500 in height and then we can just drag it into place now i'm just going to half that because i want to show you how to put miles per hour on or something as well so i'm just going to put the display there so at the moment we've got text written in there and that's because we haven't put any information in so the background's transparent we're just going to come down until we see where it says text so what we do here is we click on computer value like i showed you earlier click on this and then we're going to filter it down to gear so that it finds easier and you basically want the game data gear tab to show in game gears and then just click ok what we're going to do then is we're going to display the text is showing as a normal it's a in a horizontal alignment to the left so we want to click on center and then vertical alignment we want it on center now obviously this uh gear indicator is has got a big box but it's going to be a small display inside so we need to change the font size now and make that bigger so we can literally just hold this up until we get it to a decent size it's or we can just simply put in a number of like 100 and what i'm going to do then instead of having text so i can see what a neutral would look like is i'm going to say as as an n so we can see that now that's how we'd see neutral and we can see that we've still got a massive amount of headroom to play with so we can make it sort of 300 and then we could just make it a little bit smaller say 280 and then literally make this box a little bit bigger so we just come back up and we change the height and we just change that to sort of 260 maybe maybe 280 so we've just got a little bit of room okay and then once we've done that we can if you like that style of font that's fine but obviously i'm just going to show you how you can change it you can make it italic you can make it bold you can make it extra bold if you like so we're just going to go with say an extra ball and we're going to go back to a we're just going to look at a random one now so let's just pick that again it's not really a gear indicator uh sort of logo so we'll just go back to the for the lcd mono because like i said i quite like the look of that as a as a gear indicator it makes it look like that traditional style now obviously that's in white if we wanted to change the color we just come down here to text color and then we can pick whichever color we want so let's just go with red and that's our gear indicator done for in the game so every time you launch the game now and uh sim will be seen uh seeing the data from the game i.e a set oh eye racing whatever game you may be on that gear indicator will just cycle through the gears we're showing it as an end so that when we have this screen on our dash that's what you will see on the uh dash when it's in like a non-idle in an idle mode on uh non-game mode sort of like your desktop so for instance now if we want to do speed as well we can just drag another text box in and we can again we can change the size of it so we're just going to change this to sort of like 400 and then height maybe 200 and then i'm just going to literally drag this into position just something like so and again we're going to go through the sewing procedure we're going to come down to text we're going to go to fx computer value insert property we're going to go to speed and then we can see all the different ones so obviously we've got the speed of the uh the afterburner and the system info so we're looking for game data speed and as you can see the data car plug-in game data speed miles per hour so we want this one here and click ok again i'm just going to change this text to a zero because the reason why i'm doing that is so i can see when i align it to the right how much we've got room for for a three digit character because obviously we'll be going over 100 mile an hour so you're going to need three digits um if you don't have enough room it won't display that information so again horizontal alignment this time i'm going to go to the right and i'm going to go to the center and i'm going to come back down to the font size and i'm going to change that to 200 and we can go up a little bit more 240 i'm just going to move this into position and just stretch this box out a little bit make it a little bit bigger again just dragging it into a position it doesn't really matter about the box been lined up i'm particularly looking at whether the numbers are lined up with uh the gear indicator so as you can see now we've got this i'm just going to actually leave this in this style now because when the uh speeds going up we'd know that this is gear and speed but if you wanted to put something in like lap time once you put that lap time in underneath you'd actually could drag another box in and just label that as a lap time or l stroke time or something like that and then you know what that particular uh display is showing because once you start adding to it and add into it and add into it like i've done on mine you can get confused so obviously i've got lap estimate last lap fuel position what lap i'm on the actual time that is now um i've got that displayed in the bottom right i've got driver in front driver behind so when i'm online i can see what friends in front and what friends behind me so i know where they are um again just so many features you can do inside this so all you've literally got to do is just play with all these little things here and just keep dragging them over adding them like a linear gauge dial gauge and so on you can just keep dragging the main insert and the properties what you want to see and you can really have fun and play with it so at the moment we've got that as a zero so we know that we can definitely have enough room there to get three characters in even if was to go up to 200 mile an hour in some vehicle we know that we'd have enough room inside this and that's the main thing so what i've done is i've actually launched a acetyl corsa and what i'm going to do is i'm going to show this in windowed mode i'm going to drag it over the existing dashboard and show you how it works so once you've completed your dashboard you want to just click click on file and click save and then that data will be saved once back in the main screen of dash studio obviously it's an alphabetical order so you want to scroll right down to the bottom and as we can see here we'll have test and we're just going to click on windowed mode and as you can see here i'm dragging the little dashboard in that we made in a windowed style format even though it's black you can see that it is a rectangle um and as i apply a gear now into first into second third it'll display the gear so if you simply wanted to just make a gear indicator as an overlay for in-game and that look pretty cool this is an easy way to do it um you just literally do what i've shown you in in the earlier stages of this video just follow everything i've said and it'll work exactly the same for you you could also just have it for uh on your five inch screen or a seven inch screen again all the different types of monitors and stuff that you can use you can do exactly the same in them it just depends how you uh want to output it within simult this is in windowed mode you'd have to display on a specific monitor or secondary monitor etc so as you can see we've just applied first gear and and we can see that the speed is slightly off because of how symbols been displaying it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you now how you can change that so here we are back inside simub what you want to do is come over to your dash studio we've got the dashboard that we're showing it'll be at the top and as you can see which ones click on more edit dashboard and then we just want to go to the speed one click on this item come down and then where the output is for it where it lights up green for the property click on this that will bring you back into this menu here so then as you can see the result format we just want to see as a zero and then click ok click on file click on save we want to just then close this down and then launch this again in windowed mode it's going to drag that dashboard back into place again so it's where it was roughly and as you can see now when we drive the speed is in the normal uh mile per hour reading and we're just going to third gear just have a little drift around this corner so as you can see we've just got a simple gear indicator a mile per hour reading um all the gears work as they should and it's just an easy way of making a dashboard plus you can edit others it's simple to download all the dashboards from like race department just gonna store the car there uh just so you might be able to wear me better but if you do want any of the dashboards i have then just drop a comment below and i can put them in a folder again and zip them up you can have all my dashboards and you just simply drop them in to your dash studio folder within you where you've installed it so for instance like c drive program files i think it's program files x86 actually simub and then dash studio and then all your folders there just simply drag them folders in drop them in there and then the dashboards are already installed go back into your studio within simub and and straight away you've got all the uh dashboards displaying so i hope this video helped you understand a little bit about dash studio how you can edit the dashboards now you can make your own um i'm going to be doing more videos in depth about studio this was just simply a basic understanding and rundown of how you can make a basic dash and edit it so if you did like this video then please hit that like button guys please subscribe to my channel if you already haven't and hit that bell notification for all the content that i upload on a daily basis and i will see you in the next one [Music]

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Length: 23min 57sec (1437 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 23 2021