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Trucky Dashboard Designer, Viewer and Mobile App

This feature is currently available on the Beta branch and is accessible only for Angel Patrons as Exclusive Preview

 

What is Trucky Dashboard?

Trucky Dashboard is a new feature, written entirely from scratch, a sort of “app within an app” that allows you to design interactive and incredibly dynamic dashboards and use them on your computer, on another computer, and of course on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, both Android and Apple.

The Designer appears as a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) graphic editor in which you can design components one by one, using dozens and dozens of options available for their highly dynamic configuration.

 

Some components can be linked to Telemetry values to make them react to changes in the game.

 

Components such as Gauge and Progress Bar contain “Telemetry Bindings” for minimum, maximum, and current values; the Label can be static or linked to Telemetry, and can disappear if not valued; Image components can be linked to one or more states, such as ON/OFF.

 

The Dashboard Designer already includes more than 50 high-quality SVG images for the most common icons used in a Dashboard.

 

Together with high-quality backgrounds from existing or custom-designed dashboards, you can create faithful reproductions of real or in-game truck dashboards.

 

The Dashboard Designer is a Freemium feature, components number is limited based on your Trucky Subscription:

  • Free for everyone: 5 components
  • Fan Patrons: 20 components ⭐
  • Angel Patrons: Unlimited components ⭐

Dashboard Designer

How to open the Dashboard Designer

From the Trucky tray icon > right click > Dashboard Designer

 

⭐Components Limits

The Dashboard Designer is a Freemium feature, components number is limited based on your Trucky Subscription:

  • Free for everyone: 5 components
  • Fan Patrons: 20 components ⭐
  • Angel Patrons: Unlimited components ⭐

Dashboard Designer Areas

The Dashboard Designer is a pretty complete but complete window that will permit you to design beautiful and stunning dashboards.

On the left:

  • Components Limits
  • Available Components

In the center the main Canvas

In the upper bar, the dashboard size and the zoom control, the Designer Toolbart with:

  • Manage button: opens the Dashboards Manager where you can find all dashboards, change active dashboard, delete dashboards
  • New : starts a new empty Dashboard
  • Export : export the current dashboard to a json file
  • Import : import a Dashboard json file (must respect your Components Limits)
  • Mobile : shows the Mobile dialog to load quickly or configure the Trucky Dashboard Mobile app

On the right:

  • Components Layers: a list of all components with a search bar
  • When a component is selected, the Component Properties form or the Dashboard Settings when no components are selected

 

Keyboard and Mouse Controls

Keyboard arrow keys can be used to move components in every direction

Hint: if you want a fine grane movement with arrow keys, adjust the Grid Size in Dashboard Settings to a lower value

DELETE button to delete the component

CONTROL+D to duplicate the component

Zoom in and zoom out: Mouse central wheel + movement ahead or backward

 

Component Toolbar

In order, from left to right:

  • Copy style
  • Paste style
  • Duplicate component
  • Move up in the visibility tree
  • Move down in the visibility tree
  • Delete component

How to use the Dashboard on local computer

There are two ways:

  • Using the Dashboard Viewer present directly in the Trucky Client, from the Trucky Tray icon > Dashboard Viewer

  • Using the browser visiting:

http://localhost:25556/viewer

 

 

How to use the Dashboard on your mobile Device

First, prepare your PC and network connection: the computer and the mobile device must be on the same network and must be capable of talking each other.

First, download the app Trucky Dashboard on your mobile device

 

 

 

 

 

 

The QR Code Dialog shows a QR Code that can be shoot directly from the Trucky Dashboard mobile app that will configure automatically the app to connect to the computer with the preferred IP address.

All your IP addresses are shown there in the dropdown list so you can choose the correct IP based on your network settings.

Hint: if you have issues configuring your computer to be able to talk with the mobile app, use the “Add Firewall Exceptions” button to add Firewall rules to your system allowing Trucky to be contacted from the local and external network.

How to use the Dashboard on a remote computer

You can visit the Dashboard Viewer also from a remote computer using simply your browser at the address

http://<IP ADDRESS WHERE TRUCKY IS INSTALLED>:25556/viewer

 

Available Components

  • Image: a simple image component supporting PNG, JPEG, GIF and SVG

  • Image with State: an advanced image component supporting two different images usually tied a telemetry boolean state ON\OFF
    • Can be hidden when the state is OFF (e.g. Cruise Control Status)
    • Can blink

  • Circle: a configurable Circle geometric object (can be used for graphic elements, containers…)
  • Rectangle: a configurable Rectangle geometric object (can be used for graphic elements, containers…)
  • Label: a simple label component supporting Telemetry State from string variables
    • Can be hidden when the Telemetry state is empty (e.g. Cruise Control Speed)

  • Button: a button component supporting Hotkeys combinatio that are sent to the Game
  • Gauge: an advanced gauge components for Speed, RPM, fuel, pressure indicato with a tons of options

  • Progress Bar: an advanced progress bar component with a lot of options
    • Can be configured with “levels” showing different colors at different fill percentages

  • Speed Limit: shows the current Speed Limit according to the game

  • License Plate: shows the current Truck License Plate

  • Clock: shows the current time with some nice options

 

Image Gallery

The Dashboard Designer comes with more than 509 high-quality SVG already in multi-state colors to be used with the Image with State component

Showcase

Below some use cases you can achieve

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