X-Sim Wish List

Please take a moment to offer up your wish list for X-Sim. Anything goes.

One item that I've seen somewhat frequently is NetKar game support.

Aside from game plugins, are there any other devices or features that you would like to see?

Only wishes concerning the UI:

- More simple to use / more easy to understand for beginners.

- Optimized for smaller LCD. Most of us have small profiler screens with only 800*600 or 1024* 768 (cheap touchscreens) Make x-sim fitting to that resolutions and perhaps the operation fields and buttons bigger for touch use.

I wish me a Full Tudorial from beginning to end with Pictures.
How to start, how to configuere etc.
For now you have to look at this side, then on this Thread then change to another website all informations are not central.

Good idea! Also a extra big button for turning on/off different axis, for people with extra hardware like buttkickers and blower fans.

Gauge dashboard system port to smartphones or tablets (you can get very cheap 7 android tablet around 100$ that is half the price of USB monitors).

I wish more member contributions ;D

We have currently over 3000 members, and just a handfull of people are helping others and/or contributing so far. Quite unpleasant ratio imho.

Why not writing a tutorial by yourselves, instead of requesting it from others over and over.
It think there are enough people available to help if someone is willing to start.

Would be nice if people would integrate their simulator/hardware/peripheral projects as a tutorial in the X-Sim Wiki as well.

Don't forget that X-Sim is a non-commercial hobbyist project, and reliant on member contributions.

Regards

:clap: yup agree

Suggestions for improvment are always good. Communities don't stand the test of time without an understanding of their users. That being said, if you are making a suggestion that you have the ability to implement, then implement it!

I think this is the big misunderstanding. There seems to be a belief that many users have the knowledge to contribute this documentation. I do not believe that is true. I think only a small number of users understand X-Sim welll enough to contribute documentation. The remainder are begging for documentation.

I spend as much time on this as I can. I created the manual for the new sender. I created an additional advanced manual for the PlugFree portion of the new sender. These are not released yet because PlugFree is not released yet.

Work is in progress on a Beginners Guide to X-Sim but this is a VERY lengthy topic and takes alot of time.

The only thing remaining is a guide to creating motion profiles and I do not think this would be an easy manual to understand. Instead I am building a wizard to help new users create motion profiles. I think that this will be more effective than a document because they can learn by example and by feel rather than by words alone.

Once these tasks are done, what other work remains for the community to do? Maybe we should make a list?

With regard to my motive, it's simple, I have both personal and professional reasons for wanting X-Sim to be successful.

I am a rookie in most parts of making a sim, so my contributions may be limited now. One thing is for shure: I will make a detailed turtorial of all I do as soon as I feel som force feedback in my chair! I believe all request of help developing any part of x-sim and simulators should be posted or have a visible link on main page, because if you have a break from the forum some veeks, you miss a lot! I guess the wish list is about both forum and software?

Regard Fred

I originally opened this topic so that I could get a better understanding of end users so that I could do a better job on another task that I am completing for SirNoName and the community but I think I offended some folks with this topic.

Hello,

At first, I wish a great year to all community members and their families.
Until I first found this forum back in late 2008 I had never thought that
motion sims existed ( i mean home made ones). In late 2009 I decided I wanted one and having no special skills nor any experience what so ever, managed to build mine wihin 50 days.
I managed this by taking advantage of the ready solutions provided by Bernard and the creative ideas offered by many good fellows in this forum. So I think that no one should be offended as this in my opinion is one gifted community.

Anyways, If there is something to wish for that would be
a finished plug free project.

Not at all, I just expressed my wish ;D

In the early days with X-Sim1, X-Sim website and the app hace been German only. I went ahead and translated all the stuff into english, and helped to build up an english community.
I had lots of trouble to understand the X-Sim software too, which gave me a hard time with the translation. And I hadnt soldered anything before as well.
But I stuck myself into it, and learned piece by piece, asking questions where I couldnt get further by myself.
Unfortunatly some members think that building their own simulators is like unpacking and connecting a PS3. It is not. It requires some effort and commitment.

Sorry for highjacking your thread, but this wish of mine was really the first thing that came to my mind when reading the topic title.

Its ok if this thread goes on topic from here on again.

Regards

+1 from me for that.

I'd like to use my netbuk for developing but the 1024x600 native resolution isn't enought for the (not resizable) user-interface of the profile²

Several manufacturers offer a 22 touchscreen for under $300. Here is one example: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=2775

My wish is to change the default search to display topics instead of individual posts.

I know the Advanced Search solves this, but I think a lot of users don't realize this, hence a lot of I tried to search but couldn't find anything posts.

Go open-source maybe? :yes:

Another real one for the wishlist:
Seperate installers for sender and profiler

Full Fanatec wheel plugin support.

The only thing I was able to show on my display is rpm 'bars' ... not very usefull




Thx!

Bleco

If it possible to get a pluggin for SLI-PRO.

It is not easy for example in iracing to make use X-SIM and SLI-PRO. IWrap don`t support SLI-PRO, IWrap with iSpeed don`t work by me and so I must take the proxy from EK.

I realize this is just a wish list, but in case you aren't already aware, this issue has been debated here dozens of times. People have practically begged, yet there is no support for this from X-Sim or from EK.

iWrap does work. If you need help figuring out why it isn't working on your system, you can make a post in the iWrap Sourceforge forum and I'm sure someone will help you. If that doesn't work, one of the many hundreds of iRacers who are using it may be able to help you.