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PRNDL

This mode simulates an automatic gear shift lever, colloquially known as a "PRNDL" shifter. It includes optional effects for locking the shifter in park or neutral, a configurable number of slots, and park gear simulation for ATS/ETS2.

PRNDL

Features

Simply move the joystick forward and back to select the desired gear position.

  • If a shift lock device is selected in the Input/output settings tab, the chosen button must be depressed in order to shift out of park. This simulates the shift lock trigger found on all modern automatic vehicles to prevent accidentally shifting from park to reverse.
    • Similarly, if the Enable shift lock between Neutral and Reverse option is enabled, the button must be depressed to shift from neutral to reverse.
  • ATS/ETS2 does not have a "park" gear. When ATS/ETS2 telemetry is enabled, "park" is simulated by enabling or disabling the parking brake and setting the gear to neutral. To enable this behavior, ensure the option is enabled in the Other settings tab.
    • Alternatively, the park gear can be disabled in the Other settings tab.

Game configuration

The PRNDL mode sends vJoy button presses when gears are engaged. Bind the in-game gear slots as you would with a hardware automatic shifter, by walking through the gears slot-by-slot in the game's control settings. The input device will show up as the vJoy device you selected in the PRNDL mode's input/output settings.

ATS/ETS2 settings

Set these values in the "Controls" menu:

  • In the Input Types list, add the vJoy Device ATS vJoy
  • Set Transmission to any automatic mode

Set these values in the "Keys and buttons" menu. It's easiest to bind the buttons by starting with the stick in adjacent slot, starting the button bind detection, and then moving the stick into the target slot:

  • Set Parking Brake to vJoy button 11
    • Disable the Simulate Park slot in ATS/ETS2 using telemetry setting in the "Other settings" tab in order to bind button 11, otherwise it will be overwritten by button 13
  • Set Shift To Drive to vJoy button 14
  • Set Shift To Reverse to vJoy button 12
  • Set Shift To Neutral to vJoy button 13

Truck sim parking brake binding

Truck sim transmission bindings

How to manually set bindings in controls.sii

If you're comfortable editing the controls.sii file for you profile, you can also set the bindings by editing these entries, substituting joy4 for your vJoy device number:

config_lines[391]: "mix parkingbrake `keyboard.space?0 | joy4.b12?0 | semantical.parkingbrake?0`"
config_lines[483]: "mix gear0 `unbound?0 | joy4.b14?0 | semantical.gear0?0`"
config_lines[484]: "mix geardrive `modifier(cstm_mod_1?0 & (! cstm_mod_2?0) & (! cstm_mod_3?0) & (! cstm_mod_4?0) & (! cstm_mod_5?0) & (! cstm_mod_6?0), keyboard.d?0) || joy4.b15?0 | semantical.geardrive?0`"
config_lines[485]: "mix gearreverse `unbound?0 | joy4.b13?0 | semantical.gearreverse?0`"

The PRNDL mode will also output your pedals' values on vJoy virtual axes, to preserve compatibility with the heavy truck and H-shifter modes.

Settings descriptions

  • Enable park slot: This option enables the park slot. ATS/ETS2 does not have a park gear, so if you're not using telemetry, you may want to disable this option.
  • Enable Low slot: Similar to the above, if your game of choice does not have a low gear, this option should be disabled.
  • Simulate Park slot in ATS/ETS2 using parking brake telemetry: ATS/ETS2 does not implement a park gear in the game. When this option is enabled and ATS/ETS2 telemetry is active, the PRNDL mode will simulate a park gear by enabling the parking brake and setting the gear to neutral. Disable this option if this behavior is not desired.
  • Enable shift lock between Neutral and Reverse: When this option is enabled and a shift lock device and button are configured, the shift lock button must be pressed in order to shift from neutral to reverse. (This is in addition to the shift lock button's default behavior of preventing shifting from park to reverse.)
  • Use brake pedal as additional shift lock: When this option is enabled, the brake pedal must be pressed in order to shift from park or neutral to reverse.