Tweak Tool FFB Werkstatt

Dr. Disconnect FFB Werkstatt
Over the last weeks i created a complete free Werkstatt FFB Tool Beta with slider adjustment and a complete in programm clipping test run on two virtual tracks.
Now you dont have to write .txt files and change it manualiy anymore. The program makes everything for you and activate the file in AMS2 by one single click

It stands on a complete new code in many live testing session and wheelbase readouts (over 480 at this point). Frequency and amplitude analysis of every vibration the game delivers.


The only difficulty is to find out what kind of feeling do you prefer in youre wheel. Everything else is one single click now

The Werkstatt App ads a lot more features for example you can activate a gear shift shock effect. Reiza never implemented that. Its complete new calculated.
The start file is my crispyChicken FFB. It ads a very sharp feeling and tells you if you lose grip (vibration). Now you can ride at the edge of grip and dont overheat youre tyres ore loose the car.
You can bring boring cars to life...
and you can drive constantly at maximum G-Force the tyre could handle.
Automobilsta 2 is a complete new Game for me now

-Grip limit (adjustable entry point)
-grip vibration
-lighter steering on slide on/off
-servo steering
-brake effects
-curb effects
-Gear shift effect !!!! First time in Automibilsta 2
-Road feeling and effects
-and 32 more sliders

send me a message for Beta testing the FFB Werkstatt App 0.96



see you on the track

UPDATE

Dr. Disconnect FFB Werkstatt – Feel Every Gear Change in Automobilista 2
For the first time in AMS2: a real shift kick in your wheel. Plus your entire force feedback tuned with one click, zero code.

Automobilista 2 has one of the best physics engines in sim racing. But your wheel stayed silent on every gear change. And tuning the force feedback meant opening cryptic .txt files, guessing numbers, saving, reloading, and guessing again. Not anymore.

Dr. Disconnect FFB Werkstatt is a program with a clean interface that lets you shape AMS2’s entire steering feel to your liking. No programming skills, Unzip, launch, drive.

⭐ The highlight: Shift kick

Nothing like this has existed in Automobilista 2 before. The game has no shift effect and doesn’t even provide a signal for it. So the Werkstatt calculates the shift kick from scratch: it detects every gear change on its own from engine and wheel speed.

On every upshift and downshift you feel a short, firm kick in the wheel, whether you use paddles or an H-shifter. No false kicks on kerbs, during wheelspin or on the rev limiter. Strength and delay are up to you.

Drive with it once and you’ll never want to go back.

️ Sliders instead of text files: Steering, Grip & Limit, Brakes & Weight, Road, Kerbs & Grass, Shifting. Every slider tells you what happens when you move it left or right, with a short explanation.

Per-car grip signal: The file detects each car’s grip limit on its own. Right at the limit the wheel vibrates, then the steering goes light. You feel it before you slide.

Master gain: One slider for the strength of everything, across all cars.

Built-in test bench: A simulator drives test tracks with a normal and a powerful car and checks stability against real, measured wheelbases. A traffic light shows OK, warning or danger. A clipping display shows where your wheel hits its limit and suggests exactly what to change.

⚡ One-click activate: Your old file is backed up automatically and the new one is live in the game right away. Reload the track and you’re done. You never lose a previous setup.
Switch Force Feedback on the fly. No restart needed anymore. Yes cant believe it

History: The program remembers your recent setups. Double-click to load one again.

German and English, and it finds AMS2 (including the beta) automatically.

A whole new driving experience

The Werkstatt gives AMS2 a second life. Want sharp, direct steering? More feel at the limit? Something closer to RaceRoom, Assetto Corsa, or your favourite sim? Just dial it in. You decide how much road texture comes through, how hard the kerbs kick, how the car loads up under braking, and how hard each gear slams in.

Same game, but it finally feels like yours.

Everything else the Werkstatt does

 

This tool is worth every penny.I didn't like customs files as i always used default+ on my base but after i tried the crispy chicken i had the strange feelin' that the old Reiza 1.5 or was it 1.6 feeling is back,that i once loved so much,but now it's finer.Well Done

 

Sound really interesting. I tried some things with custom ffb files, but I never was satisfied what custom ffbs provied (usally missing resistance dropping when front grip breaks) or when trying to things myself. Is there any way to test this tool already or a scheduele when it might drop?

 

you are now in the Beta testing list

 

I'm interested in taking part in the beta

 

in the app there is a slider for exactly youre problem so many people struggled before with this

 

If you change the value of a setting, do you need to exit and restart the game?

 

As far as I understand, yes. AMS2 doesn't re-read the custom FFB file once it's running. It's been like this forever and is one of the things that can make testing different FFB files tedious (especially since the game only supports one custom file at a time).

 

youre complet right. Its a Reiza thing. AMS2 need a restart if you change the Force Feedback. AMS2 reeds it only once at the start

 

Thanks for the beta access.
Absolutely love that tool. Tuned MP4/7A to my taste and time to do proper 1.5h race with it now.
Really appreciate the effort done on this app. The tooltips are amazing guide, really detailed.

 

Sooo, I have been testing this new app for two days now and I think it's time for a quick review:

The FFB Werkstatt app

• is easy to use, easy to understand and - this is of course subjective - I personally like the UI design
• offers short as well as detailed explanations for each and every slider you can adjust - impressive!
• makes developing and managing FFB files over the course of different iterations, variants, etc. easy thanks to save and load features, a "commit to memory" feature that comes in handy if you want to switch between different setups within the same session, etc.
• comes with a very decent selection of presets that you can easily load and adjust to suit your own needs
• can potentially detect issues with the FFB settings before you're even in the game thanks to a built-in check feature that simulates driving in various conditions; this does take a bit of time, though (maybe 2-3 minutes on my machine)
• is stable as far as I can tell - so far I've had no freezes, crashes or other issues while using it.

Truth be told I was usually too lazy to manually fiddle with the settings inside custom FFB files in the past. It can be tedious, especially if you have to figure out what some of the settings actually do or how they interact with one another. This is why I like the FFB Werkstatt so much - it streamlines the process A LOT and actually makes it... fun?! Yeah, I think you could say that. I would definitely recommend this tool just for this alone.


However... there is also the Crispy Chicken FFB that it comes bundled with, and after putting various iterations and settings through their paces these past two days I can safely say this is the best FFB I've experienced in AMS2, personally speaking. Making adjustments is easy enough, and the different settings and their explanations help A LOT in figuring out which changes you actually want to make.

One really cool addition is an FFB effect on gear change. To be honest I was afraid this would feel somehow artificial and tacked on, but it doesn't. The strength can be adjusted and it can of course be toggled on or off completely, but I found myself even increasing the strength of the effect a little bit. It's such a seemingly small thing that does so much for the immersion, IMHO.

Last but not least I noticed right away that my driving has become MUCH more consistent with the Crispy Chicken FFB (and a few personal adjustments). Following Danielkart's suggestions for input axis settings inside of AMS2 combined with this FFB model has made driving mistakes much more rare for me, in large part because - once optimized for my own hardware (G25!) - I can feel the limits of the tires much more clearly.

Now don't get me wrong - neither Reiza's default and default+ presets nor Danielkart's Topspeed files are bad. Not at all! I'd even argue that they are superb for what they offer, even and especially when compared to other sims that I have played.

But even so I feel like being able to tailor this specific FFB even more closely to my own taste and requirements has made the difference between "this is fun" and "this is fun AND I can now race consistently"!

P.S.: No, this isn't a paid review... Oh god how I wish it was! I just happen to like the app and FFB very much and thus can and want to recommend it (once it becomes publicly available, that is).

 

Hats off, this tool really is a gamecharger for Custom FFB. The base setups are already really good. And it's really easy to understand what each slider does and it's even more surprising how good you can feel each of these changes in the ffb ingame.
I just wanted to test it and ended spending like over an hour adjusting it to my personal likings.

I will surely spend more time refining my created ffb profile, not quite happy with minor things like how smooth the Sebring road surface feels atm that can be fine tuned with all the road sliders.

And finally a custom ffb file really allows that proper frontend griploss feeling like a real car, the slider on that works really well.

Guess I will make the switch to custom FFB with this after playing with Standard profiles for a long time again now

One minor bug I found: When you switch all vibrations off (I don't like the strange Fanatec virbrations since I got bassshakers on my rig) it shows as a hint that your vibration settings are very low.

 

A Big Thank you for all of youre testing and the warm words over FFB Werkstatt Beta 9.8

Im back from a couple of rounds at the green hell nürburgring.
its legal but it feels illegal, because a can feel the end of grip and the others dont. Im constantly at the egde, at the maximum geforce the tyre can handle.

the new calculations in 9.8 are much more precise because of more than 480 wheelbase read outs at this time

 

@JDean Just one general question: The tool is just creating the FFB file with all the logic it needs. Once the file is created and I don't want to actively change the settings I don't need to run the program itself, right?

 

youre settings stays active in the game

 

News Update.
Today wie found some more potential in Reizas newest tyre model. Now we can produce more activ feeling in the "new cars". The cars feel so much more alive.. but needs a lot of testing from now

Problem: the second SSD Drive is full of collecting drive data. little shopping pause..

 

I’m really looking forward to seeing how this expansion turns out in the end

 

Logi G Pro Trueforce user. Would love to give this app a shot. Let me know if you need anymore testerz

 

Werkstatt Beta 9.9 is ready with new calculations of the tyre model. New telemetry analysis.
CrispyChicken FFB Base setup is now much more detailed in the curves and on the brake

everything is ready direct from the start. Set active and go.
And if you want to tweak there is much explanation under every slider
(thanks to my colleague from Volkswagen devolopment)

Happy Trailbreaking

 

Sounds interesting