Travel Limits Cue

Overview

The Travel Limits Cue restricts how far each motion axis can move from its center position. It acts as the final safety layer in the motion processing chain, ensuring the platform never exceeds safe mechanical boundaries. It also applies the global gain setting and handles limiting for wind and belt tensioner outputs.

Travel Limits work in conjunction with the limits defined in your Sim Config (Hardware Profile). The cue takes the more restrictive of the two when both are set, ensuring the tightest applicable limit is always enforced.

Controls

Each of the six motion axes has independent settings:

• Enable/Disable: Toggle checkbox to activate custom travel limits on a specific axis
  • When disabled, only the Sim Config limits apply
  • When enabled, the more restrictive of the Sim Config limit and the cue limit is used
• Min: Minimum allowed position for that axis (the negative/left/down/backward direction)
• Max: Maximum allowed position for that axis (the positive/right/up/forward direction)
  • For linear axes (Sway, Surge, Heave), values are in distance units
  • For rotational axes (Pitch, Roll, Yaw), values are in degrees

Soft Limits vs. Hard Limits

Travel Limits uses two limiting modes depending on your settings:

• Soft Limits (default for game-driven motion): The platform approaches the limit gradually using a smooth curve. Motion near the edges of travel feels natural and decelerates progressively rather than hitting a hard stop. This prevents jarring impacts when the platform reaches its boundaries.
• Hard Limits (used in manual control mode): The platform is simply clamped at the configured min/max values. Motion stops abruptly at the boundary.

When the Advanced Yaw Cue’s unlimited yaw mode is enabled, the yaw axis uses hard limiting instead of soft limiting to preserve continuous rotation behavior.

Tuning Tips

• In most cases, the Sim Config limits are sufficient — only enable per-axis Travel Limits if you need to restrict specific axes further for a particular profile
• Use Travel Limits to create different motion envelopes for different games or vehicles without changing your Sim Config
• If motion feels “squished” near the ends of travel, your limits may be too tight — try increasing them or relying on the Sim Config limits alone
• Soft limiting provides the best user experience for most scenarios — it prevents mechanical stress and feels more natural
• The global gain slider (in Settings) scales all motion before Travel Limits are applied — reducing global gain effectively shrinks the motion envelope without changing your limit values
• Wind and belt tensioner outputs are always hard-limited to their configured ranges