Vibration Cue

Overview

The Vibration Cue extracts high-frequency content from the vehicle’s telemetry data and adds it as small, rapid platform movements. This simulates road texture, engine vibration, aerodynamic buffeting, and other fine-detail sensations that the Primary Cue’s smoothing would otherwise filter out.

The cue processes accelerations and angular velocities through a high-pass filter to isolate only the fast-changing components, then applies them as subtle motion on top of the existing platform output.

Controls

Each of the six motion axes has independent settings:

• Enable/Disable: Toggle checkbox to activate vibration output on a specific axis
• Intensity: Controls the strength of vibration on that axis
  • Higher values produce more noticeable vibration
  • Lower values produce subtler effects
  • The vibration output is automatically soft-limited to prevent excessive movement, so higher intensity values saturate gracefully rather than causing harsh jolts

How It Works

The Vibration Cue responds differently depending on the vehicle type:

• Driving games: Uses vehicle accelerations and gravity data to capture road surface detail, curb strikes, and mechanical vibrations
• Flight games: Uses accelerations and angular velocities to capture turbulence, engine vibration, and aerodynamic buffeting
• Rollercoaster & spaceship games: Uses accelerations and angular velocities similar to flight mode

The Vibration Cue is not active in manual control mode.

Tuning Tips

• Start with low intensity values (around 10–20) and increase gradually — a little vibration goes a long way
• Heave and Surge are the most commonly used vibration axes for driving games — they capture road surface detail effectively
• For flight sims, enable Pitch and Roll vibration to feel turbulence and buffeting
• If the vibration feels harsh or buzzy, reduce intensity rather than disabling the axis entirely
• The Vibration Cue works best alongside the Primary Cue — the Primary Cue handles large sustained forces while the Vibration Cue adds fine detail on top
• Disable axes that add unwanted noise without contributing to immersion — for example, Yaw vibration may feel unnatural in some driving games