Custom Controller Mapper - Control Train Sim World with Any Joystick or Analog Controller – No RailDriver Required

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Looking for a way to drive Train Sim World using your own joystick, throttle, or custom controller setup? This open-source mod and program uses UE4SS to inject input directly into the game, giving you complete control over the train and completely bypassing the raildriver interface.

✅ Customizable profiles per locomotive
✅ Cross-platform support (Windows/Linux)
✅ Works with most analog/game controllers

This software requires some configuration and set-up most of which can be found on Github
https://github.com/LiamMartens/tsw-controller-app
https://github.com/LiamMartens/tsw-controller-app/blob/main/beta.package/README.md

Explanations on the profile configurations can also be found in the repository
https://github.com/LiamMartens/tsw-controller-app/blob/main/beta.package/PROFILE_EXPLAINER.md

Previous threads where I answer questions / give suggestions
https://www.reddit.com/r/trainsimworld/comments/1jqt103/i_created_a_modsoftware_to_directly_control_in/
https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/i-created-a-mod-software-to-directly-control-in-game-trains-using-a-joystick-no-raildriver.90609/#post-999423

Requirements

UE4SS Code Library
UE4SS Code Library
Other for Train Sim World · by Luex · 18 days ago

You can also install UE4SS directly from the UE4SS GitHub repository
!! USE THE LATEST EXPERIMENTAL VERSION
https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS/releases

Installation Instructions

See Github instructions (https://github.com/LiamMartens/tsw-controller-app)
In short you will need to

  1. Calibrate and set-up your joystick / gamecontroller
  2. Disable the game controller for Train Sim World by enabling steam input and completely clearing the mappings (otherwise you get in game conflicts)
  3. Install UE4SS and add the UE4SS mod
  4. Configure your profiles (or use some of the pre-defined profiles to start)
  5. Run the program

Tags: gamepad joystick raildriver

Files

beta.package.zip 55 MB · Added 7 days ago · Downloaded 33×

Comments

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train_bird 3 days ago

Thanks for this very useful piece of software, especially for the linux support! Quite simple to set up and just works "out of the box" with my Arduino powered DIY controller.
I've got two little suggestions for improvements:

  • German vehicles with combined power and brake have a kind of "dead zone" around the neutral notch where the lever jumps back to 0 with every value that you send through direct control. At the moment I work around that by adding steps for the actual lever positions of minimum power and brake and a bunch of "null" steps up to maximum power and brake. If we could combine steps with sections of linear interpolation between two steps, we could replicate the actual behaviour of the lever (3 notches around the center and then linear until maximum power/brake).
  • As far as I know, the names of direct controls and sync controls are different. If the direct control names were also printed to the terminal when moving a lever, it would be more easy to configure new vehicles.

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About this mod

Avatar of L_ L_
Created
7 days ago
Updated
7 days ago
Game
Train Sim World
Type of content
Utility
Train Sim World compatibility
Train Sim World 5