TrackThirtyTwo | Wheel Buttons LED Profiles

Wheel Buttons LED profile

Your wheel's buttons, lit with the race

Every button can show something the car is doing: the headlights, DRS, the pit limiter, ABS stepping in, the fuel running low. The dials show the setting you are on, the whole wheel waves the flags and lights the side a rival is on, and it wears any of 34 themes, in the menus and on track. All of it is set on a drawing of your own wheel in the plugin.

The plugin's drawing of a Conspit 300 GT lit in the TrackThirtyTwo theme: orange buttons at the top, red in the middle, blue at the bottom, blue rings round the three dials with an orange selected light, and the rev lights full.

Button Effects: 29Button EffectsFrom the headlights to Fast Repair
Rotary Effects: 10Rotary EffectsTC, ABS, TC Cut, Engine Map and more
Colour themes: 34Colour themesPlus Custom, button by button
Idle animations: 16Idle animationsOn every wheel, two more with a matrix screen

Wheel Buttons, with Pit Crew.

Pit Crew and above light your wheel's buttons, dials and rev lights with every theme, effect and animation on this page, Dark Mode included.

See Pit Crew Get the plugin

Why Wheel Buttons wins

Set up on a drawing of your wheel

The plugin draws your actual wheel, so you click the real button on its picture to give it an effect, a colour or a behaviour instead of counting LED numbers, and its profile arrives built for that wheel's exact layout of buttons, dials and rev lights.

See it live

One wheel. Every light on it.

The plugin's own drawing of a Conspit 300 GT, every light where the plugin puts it. Each chapter is one thing the wheel's profile does: pick its options and the wheel shows them at once.

Colour themes

One theme, every wheel

TrackThirtyTwo and the newer themes are a rule rather than a painting: the plugin sorts your wheel's lights into rows from the top down and cuts them into three groups as near equal as the rows allow, never splitting a row, so one theme fits every wheel and box. Racing, Arctic, Sunset, Rainbow, Citrus, Tokyo, Gulf Oil, Heritage and the single colours are painted by hand for each wheel.

Game Theme34 themes

On your wheel

A Game Theme while you drive and an Idle Theme in the menus
Each dial's selected light in a colour the theme picks to stand out from its ring
Custom unlocks a colour for every button, dial and light
The Custom Theme Helper builds a palette from one, two or three colours
Universal Theme puts one theme on every TrackThirtyTwo device at once

Button Effects

Every button can be telemetry

Click a button on the wheel and give it a behaviour. No Effect keeps the theme colour. Press lights it in your Press Colour while you press it and for your Press Effect Duration after you let go. Toggle holds one of two colours to track a state yourself. Effect hands the light to the car: the headlights, DRS, the limiter, ABS stepping in.

Button Effects

29 in four groups

Car systems

11 effects

29 Button Effects, from Headlights and Wipers to ERS Mode and Low Fuel Alarm
Five for iRacing's pit service: Pass Left, Pass Right, Auto Fuel, Windshield Tear Off and Fast Repair
TC Active and ABS Active light while the aid is stepping in, not merely switched on
Value Increase and Value Decrease flash in the colour of the setting you changed

Rotaries

Dials that show the setting you are on

Each dial's ring of lights shows a Rotary Effect: Position Tracking, TC, ABS or TC Cut either static or blinking while the aid works, Engine Map, Brake Balance or ERS Mode. Draw it as a Single LED, Fill to Current Value, or Car Ranges, which paints the whole ring with what the real car's dial does and marks where you have it set.

Rotary Display Style

Rotary Effect, on the right dial

Car Ranges: off in red, dry settings in white, wet in blue, the one you are on in green
Game colours, Theme colours or Custom colours for the ring
The setting a TC or ABS dial is on comes from the sim, iRacing included, with nothing extra installed
Top Position, Dim Effect for a dial at 0, and a Rotary Global Colour

Effect styles

Every effect, your style

The pit limiter, the engine start and a button press each come in styles, chosen for each device. Only the look is yours to choose: the timing stays the same, so every device on the rig still plays in step.

The effect

Pit limiter style

5 styles

Pit limiter: Walking light, Alternating bands, Flash together, Checker or Bounce
Engine start: Spark shower, Fill up, From the centre or Pulse
A press: Flash to black, Flash to white, Hold lit, Hold dim or Ripple
A press in the menus has its own style, set apart from the Game tab

On track

The whole wheel answers the race

Three of the Game tab's effects take over the wheel when the race calls. Marshal Flag Animations wave the flag across every button and dial. Proximity Spotter Animations blink the buttons on the side a car is alongside, faster as it closes in. Redline Flash Animation flashes the whole wheel in step with the rev lights at the limit.

Marshal Flag Animations

Wave one

Proximity Spotter and Redline Flash

Play one

Each has its own switch on the Game tab, and all three are off until you switch them on
Flags blink at the Flags Blink Frequency, 300 ms to start with
A car close alongside blinks every 150 ms, one further off every 300 ms
Redline Flash in its own colour, red to start with

Idle & Menu

Alive while you wait in the menus

With no game running the wheel wears its Idle Theme, and the Idle Animation line under the theme bar can set it moving: a Style, a Speed and what the unlit buttons do. The animation only changes how bright each light is, so the wheel always shows the theme you chose, and its rev lights join in, each in the colour of the nearest button.

How it moves

15 styles, three kinds

Style

Across the wheel

Speed

Unlit buttons

Breathe, Wave, Ripple, Twinkle, Bounce, Orbit, Theatre Chase, Alternate, Wipe and Rain
TrackThirtyTwo Wave, Sweep, Comet, Fill And Drain, Centre Out and Music
Blocks and Worm on a wheel with a matrix screen
Speed Slow, Normal or Fast; unlit buttons Dimmed or Off

Dark Mode

Night stints without the glare

Dark Mode swaps the whole wheel to one colour and its partner for a dark room: the buttons in the Dark Mode colour, the dials and the redline in the second, on every TrackThirtyTwo product at once. Pick Red, Blue, Purple or Orange, or your own two colours, and switch it from a hotkey as the sun goes down.

Dark Mode colour

Dark Mode Native follows the game's own day and night in ACC and Automobilista 2
Hotkeys for the idle animation, the preset, the menu and game themes and brightness
Presets per wheel and per game, loaded as the session starts

An alternative, not a replacement

Every brand.
One experience.

TrackThirtyTwo does not replace the software your hardware maker gives you. It is an alternative to it: one that works with every brand on your rig and treats them all alike.

01
Every maker's hardware
A maker writes software for its own wheel, and it stops at that maker's hardware. TrackThirtyTwo works with all of it, whoever made it.
02
The same on every brand
One set of settings, effects and themes across your rig, so it does not matter which brand you race on.
03
Everything in step
One suite runs every device, dashboard and overlay, so timings and animations never mismatch the way they can when different solutions are mixed.

Works with

The wheels the plugin draws

The plugin ships a drawing for each supported rim, so you click its real buttons. Wheel types are grouped as Round, Formula, GT, Rally and Hub.

Brands

Not sure yours is here?See every supported device

On the wheel

Buttons, each with its own light
Rotaries with a ring of lights
Multi positional switches, with the Control Mapper
Rev lights, run by the RPM profile
Matrix screens, on the wheels that have one

Sims with their own presets

Assetto Corsa
Assetto Corsa Competizione
Assetto Corsa Evo
Automobilista 2
The F1 games
iRacing
Le Mans Ultimate
Rally games
BeamNG.drive
Any other game

Questions

Wheel Buttons, answered

What are the button behaviours on my steering wheel LEDs?

Open Steering Wheels, Button Effects and click a button on the wheel diagram. No Effect keeps the theme colour. Press lights the LED in your Press Colour while the button is pressed, and Press Effect Duration sets how many milliseconds it stays lit after you release, so a quick tap is still visible. Toggle holds one of two colours, Toggle Colour ON and Toggle Colour OFF, to show a state you are tracking yourself. Effect drives the LED from live telemetry, using one of the game effects such as Headlights, DRS or Pit Limiter. Per button colours are only editable on the Custom theme, and they are locked while Universal Theme is on.

Which car system effects can I put on a wheel button?

With a button set to Effect: DRS, lit when it is available or active; KERS and ERS Lap Deploy Limit; ERS Mode, the current energy mode; Push to Pass; Pit Limiter; TC Active and ABS Active, which flash while the aid is actually intervening; Ignition, Engine Start, and Ignition and Engine Start Combined; Low Fuel Alarm; Value Increase and Value Decrease; and TDM Toggle for Dark Mode. TC Active needs the third party Dahl SimHub plugin in iRacing, and ABS Active is not available in iRacing at all because the game does not publish it.

Are there iRacing specific button LED effects?

Yes. iRacing exposes its pit service commands to SimHub, so a wheel button can show Pass Left, Pass Right, Auto Fuel, Windshield Tear Off and Fast Repair. They light from iRacing's own pit service state, so the LED tells you what the game has actually armed rather than what you think you pressed. In other sims they never light, because no other title reports pit service in that form.

What is Car Ranges on a rotary?

Car Ranges is a third Rotary Display Style, alongside Single LED and Fill to Current Value, for a rotary set to TC or ABS. Instead of lighting one position, it paints the whole ring with what the real car's dial does, then marks where you have it set: red is the off position, white the dry settings, blue the wet settings and green the setting you are on. At setting 0 the ring dims right down and the marker turns red. Do not set the dial up as an absolute encoder in SimHub: SimHub then writes that ring's LEDs itself and overwrites what the profile draws.

What colour themes are available for my LEDs?

Every LED device shares the same theme list, so a wheel, a button box and a flag box can all wear the same look. TrackThirtyTwo is the house colours and the default idle theme: orange across the top of the wheel, red across the middle, blue across the bottom. It and the newer themes follow the same top, middle and bottom rule in their own colours, so one theme fits every wheel; Racing, Arctic, Sunset, Rainbow, Citrus, Tokyo, Gulf Oil and Heritage are painted by hand per device. Custom is the one option that unlocks per button, per rotary and per LED colours.

What is Universal Theme and why has it locked my colours?

Universal Theme sets one colour across every compatible TrackThirtyTwo device at once, so your wheel, button box, eyebrows, flag box and telemetry LEDs all match. It has a Menu theme colour and a Game theme colour. Because its whole purpose is to override, any per device or per button colour is locked while it is on. To colour the wheel on its own, turn Universal Theme off and set the wheel's theme to Custom.