What are the idle animations and how do I change them?

Idle animations run when SimHub is open but you are not in a session, so on the desktop or in menus. Each device has its own Idle Mode or Idle RPMs tab.

The animations are: DNR Wave, Breathe, Sweep, Bounce, Comet, Fill and Drain, Centre Out, Theatre Chase, Alternate, Twinkle, Wipe, Solid and Colour Fade.

Alongside the animation you can set:

• Idle Animation Total Time, which sets the speed
• Run It Backwards, which reverses the direction
• Brightness for idle separately from racing
• A Colour Theme, or Custom with Colour 1 and Colour 2

There is a live PREVIEW so you can see it before committing.

The animation, its colours, its direction and its size belong to the device selected at the top of the page, so each device can idle differently. Only Idle Animation Total Time, the duration, is universal across all DNR devices, so they animate in step rather than drifting apart.

If you switch idle off for a device and it keeps animating, that device is running a profile with its own animation baked in, which is common on branded wheel profiles. The plugin greys out the controls a profile does not read.

Steering wheel and button box idle themes work slightly differently: they have an ANIMATION choice of Static or Breathing, plus a Dim Effect so the rig is not glaring at you from the desktop. Flag boxes have their own Idle Screen options instead.