Path Recording

[Vegetable Vampire]

Has anyone found a method to make automated trucks work? They keep driving into stuff and they are not even close to the path I recorded. They just make straight beelines from stations to station, which is not really useful when there is even a slight elevation or any obstacle in the way, like a tree or small rock. Maybe the recording could instead follow the exact same path AND speed you had during recording.

[Timi]

All the path recording does is make a series of checkpoints (the little arrows left on the ground), and all the autopilot does is: go from one arrow to another, while holding down gas 100%

Making the route in an open enough area while flooring it yourself usually yields the best results for me.

[Shane]

mine go exactly where i tell them all the time, sometimes when coming to a truck stop they whack into at full speed and have drive round in circles to get back on track but the actual path from A-B is fine, in fact i have one that picks up coal drops it of at multiple stops before going back around without any issues...

when i played multiplayer mode as the non host i had bugs accessing them and such, but in SP mode no problems at all..

this said my friend has a issue (which again i dont) where they hit something and bounce all over the map land upside down and constantly require tracking down and resetting.

so buggy for some, okay for others, etc


note during pathing when your not around they dont actually drive along, they jump from node to node, so if you drive real slow the nodes are closer together and its jumps are shorter, however i prefer them to be driven as fast as i can so there are less/longer jumps for it to track along

[Eldon]

I was going to ask if anyone knows how to remove markers both auto pilot and tractor.

I made a path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my tractor drive off a into the distance, away from the markers.

decided the path was to long and the start was too far from finish.
i made a gocart.
I made a new path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my gocart drive off a into the cliff into the void, and its marker wont go away.

[Aeekto]

Originally posted by Eldon:

I was going to ask if anyone knows how to remove markers both auto pilot and tractor.

I made a path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my tractor drive off a into the distance, away from the markers.

decided the path was to long and the start was too far from finish.
i made a gocart.
I made a new path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my gocart drive off a into the cliff into the void, and its marker wont go away.

Start and finish has to be the same spot (or very close to each other).

The thing most people do wrong is "only recording 1 direction instead of both"... that's why it either will drive off into nowhere or go straight from B to A without following the route you recorded.
Remember to record the pause too.

[Shane]

walk up to the node interact with as prompted and select delete node

[Vegetable Vampire]

Originally posted by Aeekto:

Originally posted by Eldon:

I was going to ask if anyone knows how to remove markers both auto pilot and tractor.

I made a path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my tractor drive off a into the distance, away from the markers.

decided the path was to long and the start was too far from finish.
i made a gocart.
I made a new path, activated auto pilot, got out.
and watched my gocart drive off a into the cliff into the void, and its marker wont go away.

Start and finish has to be the same spot (or very close to each other).

The thing most people do wrong is "only recording 1 direction instead of both"... that's why it either will drive off into nowhere or go straight from B to A without following the route you recorded.
Remember to record the pause too.

Does it automatically wait until it is loaded/unloaded or does it wait as long as in the recording?

[Shane]

it waits at the node marked ||