ATS 1.38 Discussion

[flight50]

@GT182 I made it myself. First copy over all the truck dlc's or the one's you want to bobtail. Extract and then you have to go into each truck dlc for the AI and change the "semi_trailer" to just be "". Basically you just remove the text out of the quotations. You have to copy the strand 2-3 times. Iirc, the more copies you do with only one "" in the file name, the rarer the truck is suppose to bobtail. You have to do this for each A,B and C type if they exist in the file structure. Now I don't know if this works in 1.38, I haven't tried it yet. I just really noticed no bobtails last night. I'll try it later today if I get to play.

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[Mohegan13]

The best way to do it is actually just to duplicate the files, rename them and the siiunit name so they don't overwrite. Remove the the trailer_chains line completely and use the spawn_ratio to dictate how frequently you want them to spawn where 1.0 is default.

They will always spawn without trailer if trailer_chains is missing.

[flight50]

Ahhh. Thanks Moh. I'll try that instead then.

[GT182]

I thought my Panda antivirus was the culprit as it was updated the other day. I now get Steam checking and updating when I start my computer. I went with Avast to try it out for 60 days. It just popped up that I don't have to worry about Avast messing with ATS. That sounds like a good thing... but still no update.

I just started ATS and still no update from 138.1.1. And I still get the download message in game. Oh well I'm not going to worry about it and I can still play. So it's off to Billings, Montana.

[piva]

Still about truck engine sounds. When I made some tests on ATS 1.38 and using Mack truck with default sound - I don't hear difference between 1600 and 2200 rpm, I use H-Shifter and I don't hear when I must change gear. Uninformative sound. Very unpleasant driving.

[Roadkill]

talking about Oakland, is anyone else still having massive traffic there? It´s been like this for ages. Besides this city I'm not having traffic spawn issues anywhere else.
And no, I don´t use any traffic mods. And what is even weirder is that this traffic is like 99 % cars for me, no trucks with trailers or bobtails hardly ever. Should be the other way round since Oakland is one the biggest ports of USA.

@LAFAYET47 I know a few of the map mods have traffic changes in them. Take a look at page 1 of Minor Urban Overhaul thread for an example of how to remove the traffic changes.

[cip]

go into each truck dlc for the AI and change the "semi_trailer" to just be "". Basically you just remove the text out of the quotations

I think removing "truck_semi" (as semi_trailer chains is named in 1.38) will make only bobtail trucks. you need to add a separate line with the trailer_chains[]: ""
Mohegan's idea is good but it requires a lot of time to duplicate all trucks files and rename them. you can perhaps duplicate only a version from each truck and give spawn_ratio: 0.01 (minimum spawn value)

[Mohegan13]

It only takes time if you do it manually.

I use renamer (fnr) and bulk rename utility to do all the renaming instantly. 60 seconds tops.

[flight50]

I will have to play with the idea. I attempted last night but I am not good at knowing how the game files work. I did 3 trucks the way I knew how and it worked. I will need more time to figure out this other way. I usually need step by step to get such manipulation correct. One thing I didn’t see is the spawn ratio. What text stand is that or is that in a different sii file?

[cip]

I use renamer (fnr) and bulk rename utility to do all the renaming instantly. 60 seconds tops.

ok, to rename files it's fast no doubts, but to make clone of each truck you need to rename all defs and possibly those of accessories too, for each truck (if accessories defs do not start with a dot). this you cannot do in bulk because the defs of each truck is different of course so it will take some time. I use notepad++ for all kind of bulk edits, adding/removing bulk rules, lines, but for different defs I did not find a solution yet
@flight50 trucks do not have spawn_ratio by default (at least not all), if you have a look in my sound mod (for inspiration) you will see that I added spawn_ratio rules for many Ai vehicles