How to copy a base game vehicles for modding

[jah6575]

I was going to try and modify the base game animal trailer to haul chickens. Never done this type of mod before so was wondering how I get access to a base game vehicle. I couldn’t find the path in my game folder to even get started. Any thoughts? I am using the steam version.

[TSM]

Giants Editor allows you to create a mod from the game.

https://gdn.giants-software.com/downloads.php

[mikejl46]

I gave that a try, create a mod from the game, put it in the mod folder, but it won't show up in the game, doesn't show up in the mods selection before the game starts. So how do you make the created mod show up in the game?

[jah6575]

Did you have an xml file for it and if so did it have the correct version number? I ran into that on 17

[jah6575]

Giants Editor allows you to create a mod from the game.

https://gdn.giants-software.com/downloads.php

Thanks. I’ll try that.

[gilroy222]

Any of you gentlemen feel like modifying the large Great Plains planter to do corn/sunflower/sugar beet and then submitting the mod to the hub for us poor console users?

Giants confirmed they will not be fixing this despite 15 threads in the bug reports on both english and german forums of people wanting this changed.

[TSM]

Any of you gentlemen feel like modifying the large Great Plains planter to do corn/sunflower/sugar beet and then submitting the mod to the hub for us poor console users?

Giants confirmed they will not be fixing this despite 15 threads in the bug reports on both english and german forums of people wanting this changed.

Pretty sure someone will do one , but I doubt even if a modder did Giants would accept it for consoles as it would be an edit of their models.

[gilroy222]

Any of you gentlemen feel like modifying the large Great Plains planter to do corn/sunflower/sugar beet and then submitting the mod to the hub for us poor console users?

Giants confirmed they will not be fixing this despite 15 threads in the bug reports on both english and german forums of people wanting this changed.

Pretty sure someone will do one , but I doubt even if a modder did Giants would accept it for consoles as it would be an edit of their models.

I've seen that "Custom Modding" have already done one, and corrected an issue that the in-game one apparently has. But screw Giants if they don't like it... they should of done it themselves then

[TSM]

Any of you gentlemen feel like modifying the large Great Plains planter to do corn/sunflower/sugar beet and then submitting the mod to the hub for us poor console users?

Giants confirmed they will not be fixing this despite 15 threads in the bug reports on both english and german forums of people wanting this changed.

Pretty sure someone will do one , but I doubt even if a modder did Giants would accept it for consoles as it would be an edit of their models.

I've seen that "Custom Modding" have already done one, and corrected an issue that the in-game one apparently has. But screw Giants if they don't like it... they should of done it themselves then

Giants as far as I am ware can only make models that exist in real world.

[gilroy222]

Pretty sure someone will do one , but I doubt even if a modder did Giants would accept it for consoles as it would be an edit of their models.

I've seen that "Custom Modding" have already done one, and corrected an issue that the in-game one apparently has. But screw Giants if they don't like it... they should of done it themselves then

Giants as far as I am ware can only make models that exist in real world.

This is the issue everyone is having... This planter in real life comes from the factory to do corn... For some reason Giants took that away... So in this case Giants has not designed a model that exists in the real world

[jah6575]

Alright guys. I need some help again. I have used Giants editor to copy the in game betimax trailer. I made the icon and store icon dds files. I then modified the trailer xml file by adding a line after the cows copying the cow line, removing the cow from the new line and replacing it with chicken. And capacity of 20. I modified the modDesc xml that Giants editor created for me by using one of Giants modhub mods as a reference. Activate developer mode in game and load the game. My mod isn’t showing up in the downloaded section and when activate developer mode in the game it says error loading my mod because it doesn’t have a mod desc version. I checked again and everything looks ok to me.

[jah6575]

Here is the log

	GIANTS Engine Runtime 8.0.0 (18001) 64bit Steam (Build Date: Dec 11 2018) Copyright (c) 2008-2018, GIANTS Software GmbH (giants-software.com), All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c) 2003-2018, Christian Ammann and Stefan Geiger, All Rights Reserved. Application: FarmingSimulator2019 Main System CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100 CPU @ 3.90GHz Memory: 8100 MB OS: Windows NT 10.0 64-bit Physics System Version: 5.9.5 Thread(s): 2 Input System Keyboard enabled Mouse enabled Gamepad/Joystick enabled Force Feedback disabled Devices: XINPUT_GAMEPAD Number of Axes: 6 Number of Buttons: 14 Audio System Driver: SoftMixer WASAPI Stereo Version: 2018.11 Frequency: 48000 Max. active sources: 256 Render System Driver: Direct 3D 11 Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Version: 23.20.16.4973 (28.2.2018) Revision: 161 Feature level: DirectX 11 Windowed Mode : off V-Sync : on Effective Window Resolution: 1280 x 720 Started 2 threads for threadpool 'Render threadpool' Hardware Profile Level: Custom Medium View Distance Factor: 1.000000 Shadow Quality: 1.000000 Base-Size: 2048 Filter-Size: 4 Shadow Focus Box false Shader Quality: 1 Skip Mipmaps: 1 LOD Distance Factor: 1.000000 Terrain LOD Distance Factor: 1.000000 Terrain Normal Mapping: Yes Foliage View Distance Factor: 1.000000 Volume Mesh Tessellation Factor: 1.000000 Tyre Tracks Segments Factor: 1.000000 Max. Number of Shadow Lights: 1 Max. Number of Lights: 512 Max. Number of Lights Per Cluster: 32 MSAA: 0 Bloom Quality: 3 SSAO Quality: 8 DOF: Disabled Cloud Quality: 2 Setting 'Master Volume': 1 Setting 'Is Train Tabbable': true Setting 'Radio Vehicle Only': true Setting 'Radio Active': false Setting 'Use Colorblind Mode': false Setting 'Easy Arm Control': true Setting 'Show Trigger Marker': false Setting 'Show Field-Info': true Setting 'Invert Y-Look': false Setting 'Show Help Icons': true Setting 'Radio Volume': 0.5 Setting 'Vehicle Volume': 0.80000001192093 Setting 'Environment Volume': 0.80000001192093 Setting 'GUI Volume': 0.5 Setting 'Master Volume': 1 Setting 'Music Volume': 0.69999998807907 Farming Simulator 19 (Steam) Version: 1.2.0.1 b3262 Available Languages: en de jp pl cz fr es ru it pt hu nl cs ct br tr ro kr Language: en Time: 2018-12-12 18:10:30 Load mod: FS19_mahindraRetriever (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: e0afcef487f47e2ae12d52199160141e) Error: Failed to open xml file 'C:/Users/Huebners/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2019/mods/FS19_BETIMAX_RDS_7500_CHICKENS/modDesc.xml'. Load mod: FS19_BETIMAX_RDS_7500_CHICKENS (Hash: a187d4f0504c24bb133304efdc706549) Error: Missing descVersion attribute in mod FS19_BETIMAX_RDS_7500_CHICKENS Load mod: FS19_caseIH1030 (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: 82617f45ab360f267a704382228f59d6) Load mod: FS19_caseIH1455XL (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: c9e6ed7f31b885e71542e7b77a625990) Load mod: FS19_caseIH1660 (Version: 1.0.1.0) (Hash: 788a7ec963fee190b25042d975ac2eb2) Load mod: FS19_flieglDPW180 (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: 857b54460affdb9bdc39026c8300e9be) Load mod: FS19_ursusT127 (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: 67e4b7396237f45245a1d61d93f81788) Load mod: FS19_ursusZ586 (Version: 1.0.0.0) (Hash: 14d1e5d33835b44d5dc194603289da92) dataS2/character/humans/characterAnimation.i3d (495.20 ms) dataS2/character/humans/pedestrians/pedestrianAnimation.i3d (204.43 ms) 2018-12-12 18:10 Error: Failed to request recommended mods, HTTP error code 0 2018-12-12 18:10 Application quit 2018-12-12 18:10 Error: Failed to request recommended mods, HTTP error code 0 2018-12-12 18:10 Error: Failed to request recommended mods, HTTP error code 0 [\spoiler]

[jah6575]

Any of you gentlemen feel like modifying the large Great Plains planter to do corn/sunflower/sugar beet and then submitting the mod to the hub for us poor console users?

Giants confirmed they will not be fixing this despite 15 threads in the bug reports on both english and german forums of people wanting this changed.

I have been playing with altering base game vehicles lately again, with success this time. Though I don’t know how to use blender at this point so I can’t make my own 3d models yet. I think the planter issue can be fixed with a simple edit, while we can’t do that on console I have been looking at this as well on my to do list. Now that I’m done messing around with balers and skid steers, I think I’m going to try to remedy this issue for us. However even though I have done mods in the past, each time I had them kicked back at least once, and they still have about 200 mods under testing, so even if I can get this done by next weekend and working, it might be a month or more before it hits modhub.

[gilroy222]

I wouldn't worry about it. It has since been updated in the most recent patch to include corn. Thanks though.