Adding cotton fill type to a bulk trailer

[GeekMaster189]

hello

im wanting to modify a bulk trailer mod i have downloaded to accept cotton as a fill type i know how to change the capacity of it but just not adding a fill type

within the xml file there is no mention of what fill types for the trailer so I am hoping someone could help make the code so that the trailer can accept cotton as a fill type,


i would be very aprecative if someone would be able to type the bit of code for me as coding isn't my strong point

below is a copy where the fill type is bulk can someone help me add cotton to the list please?

<fillUnit shopDisplayUnit="CUBICMETER" fillTypeCategories="bulk" capacity="20000000000">
<exactFillRootNode node="exactFillRootNode2"/>
<autoAimTargetNode node="autoAimTarget2" startZ="3.8" endZ="-3.8" invert="false" fillUnitIndex="1" startPercentage="25"/>
</fillUnit>

[Haubi]

Cotton is always harvested as bales in the FS, regardless of which harvesting machine is used. Bales cannot be landed as bulk material. There are enough other trailers with autoload etc. for that.

[Eische]

May he is using a basket harvester instead of the defaults balers?

The fruit type category "bulk" is defined in the filltypes.xml of the map. A category is basically a group of many fill types.
So you either can add cotton to this category.
Or you can change this line in your trailer xml

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<fillUnit shopDisplayUnit="CUBICMETER" fillTypeCategories="bulk" capacity="20000000000">

to this line

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<fillUnit shopDisplayUnit="CUBICMETER" fillTypes="cotton wheat and any other fill type you want" capacity="20000000000">

With FS22 there is another way to achieve this:
Create a new xml file and copy this as content:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?>
<map xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../../shared/xml/schema/fillTypes.xsd">
	
    <fillTypeCategories>
		<fillTypeCategory name="BULK">COTTON</fillTypeCategory>
    </fillTypeCategories>
</map>

Save the file, copy it to your mod zip file and link it in the modDesc.xml of your trailer mod with a line like this:

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	<fillTypes 	filename="newfilltypes.xml" />

The game will add any contents of your added file to the existing file of the map. In this case, cotton will be added to the bulk category on any map, and all trailers with bulk category will be able to load cotton.

Please be aware that this will not enable you to tip cotton onto the ground. And I'm not sure if you can sell cotton this way as most selling stations or productions accept cotton only as bales.

[GeekMaster189]

thank you so much for your help

Im gonna try your codes and hopefully they all work, if this does work then it means I can uninstall the lizard rumbler van completely thank you so much

[GeekMaster189]

update

thank you so much it works and now I have finally uninstalled the van so thank you so much for helping me

[Eische]

Great! Thank you for the feedback.