Thank you for this thread, it's really interesting to read how others do stuff and I've learned quite a lot.
Here's how I do things:
I use a combination/interaction of AutoDrive for getting vehicles to places which connect to CoursePlay for field/tool work, with Guidance Steering for helping create really straight tracks on my self-driven paths in AutoDrive where desired.
The course editor in AutoDrive is excellent and it's quite easy to create a path exactly where wanted.
This is where it gets a little like I got mad cow disease ...
Previous versions of CoursePlay allowed for easy self-made "off-field" work course creation - for example mowing large plots of land in one continuous path, however the devs have (unfortunately) removed this feature from the FS22 version and now offer only "custom field" creation. Which is great!!! But doesn't suit my play-style.
BUT!! Yesterday I learned of a little "hack" via the AutoDrive and CoursePlay Github's from another user (thank you very much Michael) and found it's still possible to create custom off-field work paths for CoursePlay converting custom field tracks to work paths. It's nowhere near as elegant has having an option to "save track as custom field or work path", but it works quite well and requires no hacking of anyones intellectual property/code. I'm just hoping, as the devs seem quite protective of their vision of how to use CoursePlay, they don't change the ability to do this ...
The suggestion on the GitHubs was good, and I've adapted it to suit me and make use of "regular expressions".
Here's a simple 10 step outline of how to do it. It may be convenient to have a custom course already saved by CoursePlay in the "Courses" folder for your guidance with the XML structure.
Ready??
!. Lower the tools and drive/record your path with AutoDrive (use Guidance Steering/other if ya want), editing it to suit. Once recorded, AutoDrive will not "drive the path" with the tools engaged, but Guidance Steering can show width guidance if needed.
2. Set an end/final "target waypoint" in AutoDrive.
3. Set both the drive/corner speeds to be fairly slow in AutoDrive.
4. Return to the start of the path.
5. Drive the path using AutoDrive and record the drive using CoursePlay.
6. Save it as a custom field.
(STAY WITH ME!!
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7. Navigate to the folder containing the custom field save file and load it into NotePad++ or BBEdit (Mac) - or any other app which makes use of "regular expression"
8. Do a find and replace using this "regular expressions" and replacement.
Regex:
(\-?\d{0,3}\.\d{2})\s(\-?\d{0,3}\.\d{2})\s(\-?\d{0,3}\.\d{2})\|
Replacement:
<wp>\1 \3 - - - - - - -</wp>
9. After doing a regular expression find/replace, copy the entire block of text of all the "<wp> ... </wp>" 's and paste them between appropriate XML tags (see example) and .. Remember to change the name and workWidth to suit your path, although the workWidth doesn't really matter. This is new to me too so you'll need to play with the numHeadlands and multiTools options to see what you get...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<Courses>
<Course name="CustomPath" workWidth="8.9500000" numHeadlands="0" multiTools="1">
<waypoints>
<wp>-126.26 -685.39 - - - - - - -</wp>
<wp>-128.40 -684.74 - - - - - - -</wp>
</waypoints>
</Course>
</Courses>
10. Save this new file into the appropriate "Courses" folder/directory.
INSTANT CUSTOM WORK PATH in 10 simple to follow steps!!!
- PRETTY EASY! Hey!!!
See the closed issues on the AutoDrive and CoursePlay Github's if you're interested in background.
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Happy Farming!!