Transport Tycoon Forums

Hi there,

I have accomplished a lot of things for myself. But I could sure need some help with this. I have a problem with the scrapyard.

Since most of the times there are a lot of car-dealers in a town and it would be a stupid sight to create only train-routes from the car-dealers to the scrapyards I was wondering if it would be possible to make an existing truck to carry scrap. Via this method it would sure be a lot simpeler to transport scrapmetal from a dealer to a nearby scrapyard.

But how can you do this ?

I want to change the coal/iron ore/grain truck so it can carry scrap metal, does somebody know how to do this ?

Here's an example-screen of how it has to be...(Sorry about placing the wrong type of industry, of course the steelworks has to be a factory) Thnxsss for the help guys !

Just find the cargoID of the scrap

It already worked, but thankls for the reply Alien. I found it out for myself. I copied the cargo from the scrapmetal-train car to the truck and changed it name in the XML. file from SHOPPER to SRHOPPER and the nam of the dat file as well.

For that I changed the cargo code in the XML from the original to this:

<cargo num="0" capacity="32">
<cargotype id="22">0</cargotype>
<cargotype id="23">512</cargotype>
</cargo>

Now I have 2 trailers. One for scrap, and one for grain, iron ore and coal (See Screenshot)
The only thing that I wasn't able to change was the scrapmetal in the truck. It still looks as if it transports coal...

If there is a way to change that as well I would love to know that, but it probebly has something to do with changing it sprite by sprite

Can´t you use the brown from the Iron Ore load? That is almost a "rusty" colour.

Yeah that looks a lot better of course. But how do I do that ? It now took Coal as a load. How can I make it use the Iron ore load ? Should I remove the Coal sprites, or do I have to use another code for that ?

Thnx !

As usual Try and Error:

This is what i see with my code change. Truck 2 is half loaded, Truck 1 is fully loaded.

Types 22 & 23 are for Plastikmans both types of scrap i believe?
For the sprites i think from 0 to 511 is used for the coal load
from 512 to 1023 is used for iron ore,
and from 1024 is for grain
Not sure but here it is working. p.s. truck = from Plastikman, original trailer from The Fanpage

Lighthouse has it correct for the sprite selection.

Maydays trucks are here http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=23752

Ok thanksss ! It worked. I also managed to change the truckload for an other truck, it can now transport waste !