First if all, I really like your Mod. It totally deserves the name Universal, because to my knowledge it is the most universal Autoloader available for FS22. But I think, it could be even more universal.
User Story (maybe a bit long)
I'm playing with friends online that have different levels of skills or different dedications to realism. Some really love to manually load pallets, Big Bags and bales, even if this takes quite some time to get it proper. But due to the lack of depth information (2D monitors) and the tedious controls of FS22 it's really hard to stack everything perfectly straight.
Then I have friends that want to load manually with some support. They would love to use your manual loading, that means lift the pallet above the trailer and let the magic sort it to the proper place. And last but not least there are those friends that only want to have a good time with FS22 without getting too deeply involved. They would use autoload from the ground.
It would be perfect if the Universal Autoloader serves every play style. But as far as I understand the settings at most two player types gets served.
If I set disableManualLoading to true, than player 1 and 3 are satisfied. P3 can use autoloading and P1 can drill into the task to proper stack every pallet. But P2 has to choose whether he uses autoload which is not that challenging or use complete manual loading which might be too challenging for him.
If I set disableManualLoading to false and configure every trailer so that side and rear loading is enabled (so that manual loading is enabled on every trailer) then P2 and P3 are happy, but for P1 the manual manual loading is not working because for stacks of pallets on the fork only the bottom gets loaded (as described in #232).
Feature Request
Of course, it would be good to have a) client mod settings in MP or b) the possibility (via keybindings) to change the UA behavior for a trailer in-game.
But I want to request something that goes further, something that I don't know whether this is even possible:
I want to propose the option to just manually load the trailer without magically sorting every loaded pallet to a proper place within the loading zone. Then, there should be a key binding to rearrange every container to a proper place. This keybinding should be different from the normal Load Keybinding because maybe I want to straighten up everything I've just loaded before I finish loading. In this case I don't want to load every pallet that is still on the ground.
The optimum would be, if this rearrangement take the relative position of the container to each other into account, so that a pallet that is manually stacked on top of another pallet will also be stacked after the rearrangement.
I have no knowledge in scripting (allthought I can read lua and more or less understand what happens there). But maybe I can help in developing algorithms. So, if you need to talk about possible solutions, you can contact me (in German or English).
First if all, I really like your Mod. It totally deserves the name Universal, because to my knowledge it is the most universal Autoloader available for FS22. But I think, it could be even more universal.
User Story (maybe a bit long)
I'm playing with friends online that have different levels of skills or different dedications to realism. Some really love to manually load pallets, Big Bags and bales, even if this takes quite some time to get it proper. But due to the lack of depth information (2D monitors) and the tedious controls of FS22 it's really hard to stack everything perfectly straight.
Then I have friends that want to load manually with some support. They would love to use your manual loading, that means lift the pallet above the trailer and let the magic sort it to the proper place. And last but not least there are those friends that only want to have a good time with FS22 without getting too deeply involved. They would use autoload from the ground.
It would be perfect if the Universal Autoloader serves every play style. But as far as I understand the settings at most two player types gets served.
If I set disableManualLoading to true, than player 1 and 3 are satisfied. P3 can use autoloading and P1 can drill into the task to proper stack every pallet. But P2 has to choose whether he uses autoload which is not that challenging or use complete manual loading which might be too challenging for him.
If I set disableManualLoading to false and configure every trailer so that side and rear loading is enabled (so that manual loading is enabled on every trailer) then P2 and P3 are happy, but for P1 the manual manual loading is not working because for stacks of pallets on the fork only the bottom gets loaded (as described in #232).
Feature Request
Of course, it would be good to have a) client mod settings in MP or b) the possibility (via keybindings) to change the UA behavior for a trailer in-game.
But I want to request something that goes further, something that I don't know whether this is even possible:
I want to propose the option to just manually load the trailer without magically sorting every loaded pallet to a proper place within the loading zone. Then, there should be a key binding to rearrange every container to a proper place. This keybinding should be different from the normal Load Keybinding because maybe I want to straighten up everything I've just loaded before I finish loading. In this case I don't want to load every pallet that is still on the ground.
The optimum would be, if this rearrangement take the relative position of the container to each other into account, so that a pallet that is manually stacked on top of another pallet will also be stacked after the rearrangement.
I have no knowledge in scripting (allthought I can read lua and more or less understand what happens there). But maybe I can help in developing algorithms. So, if you need to talk about possible solutions, you can contact me (in German or English).