FS25 Auto Switch V1.0.3.6

FS25 Auto Switch V1.0.3.6

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AutoSwitch works as a companion mod for automatic tire-pressure management and differential-lock control, while making traction more realistic. Variable Tire Pressure, Enhanced Vehicle, MoreRealistic, Mud System Physics and Tractor Terrain Dynamics can work together through it without any of those mods being modified.

Features

• Tire pressure: when AutoDrive or Courseplay is being used, pressure is lowered in the field and raised on the road. Manual driving offers Automatic and Manual mode. VTP’s automatic inflation at 30 km/h is turned off.
• Differentials (Enhanced Vehicle): once wheel slip passes the adjustable threshold, the front and rear differentials lock. They unlock at half that value. This allows 4WD in the field, 2WD on the road, unlocking while turning, and resetting after the game loads.
• Grip (MoreRealistic): wet-ground grip loss has 5 levels. Locked differentials provide a bonus, and wear from Use Your Tyres is included.
• Dual wheels: Mud System Physics receives the actual width. Wet-ground grip is improved, and VTP receives a fix for tires that use brand variants.
• Display: beside the speedometer, the recommended speed range and slip percentage are shown, together with a slip warning.
• Sowing: seeding is protected, seeders can be filled with the lid closed, and crushed strips can be re-sown directly.
• Mud: on its first launch, the mod proposes recommended Mud System Physics and TTD settings.

Rear dual-wheel rack

• The tires are BKT 650/65R42.
• Price: €4,500.
• It is available in both the shop and the construction menu.
• Each tire is mounted or removed separately, taking 15 in-game minutes per tire.
• The tractor remains locked throughout the job.

Front dual-wheel rack

• The tires are BKT 540/65R30.
• Price: €3,500.
• It can be found in the shop and construction menu.
• Mounting and removal take place tire by tire, at 15 in-game minutes per tire.
• The tractor is locked while the job is in progress.

Using the dual-wheel racks

• Put the rear rack and, for the front axle, the front rack next to each other.
• Drive the tractor into the ground rectangle. It changes from red to green when the position is correct.
• Leave the tractor, stand at the yellow marker, press Right Ctrl + I, and confirm the action.
• To remove the wheels, follow the same steps with empty racks. The original tires are restored.

The dual wheels have to use the same tire brand as the tractor tires.

Open the settings through Settings > General > AutoSwitch.

Required mods (all mandatory):

• FS25_VariableTirePressure
• FS25_EnhancedVehicle
• FS25_AutoDrive
• FS25_Courseplay
• MoreRealistic
• moreRealisticXmlDatabank
• FS25_MudSystemPhysics
• FS25_TractorTerrainDynamics
• FS25_DynamicDrivePro
• FS25_useYourTyres
• FS25_RealisticHarvesting
• FS25_CropDestructionOverhaul
• FS25_MoistureSystem

Known limitations

• Changing wheels works only in single-player. The tractor briefly freezes while reloading, and the pause is longer when implements are attached.
• Dual wheels cannot be added to a tractor whose file does not contain a dual-wheel configuration.

Changelog

V1.0.3.6

• VTP pressure information is live and axle-specific when the vehicle has VTP: “Front: x.x bar” appears above the tractor and “Rear: x.x bar” below it.
• In the construction menu, the tire-rack decoration is now solid, vehicles can no longer drive through it, and construction mode can remove it.
• The AUTOSWITCH tab now has a crop-calendar setting. By default, sowing and harvest dates come from the map, or they can come from Climate Profiles.
• With Advanced Damage System, worker service, the workshop and parts purchases on the paying farm include the overdraft.
• Detached implements receive a parking brake when their wheels have no brake.
• Worn rubber now uses a gloss map, removing the “gloss map added by script” warning.
• For performance, lights are read 4 times per second rather than every frame, the AUTOSWITCH tab is prepared during loading, and the “renderOverlay called too soon” warning is gone.

V1.0.3.5

• When Real Physics – Tire Wear (Reifenverschleiss) is present in the mods folder, loading no longer stops at 55 %, whether the mod is enabled or not. This prevents the BaseMission.lua:451 g_onCreateUtil error. Tire Wear remains blocked.

V1.0.3.4

• Trelleborg TwinRadial tires are no longer selected as dual wheels in the shop, so machines no longer appear without wheels.
• Tractor Terrain Dynamics 3.8 no longer produces the repeated TTDStateManager.lua:159 error.
• If Advanced Damage System and Realistic Mechanical Systems are enabled together, AutoSwitch blocks RMS. Vehicles in the workshop that RMS left locked are unlocked during loading.
• An attached implement no longer flickers between its image and the fallback HUD drawing.
• Every 100 ms, AutoSwitch checks differentials, the slip warning and tires.
• FarmPilot is accepted as an alternative to AutoDrive in the required-mod check.
• Tire racks have their real shop size, forks can slide underneath and lift them, and their weight is based on the tires.
• AutoSwitch reserves Right Ctrl + I, Up, M, R and C.

V1.0.3

• AutoSwitch now includes tire wear, so a separate tire mod is no longer needed, including Use Your Tyres and Reifenverschleiß. Distance, wheel slip, load, ground, pressure, road speed and weather all affect wear on every tire and track.
• A worn tire has reduced field grip, slightly increased grip on dry roads, a somewhat smaller radius and visibly worn rubber. Rubber tracks become smooth at 100 %.
• The HUD shows one bar and percentage for every wheel, including tires on attached tools and trailers below the tractor. Alerts appear at 75 % and 90 %. The workshop has a “New tires” button, the AUTOSWITCH tab contains tire-life and on/off settings, and TTD reads this wear.
• If vehicles were driving with Courseplay when the game was saved, they start again when the savegame loads, according to the tab option.
• The top of the field window now shows the total number of owned hectares.
• The mini weather display no longer covers the background of the clock bar.
• Forage harvesters receive new HUD icons for 4×4 and 4×2. Their axles and driveline appear grey or red when locked.

1.0.2.0

• With AutoDrive, forage-harvester spouts can fill a trailer from farther away, gaining an additional 5m of reach.
• HUD icons, the mod icon and shop icons for tire pallets are compressed in DXT5 format. This removes “raw format” warnings from the log.txt file and lowers memory use.
• “Use Your Tyres” is the only supported tire-wear system. “Real Physics – Tire Wear” (Reifenverschleiß) is disabled and blocked when active. An in-game notification appears, together with a red line in the AUTOSWITCH tab.

1.0.1.8

• In AUTO mode, lowering a plow prevents the rear differential lock from disengaging during steering. It therefore remains locked while plowing. The front lock still disengages when the steering angle is above 20%.
• While plowing, the “Straighten wheels” alert no longer appears. In AUTO mode, it disappears as soon as the wheels are straight.
• The AUTOSWITCH tab now provides separate settings for each light type, including high beams, front and rear work lights, beacons, hazard/signal lights and others. Range and brightness were changed by a factor from 1.1x to 2.5x, with 2x for high beams and work lights and 1.1x for the remaining lights.
• “Real Physics – Tire Wear” (Reifenverschleiß) is blocked, and AutoSwitch disables it if it is active.

AutoSwitch 1.0.1.1

New features since release 1.0.0.88:

1.0.1.1

• In AUTO mode, lowering a plow locks the rear differential and shows an “in-ground” notification. Raising the plow unlocks it. During plowing, neither the wheel-slip rule nor unlocking on turns affects the rear differential. MANUAL mode behaves as before.

1.0.1.0

• Cooperatives once again write [AS_CoopPay] entries to the log.txt file. These entries show each point of sale’s type, the amount to receive and the end-of-month payouts.

1.0.0.97

• The AUTOSWITCH tab now follows “General Settings” immediately, rather than being placed at the end of the tab bar.
• Its page is named “AutoSwitch”, replacing the “MISSING vtpas_tabTitle” error.
• The mouse wheel now scrolls the page correctly. It is loaded from gui/AS_SettingsPage.xml, instead of being copied from the “General Settings” page.

1.0.0.96

• When “Use Your Tyres” and “Reifenverschleiß” (Tire Wear) are used together, Mud System Physics no longer displays the “two wear mods detected” warning window. AutoSwitch handles the conflict automatically, while a note remains in the log.txt file.