Less turning follower when driving in front

[Dzi4d3k]

Hello,

I observed that following vehicle is trying to drive on the same path on which followed vehicle was driving. This is OK, when following vehicle is on the back, but not very useful when it is in front.
In following scenario, when I'm cutting crops with combine, I set tractor to follow combine with trailer available under pipe. For biggest combines and biggest trailers, this have to be aprox. 10m in front and 10m right offset.
This is working until it comes to turns. When combine is turning then tractor tends to overdrive in front of combine on to crops.
Now question is it possible to make followers making less narrow turns when driving in front of followed vehicle, this could help to avoid situation when following vehicle is blocking followed vehicle (last words sound odd, isn't it).

Regards.

[DeckerMMIV]

That will be difficult for me to figure out.

The problem is, that once the 'follower' is ahead of the 'leader', then there are no "breadcrumbs" to follow, so the 'follower' has to use the first available "breadcrumb" (which is the 'leader's' current position), and apply the distance & offset values to, to use as a 'virtual breadcrumb' position to drive towards.

Maybe you could try a work-around when in-game: If there is enough headland before combine has to turn, try to send the 'follower' even further ahead (increase ahead distance) and then pause it (default keys: RIGHT SHIFT+H), so you can get the combine into position for the next lane. Now decrease the 'follower's' ahead distance back to what it was before, and resume the 'follower', hoping that it can make the 180-degree turn without colliding with anything.

[Dzi4d3k]

I supposed that it will not be easy.
Proposed approach sound like good workaround.
But may it could work if we take int account following conditions:

• if following vehicles is in front of followed
• and if followed vehicle has made more that 90 degree turn within last 5 seconds (this may be difficult to code)
• delay turning in following vehicle for 3 seconds and then align its path to followed vehicle

If this would be hard to achieve, then do not bother, just drop this enhancement.