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I would like to add the sound of an air compressor to the default MSTS scotsman sound folder, so that when I alias US and Australian steam locomotives to the scotsman I can have the sound for the compressor recharging the brake reservoir.I’ve tried cutting and pasting the part of the script in the Common.Snd Train Artisan’s eng.sms file that refers to the compressor, and copied the corresponding .wav file from the TA folder to the scotsman folder.It will not work.I suspect that it is my understanding of triggers that may be deficient.Can anyone more familiar than me with .sms scripts provide me with some guidance: What have I done wrong? How can I get this to work? What are triggers? Is there some bible that will help me decipher the .sms script?In much ignorance and in need of assistance, thanks, Phil
Phil if you looked at any of our Steam Locomotives, say the Big Boy, the solution is there since we have had this working for over a year...Chuck Schneider (Virtual) CEO North American (Virtual) Locomotive Works
Chuck -Thanks for the comment. Not many people seem to hang out here.Actually the NALW sound files were my first port of call when I started thinking about this.Then I visited others, and was quite puzzled why: A lot of North American locomotives use English chain coupler sounds for coupling and uncoupling - why not auto? There seem to be external three coupling/uncoupling sounds, but which one is called under what circumstances? In the .sms files, everything seems to be repeated twice repeated twice?? Some sounds are in the locomotive's sound file (for example bells and whistles) while some are elsewhere (for example coupling) - could we put all sounds in the same file and train-sim would automatically find it?All in all I'm not all that impressed by the Microsoft programmers and I have the feeling that maybe a lot of the script and .wav files are redundant, but I'm not sure which.Phil
You are basically correct Phil.... The Kuju (Microsoft would not hire them and just fired them) Programmers suk IMPO after over 35 years in the business.... That's what you get when you out source stuff to places you don't have extradition treaties with.... Great Stuff isn't it? But it was done cheaply so costs were low and profits maximized....The reason a lot of NA locos use the English chain coupler sounds is that the original SMS files are based on the FS and for whatever reason the modeler never updated them completely...... Remember the FS was the closest to a NA steam loco...The Train Simulator\Sound folder is the default that everything goes to when it can't find the sound specified in the SMS file in the local sound folder for the specific model or in the alias folder referenced by the ENG file... The problem is it would require everything to have a unique name and no one has taken on that job yet.... with MSTS2 eminent or so we think it's probably not worth anyone's time to mess with it until we know for sure what the folder structure in MSTS2 will be....Oh yeah and did I mention that IMPO Kuju's product/program management and programmers and analysts, based on the product quality they produced in MSTS, are merely incompetent on a good day and it goes downhill from there.... (note to self: don't ever hire anyone who worked on MSTS2 no matter how cheap they are willing to work...) (note2 to self: don't worry about note1 as current employer, by statue, can only hire US citizens.) Chuck Schneider (Virtual) CEO North American (Virtual) Locomotive Works
