Cute, but what can it do?

[SCLALINE]

i have a homepatrol scanner and can record detectors across the country (BNSF, CSX, ETC)

ill start working on it

[PapaXpress]

Can you get UP by chance?

And does it sound different when Amtrak runs across them?

[CSX2057]

I can try to make a defect detector voices. But I need to find a detector file for it.

[harryadkins]

There's some defect detector sounds under the MSTS section at Train-sim.com.

[CSX2057]

Thanks!

[CSX2057]

Ok I just downloaded and there 2 major problems with the defect detector.

1 You don't hear it in the cab and thats not good. 2 its not loud enough. I found a custom file and I'm not sure if I can duplicate the detector to make it more louder, add custom milepost and temperature that I can try. Axel Idk, Speed ooo that might be a little to much. If its okay with SMM Digital. For me to make the defect talk louder. Not sure if you can hear it in the cab

[Chacal]

IIRC, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, making it louder isn't the best way to make it audible in the cab.
Read the dev docs about sound and look for information about cab occlusion.

Seems to me the defect detector should be audible ONLY in the cab, and that is probably done in the cab sound blueprint rather than the engine blueprint or the scenery blueprint.

[CSX2057]

Cool!

[SCLALINE]

well im glad he made one, would be nice to have detector audio, but to make one really work would be really complicated

[CSX2057]

I'm glad he did!

But I wish I can figure out how to add it in the cab :/ I may have to use the NEC Defect Detector.

[MadMike1024]

I'm glad he did!

But I wish I can figure out how to add it in the cab :/ I may have to use the NEC Defect Detector.

The Donner Pass locos have the code for a defect detector in their .lua files. Mr. Cowen has begun including the code in his locos as well.

[SCLALINE]

Code: Select all

-- Track messages.
-- Handles detector messages.

function OnCustomSignalMessage ( Parameter )

   if ( Call( "GetIsPlayer" ) == TRUE ) and ( Call ("GetIsEngineWithKey") == TRUE ) then

      Detect = string.sub ( Parameter, 14, 15 )

      if Detect == "1" then

         Detect1 = Call( "*:GetControlValue", "TrackDetect1", 0 )
         Call( "*:SetControlValue", "TrackDetect1", 0, Detect1 + 1 )

      elseif Detect == "2" then

         Detect2 = Call( "*:GetControlValue", "TrackDetect2", 0 )
         Call( "*:SetControlValue", "TrackDetect2", 0, Detect2 + 1 )

      end

[glenn68]

Hey, that is excellent. I bet this could not be done in MSTS.

[SCLALINE]

how does the detector work in DP, ive never seen it

[CSX2057]

Okay I just wanna double check. Does NEC route and Donner Pass route has Defect detector?