Editing the Horn Sound File on the P42DC

[ColoradoRailfan]

One thing about the P42 thats been bugging me is that you can only hear the horn at a very short distance. Does anyone have a fix or some file that will allow me to hear the horn at a much farther distance? For example, the Default F7, you can hear the horn from like a mile or two away.

[FanRailer]

One thing about the P42 thats been bugging me is that you can only hear the horn at a very short distance. Does anyone have a fix or some file that will allow me to hear the horn at a much farther distance? For example, the Default F7, you can hear the horn from like a mile or two away.

you need to go into the proxybin file and locate the code for the horn sounds (usually horn_start, horn_loop, and horn_end, or something similar). Then you need to change the activation distance line of code (I think the value is in meters). Hope this sheds some light.

[ColoradoRailfan]

The .Bin or the .XML?

[Chacal]

the .proxybin and the .proxyxml.
The have to be similar.

Some say only the .proxyxml is necessary, but I have had a different experience.

[ColoradoRailfan]

What does the line look like? Im trying to search it, but it comes up with no results.

[Chacal]

Open Assets\RSC\P42Pack01\Audio\RailVehicles\Diesel\P42DC\Cab\P42DC_Horn.proxybin in RW-Tools.
Look for these two lines:

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<kLoud-cSingleSampleSound d:id="25318">
   <Name d:type="cDeltaString">Horn</Name>


These mark the beginning of the xml node for the Horn loop sound.
A little lower are these two lines:

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<AttenuationStartDist d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000005940" d:precision="string">100</AttenuationStartDist>
<NoFutherAttenuationDist d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000000040AF40" d:precision="string">4000</NoFutherAttenuationDist>


This says that, as long as you stay within 100 meters of the engine, the sound will remain at full volume. It will start decreasing at 100 m, until you reach 400m, at which point it won't decrease any further.
These values are pretty much standard.

[ColoradoRailfan]

Hmm, still cant get it to work, ill try more later.