Ditchlights.dav and Bell

[Angelo]

Hey guys two questions. I found a great sound file for the relay click when the ditchlights oscillate in the Cab Car of passenger trains.

1. TS2015 has a relay sound that plays when you trigger the ditchlights via a switch w/o sounding the horn. If you sound the horn they flash minus that sound. I have replaced the sound already which is great, but I would like it to play when the horn is activated.

2. Is there a way to auto-start the bell when the horn is sounded per real-world operation? (F59Phi and CabCars)

Also if anyone here is knowledgeable in helping avoid hearing the "loop" of a sound when ported from MSTS that would be great. It's a bell sound that has the relay clicks built into it, and if I can avoid hearing the obvious loop that would be great! In MSTS the sounds plays fine for as long as you run it.

Angelo

[Angelo]

Not one person can provide any insight? Even if its a no go scenario?

[Chacal]

Q1: I think you could do that by creating a new sound loop for the relay sound in the proxyxml file, which would be activated by the horn control.
Q2: Same as Q1, add a new sound loop for the bell sound, activated by the horn control.

OR in both cases you could mix the 3 sounds (horn, relay and bell) in a mixer app like Audacity and replace the horn sound with it.
Simpler.

For your 3rd question, for TS you need to split your sound in 3 parts using an app such as Audacity: start, loop and end.
Start plays when you first activate the horn control, the loop plays as long as you keep the control activated, then stop plays when you release the control.

[Angelo]

Wow Chacal thanks so much for your input! I will try it this weekend and report back. Secondary question that maybe you could answer, All the locomotives that run on the Surfliner route (F59Phi / F59Ph / CabCar) they have a driver vigilance monitor but play NO SOUND when activating. It makes the locomotives difficult to drive because they will go into Emergency unbeknownst to the engineer because no sound is played.

I have noticed alerter.dav files in the respective cabs and engine folders, but I am not sure if they do anything or how to make them play an audible sound.

[Chacal]

Open the .proxybin sound file (in Audio/Railvehicles/...) in RW-Tools and search for "alerrter.dav".
If it's not referenced there, it isn't used.
If it is, check that the provider, product and path are correct.

[Angelo]

Okay, and will I be able to sub that for an alerter.wav file I have to replace it if I don't like the sound?

[Chacal]

Yes.

[Angelo]

Found aleter.dav and it is used for the Metrolink equipment, I replaced the file with an alerter.wav and changed the respective lines in cabcontrol.xml and still no audio. I can see the alerter is activating and should be making an aural sound (!) lights up in F3 hud. But still no sound is played at all. Any ideas?

[Angelo]

For your 3rd question, for TS you need to split your sound in 3 parts using an app such as Audacity: start, loop and end.
Start plays when you first activate the horn control, the loop plays as long as you keep the control activated, then stop plays when you release the control.

Okay I made the 3 files for the bell (Start, Loop, and End) however in the HornControlporxy.xml I only see Ext Bell loop, and Bell End, I do not see a Bell Start. Can I create this? If I use the bell loop in lieu of bell start then when the bell file replays I will hear the start of the bell again.

Is it simple as adding a line in the xml for a bell start?

[Angelo]

I worked out the bell problem, now If I could just get that darn alerter working.