Recommendation for loco designers.

[PepinoP]

Attention, loco designers.

I have found three common mistakes in sms files with aliasing sounds files, which are distributed with your locos.

First one :
In cab sms files ( like GP38Cab.sms ) do not alias waves like this example :

File ( "../../GP38/sound/couple_auto1.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/couple_auto2.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/couple_auto3.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/uncouple_auto1.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/uncouple_auto2.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/uncouple_auto3.wav" -1 )

This waves are in ...Train Simulator\Sounds\... folder and therefore aliasing is not necessary.
If you use aliasing, your loco will be missing coupling and uncoupling sounds.

Second one :
In eng sms file ( like GP38Eng.sms ) do not alias waves like this example :

File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_couple_auto1.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_couple_auto2.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_couple_auto3.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_uncouple_auto1.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_uncouple_auto2.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/x_uncouple_auto3.wav" -1 )

This waves are in ...Train Simulator\Sounds\... folder and therefore aliasing is not necessary.
If you use aliasing, your loco will be missing coupling and uncoupling sounds.

And last one :
In eng sms file ( like GP38Eng.sms ) do not alias waves like this example :

File ( "../../GP38/sound/a_d_comp1.wav" -1 )
File ( "../../GP38/sound/a_d_comp2.wav" -1 )

This waves are in ...Train Simulator\Sounds\... folder and therefore aliasing is not necessary.
If you use aliasing, your loco will be missing sounds in AI service.

Thank you for your effort in bringing us the best locos for MSTS.


Peter P.

[TrirailF40PHL]

All KLW products have correctly aliased .SMS files....thought you would like to know :-)

Kurt
KLWTrainSim Tech
www.klwtrainsim.cjb.net