Take off and Landing sounds

[JIMJAM 0]

Taking off and landing have always been 2 of the best parts of flying . I owned WOV and just bought FE and its expansion.

The sounds overall are pretty bad but those for take off and landings are non existant.

Missing are those rattles and squeaks while rolling and other appropriate sounds on touchdown.

This would add ALOT to the overall experience.

I have alot of experince changing and making customs sounds for FS9 and FSX but WOV and FE have me confused.

The sound folder I assume holds all the sounds for all the models.

However, if I change one, say TireTouch, nothing happens. The sim does not play it.

But I changed the flaps in WOV, and it worked.

Also is there a "roll" sound when you are rolling?

What is it and can it be changed.

Bottom Line- Any help getting some decent sounds during the take off and landing phase would be greatly appreciated. Jim

[+p10ppy 2]

It’s a little complicated (I agree they could use a spice up tho)

If you are just replacing sounds (i.e. your own wav with the same name overwriting an existing wav in the sound folder) its most likely a format problem.

From my hazy memory it needs to be 16 bit mono and 22050 or 11025 sample rate

A simple forum search here or at thirdwire will confirm that (don’t trust my memory)

 

Adding new sounds is a little more complicated

The sound.ini needs to be modified at the top

---snip---

SoundFile039=RotaryEngine

SoundFile040=hotchkiss

SoundFile041=lerhone

SoundFile042=Your sound here

 

And at the bottom (you need to play with the values)

---snip---

 

[lerhone]

Priority=LOW

3DSound=TRUE

DopplerEffect=TRUE

Looped=TRUE

NumBuffers=4

FrequencyControl=TRUE

MaxDist=1500.000000

MinDist=100.000000

InsideConeAngle=360

OutsideConeAngle=360

ConeOutsideVolume=0

 

These entries are pointed too from three places (I think)

 

1. The default AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INI in the ObjectData.CAT (slightly different name in the addon)

---snip---

[baseSoundType]

BreathingSoundName=Breathing

WindSoundName=WindLoop

StallSoundName=StallSound

EngineSoundName=JetEngine

AfterburnerSoundName=JetBurner

DamagedEngineSoundName=

FlapsSoundName=Flaps

AirbrakesSoundName=Airbrakes

GearsSoundName=Gear

LandingSoundName=TireTouch

GunJamSoundName=gun_jam

GunReloadSoundName=gun_reload

GunOutOfAmmoSoundName=gun_out

GunUnjamSoundName=gun_unjam

GunUnjamFailSoundName=gun_unjam_fail

 

2. And in an individual aircraft’s XXXXdata.ini

---snip---

[sound]

EngineSoundName=lerhone

GearsSoundName=Gear

EngineSoundPosition=0.000,1.0000,0.0000

 

I believe (not sure tho) that the XXXXdata.ini sound listings can override any entry in the AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INI (they are the defaults)

 

3. the gundata.ini

 

[GunData001]

TypeName=6.5MM_FIAT_REVELLI_M1914

FullName=6.5mm FIAT-Revelli M1914

----snip-----

GunFireSound=30cal

 

As far as I know (and I certainly don’t know that much) you can’t add any other sound “events” to the game, so no tire rollouts I’m afraid unless TK adds it

 

Goodluck

And I hope that helps a little

[JIMJAM 0]

Thanks for the detailed reply.

It would add so much to have a rattle and sqeak rolling and a big "thud" when you touch down.

So much time and effort spent on immersion and there are only a handful of generic sounds.

Ive been flying Eagles for a few hours and have a problem.

I cannot get the Camel throttle to increase.

Per the readme

With the FM on hard, you have to "blip" the throttle. I assume the throttle is all or nothing.

However, no matter what key I define to "blip", nothing happens. I can have zero throttle,50 or full power and hit blip and nothing.

Am I missing something here with the blip?

[Bandy 3]

I cannot get the Camel throttle to increase. Per the readme

With the FM on hard, you have to "blip" the throttle. I assume the throttle is all or nothing.

However, no matter what key I define to "blip", nothing happens. I can have zero throttle,50 or full power and hit blip and nothing.

Am I missing something here with the blip?

No, I was asking myself the same question though earlier. However, AFAIK the blip is when the throttle is advanced past 50%, then it is on, full bore... Less than 50% and the engine is off, that's it to the blip... So they used to "blip" the engine on at 100% to speed up, and then off to glide to slow down.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't found anything else on the subject for the game.

[JIMJAM 0]

I have turned the FM down a notch which at least allows me to use the plane.

BTW

Ive downloaded every mod I can find. I found a few new sounds here but still no rolling sound.

 

 

The problem I am having is its hard to tell when I am getting shot.

I think there is only one sound played when you get hit and it sounds like stress.

I am getting no other feedback, sparks,other sounds,visible damage.

So one second Im flying, the next I am dead.

This game has alot of promise.

Thanks for the replies.