Missing Track Joints Sounds

[OTTODAD]

While lying in bed and motivating myself to get up in the morning, I always think about things.

This morning I thought about the track joints sounds I can hear in the #5 passenger view but nowhere else in ORTS.

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/o...s-view-wag.wmv

So I moved it into this ICE-3 leading *.ENG file and after using it's Shape.S and adjusting it's camera movements now have a forward view from the lead engine car with track joints sounds but not in an outside camera view.

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/o...s-view-eng.wmv

So somebody in the ORTS team knows how to make these SMS files work in ORTS.

One problem with that, ORTS reads only the first #5 Passenger view it can find in a consist which has them in it's *.WAG files, but the F9 Driveraid not working like it does in MSTS no individual wagon can be selected to show it's Passenger view !

Then I had another thought. The track joints sounds being audible in the Passenger view, replace the contents of the ICEeng, cab and out.sms files with the contents from my distance moded RailWaves In and OUT*.sms and I can hear track joints sound inside the cab and out again !

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/o...ab-and-out.wmv

Mind you I lost the horn and other in-cab sounds but they could be added again to the moded by me ICE*.sms and merged with the track joints sounds parameters.

This could be one way of coding all SMS files in locations which ORTS is aware of and can read their contents with it's source code like it does in the ICE's #5 Passenger view's ICE3Pas.sms ?

O t t o

[twpol]

One problem with that, ORTS reads only the first #5 Passenger view it can find in a consist which has them in it's *.WAG files, but the F9 Driveraid not working like it does in MSTS no individual wagon can be selected to show it's Passenger view !

You can switch between passenger views in different cars in the same way as other cameras - Alt+Page Up/Down (and Alt-Home/End for first and last).

[OTTODAD]

Thanks, James, could not see that in my ORTS key functions print-out !

Have since added the horn sounds to my revised with track joints sounds ICEcab.sms:

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/o...racks-horn.wmv

O t t o

[csantucci]

Nice workaround Otto, but I'm sure that like myself you would prefer that the ORTS team implement recognition of sound regions like MSTS does! This would allow for track sound varying accordingly to track positions and type (welded, unwelded, on metal bridge, in tunnels, on switches, on sharp bends and so on) that adds nice sound effects.
I also thank James, as neither myself knew about the possibility of switching between passenger views in ORTS.

Carlo