Constant stoking sound fix?

[Noisemaker]

I was scratching my head too for the longest time with all that extra parenthesis stuff too. BUT, I think I intrigued some of the Open Rail folks to carry on from where Kuju left off, and allow for variations in the SMS for different views. So a set for 'cab view' and a sub set for 'passenger view' in the one SMS. Would be nice, but OR folks have put audio low on their priority list.

[Otterbear]

I was scratching my head too for the longest time with all that extra parenthesis stuff too. BUT, I think I intrigued some of the Open Rail folks to carry on from where Kuju left off, and allow for variations in the SMS for different views. So a set for 'cab view' and a sub set for 'passenger view' in the one SMS. Would be nice, but OR folks have put audio low on their priority list.

Thats a shame, hopefully they will get to it soon.
Are they still working on it? I'm assuming bin has been shelved?

On a different note.
I have an .sms file the refuses to be used.
I made some changes. Changed the files called for, for certain sounds. Everything worked fine. I replaced the default whistle with a new one..and now the sim refuses to use that .sms. (It sounds like it is using the original .sms file but that's impossible because the old one is gone.) I'm still in testing so I had removed most of the in-cab sounds, (making sure to keep the stream numbers correct, IE:changed number of streams, when I add or delete a stream.) What I HAD was the quiet sound of rain falling, and that was pretty much it. I change the whistle file, and now I'm back to the original .sms sounds. ??? (I'm at a loss here.) Any ideas. I could zip the files you need for testing if you want.

[Noisemaker]

Best to compare with another working SMS of the same type of engine style. Putting the two side by side on the screen and comparing the parenthesis may reveal a missing bracket or quotation mark or something? A small thing like those can bugger a SMS pretty good. Happens to the best of us.

[Otterbear]

Best to compare with another working SMS of the same type of engine style. Putting the two side by side on the screen and comparing the parenthesis may reveal a missing bracket or quotation mark or something? A small thing like those can bugger a SMS pretty good. Happens to the best of us.

Yea, this .sms is from the All new Pere Marquette 1225 model update By Brandon Smith - Original Berkishire by NALW,(pm1225.zip in the library) AND IT IS A COMPLETE "CLUSTER - *%*$@#_@!"
It looks all scrambled.
I may have to use a different cab.sms file without all the fancy sound adjustments, which I believe may not actually hurt anything.



How it worked in the first place is beyond me.

The whistle and some of the shoveling sounds and such needed some work. Also a horrible "hiss" added for RW sound, did not do anything other than drown out the sounds of the injectors and such. I could go with a completely different .sms file but MAY lose the good sounding ambient engine noise.

EDIT:
I just found a cab.sms that closely approximates what I want. So far I've gotten all the sounds to function properly, (took some work though), but I'm happy.

[ragtimer]

There is a tutorial on the MSTS sms files at the Steam4Me site.Use "Context" instead of wordpad or notepad to edit files.Makes life a lot easier.

[Noisemaker]

Indeed Ottobear, Brandon Smith is like the Sir George Martin or Phil Spector of train sounds IMHO. Brilliant, but near impossible to decipher. Derek Miller is my Roy Thomas Baker and/or Mutt Lange when it comes to steam sound production, and even then I'm not sure what he does or how he does it. But as long as it gives me a little something to hopefully impress Shania Twain with.

Okay, so I'm no Brad Pitt.