Monday 13 February 2017

takeoff sounds reworked

Groundroll and takeoff sounds have been reworked in my Sim. The goal was to get more realistic sounds and better immersion. 

Engines: The engine noise degrades when the speed increases. When applying takeoff power at zero speed you hear them loudest. Also you feel thrustvibrations through the buttkickers. The engine sound gradually decreases when the plane is accelerating. The little tool “fs-set-volume” makes this possible (http://forum.simflight.com/topic/81553-fs-set-volume/). This tiny software adjusts the volume of your default sound device, depending on N1 and Machno and can run on any computer in the network with wideclient. From the the rear speaker output of the main FS computer I took the sound via a Y-cable to the line in of another external pc. There it goes to the default output of the external pc (the one regulated by fs-set volume) and then to 2 additional rear speakers. This way I avoided that FS-volume regulates all 3 channels of the main FS-Audio output, they work independently as before. Sounds a bit complicated, but it´s not, and costs not much despite the cable and the 2 speakers.

When speed rises, a nosewheel sound kicks in, also additional groundroll sounds. The vibration increases with the speed – you might see the cam shaking a bit. When the nosewheel leaves the ground, the nosewheel groundroll sound disappears and a nosewheel spinning sound comes up. Then you here the gear up sounds and also a geardoor lock knock comes through the buttkicker.
After landing there is an additional reverser vibration sound going through the buttkickers and the nosewheel rolling sound can be heard again.
The sounds are all triggered by several lua scripts and distributed via Prosim audio moduls. Some of the sounds are captured from real flight youtube videos. 


The LUA scripts can be downloaded here. They work in my sim, but there is no guarantee that they do in others. I had some conflicts with ProsimUtils. By moving the Luas to another computer, this was solved. Some write offsets probably have to be changed in your setup. I am not an experienced programmer, so there might be better ways for programming these scripts.


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