rec.autos.simulators

I have a problem with the sound on the GT Mod
When changing down I guess it should be the backfire sound that plays,
instead it sounds like the wheel hammer sound is playing.
Any idea where I went wrong?

TIA
Craig

Hi Craig.
I had the same error, and posted it here, but no answers, so I tried to
solve it myself. Well, I got it a little better, but it was a huge job. In
most of the cars, there is a file called GT_external_backfiring.wav. AFAIK
this file is the same in any of the cars. I started Windows soundrecorder,
and turned the volume down for this particular file, saved it, and tried it.
Not so hard. But ... as I test the different cars, I found that the volume
settings for this file should NOT be the same for the different engine sound
to sound right. So on with the testing, one car at the time.

It takes time, but it is worth it. Now I can hear the backfiring, but
without this one sound is so loud that other sounds vanish.

--

Mvh
Sven

Thanks Sven,

As it happens I'm pretty good at sound editing so I'll give it a go.
I'll post the results later

Craig

  perhaps you two could take the fruits of your testing and present it to
the mod-maker.  Might get a credit....
dave henrie

Sven & Dave,

So far I've found that a reduction of 5dB in the GT_external_backfiring.wav
is about right for the Viper.
So I have made a set of files called GT_external_backfiring-xxdB.wav and
external_backfiring-xxdB.wav
GT_external being the new GT sound and the external_backfiring being the
original F1 sounds with the xx indicating the amount of attenuation I
applied.

To use them, If you are driving the 550 for example open the file
550sounds.sfx in the SeasonGT\Vehicles\  folder into notepad
and edit the line

VS_INSIDE_BACKFIRE=GT_external_backfiring-5dB.wav or
VS_INSIDE_BACKFIRE=external_backfiring-5dB.wav          if you prefer the F1
backfire.

Restart the game and see what it sounds like, If it's too loud increase the
number of the file in the .sfx file or vice versa.

After that repeat with the other cars you want to drive
the sfx files are
SeasonGT\Vehicles\360Sounds.sfx
SeasonGT\Vehicles\550Sounds.sfx
SeasonGT\Vehicles\996Sounds.sfx
SeasonGT\Vehicles\GTSounds.sfx
SeasonGT\Vehicles\ListerSounds.sfx
SeasonGT\Vehicles\ViperSounds.sfx

Maybe we can come to some concensus and post the results here

I've put the zipped files at

http://www.btinternet.com/~the.solicitors/misc/gtsounds.zip

they need unzipping to F12001\Sounds\Car

Craig

Hi Craig,

I cut the sound, only using the second half, and reduced the volume to 50%.
That at least for me sounds better.

There's also an issue with momentary flanging where two sounds overlay each
other after shifting up (at least I think that's what causes it, I know
nothing about F1 2001 sound generation). This prob could probably be solved
by fine-tuning the pitch of the individual wav files to match perfectly. But
I'm too lazy to do that :-)

Achim