Need some help with DSD XML Sound3

[Heffron 29]

Hi guys,

 

have been busy for 5 hours now with searching the Forums, Internet and so on.

What I am trying to do is to assign the sound of the Autodeployment of Armed Spoilers (in Boeing Aircraft that is) when the main gear touches the ground through the dsd_xml_gauge3 by Doug Dawson. I am trying to implement this in the CLS 747-200.

 

I created a folder called "Spoiler" in the FS9/Aircraft/CLS_B747-200F_PW/Panel folder which contains the dsd_xml_sound3.gau file, sound.ini, spoilersound.xml and autospoiler.wav.

 

the sound.ini looks as follows:

[Config]MaxSounds=11
LvarStop=dsd_stop_sounds
VolumeVar=dsd_xml_sound_volume
[LVars]Lvar00=spoilersound
[sounds]Sound00=./Aircraft/CLS_B747-200F_PW/Panel/spoiler/autospoiler.wav, 100

 

the spoilersound.xml looks as follows:

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0">
<Element>
<Select>
<Value>
(A:SIM ON GROUND,BOOL)
>andif{ (A:SPOILERS HANDLE POSITION,percent) 40 >  andif{ (A:SPOILERS ARMED,Bool) }
>if{ 1 (>L:spoilersound, number) }
>else{ 0 (>L:spoilersound, number) }
></Value>
></Select>
></Gauge>

 

and in the panel.cfg i added these entries in Window00 and in VirtualCockpit00:

 

gauge72=spoiler!spoilersound, 1,1,2,2
gauge73=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3, 2,2,5,5,./Aircraft/CLS_B747200F_PW/Panel/spoiler/sound.ini

 

What I am trying to accomplish is that the sound is played whenever the Aircraft touches the tarmac, the spoilers were armed before touchdown. If you guys want to know what sound i mean, it can be heard in this clip at 0:14 : [media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwCp68i7nRw[/media]

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Harm

[n4gix 4,947]

Normally, all gauges must either be in the sim's ..\Gauges folder, or the aircraft's ..\panel folder. Otherwise, the sim won't know where they are!

 

You can try adding the sub-folder path to the gauge entries like this:

 

gauge72=spoiler\spoiler!spoilersound, 1,1,2,2
gauge73=spoiler\dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3, 2,2,5,5,./Aircraft/CLS_B747200F_PW/Panel/spoiler/sound.ini

[Heffron 29]

Hi Bill,

 

i had some entries from an old post here on the forums. Seems that some of the slashes disappeared. I will try this out. How about the XML? Does it look alright? It's my first time working with XML.

 

Thanks!

[Heffron 29]

Adding the "spoiler\" to my gauge entries didn't work. Can it be the XML-code?

[ddawson 35]

Adding the "spoiler\" to my gauge entries didn't work. Can it be the XML-code?

 

The xml code is completely whacked. The forum software seems to have lost a number of carriage return characters.

Jan's code, in the other thread, looks quite reasonable to me:

 

(A:sim on ground,bool)  (A:Spoilers handle position,percent) 40 > and
if{ 
(L:spoiler,number) 0 ==
if{ 
1 (>L:spoiler,number) 1 (>L:spoiler sound,number) 
} 
}
els{ 
0 (>L:spoiler,number) 
}

[Heffron 29]

And I place this on the periods in the code?

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0"><Element><Select><Value>  .....     </Element></Select></Value>

 

What about the "spoiler sound" and "spoiler" parts, they need to be replaced by the WAV's name I want to be played? So that would be

(>L:autospoiler,number)

 

I will try this!

 

Thanks

[n4gix 4,947]

The xml code is completely whacked. The forum software seems to have lost a number of carriage return characters.

 

Doug, I've noticed that the new forum software's editor really isn't "XML or C code friendly" at all. It seems to work best if you copy the script, then click on the <> icon, then paste the script into the popup box...

 

...otherwise it will translate color information into raw BB Code, which totally fubars the end result.

 

And I place this on the periods in the code?

 

Noooo!

 

Try this:

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0">
 <Element>
<Select>
  <Value>
	(A:sim on ground,bool)  (A:Spoilers handle position,percent) 40 > and
	if{ (L:spoiler,number) 0 ==
	  if{ 1 (>L:spoiler,number) 1 (>L:spoiler sound,number)
	  }
	}
	els{ 0 (>L:spoiler,number) }
  </Value>
</Select>
 </Element>
</Gauge>

[Heffron 29]

So it should look like this? (The desired .wav-file is called "autospoiler.wav")

 

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0">
 <Element>
    <Select>
	  <Value>
		    (A:sim on ground,bool)  (A:Spoilers handle position,percent) 40 > and
		    if{ (L:spoiler,number) 0 ==
			  if{ 1 (>L:autospoiler,number) 1 (>L:autospoiler,number)
			  }
		    }
		    els{ 0 (>L:autospoiler,number) }
	  </Value>
    </Select>
 </Element>
</Gauge>

[tgibson 11]

The name of the wav file has nothing to do with the XML code - the file name is specified in the ini file. Change it back...

[Heffron 29]

So it should look like this? (The desired .wav-file is called "autospoiler.wav")

 

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0">
 <Element>
	<Select>
	  <Value>
			(A:sim on ground,bool)  (A:Spoilers handle position,percent) 40 > and
			if{ (L:spoiler,number) 0 ==
			  if{ 1 (>L:autospoiler,number) 1 (>L:autospoiler,number)
			  }
			}
			els{ 0 (>L:autospoiler,number) }
	  </Value>
	</Select>
 </Element>
</Gauge>

 

Ah ok, wow. Where did i read that then :P Thanks Tom, will give it a shot ;)

 

Thanks!

[Heffron 29]

Hi guys,

 

still no succes.

 

This is how things are now:

 

I have a folder called "spoiler" in FS9/Aircraft/CLS_B747_200F_PW/Panel/

The folder contains: autospoiler.wav, sound.ini, spoilersound.xml and dsd_xml_sound3.gau

 

sound.ini:

[Config]
MaxSounds=11
ErrorFlag=0
LvarStop=SoundStop
[sounds]
Sound00=./Aircraft/CLS_B747_200F_PW/Panel/spoiler/autospoiler.wav
[LVars]Lvar00=spoiler sound

 

spoilersound.xml:

<Gauge Name="spoilersound" Version="1.0">
 <Element>
    <Select>
	  <Value>
		    (A:sim on ground,bool)  (A:Spoilers handle position,percent) 40 > and
		    if{ (L:spoiler,number) 0 ==
			  if{ 1 (>L:spoiler,number) 1 (>L:spoiler sound,number)
			  }
		    }
		    els{ 0 (>L:spoiler,number) }
	  </Value>
    </Select>
 </Element>
</Gauge>

 

panel.cfg entries:

 

gauge72=spoiler!spoilersound, 0,0
gauge73=dsd_xml_sound3!dsd_xml_sound3, 2,2,5,5,./Aircraft/CLS_B747_200F_PW/Panel/Spoiler/sound.ini

 

Still, when on approach, Autobrake set, spoilers armed, the spoilers autodeploy on touchdown but no sound is played.

Could it be the CLS addon? As far as i know it pretty much still uses default FS parameters for spoilers and such.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Heffron 29]

Hey guys,

 

i'm out of town for a few days. Maybe you can look at my previous post and let me know what could be wrong. I will read it when i'm back.

 

Thanks in advance!

[phjvh 0]

Sound.cfg looks wrong to me.

L:var=spoiler sound and .wav=autospoiler.

Rename autospoiler.wav to spoiler sound.wav and see if it works now.

For me it does.