I did reply to a duplicate thread about this exact topic written in 2008 to keep things clean but for some reason it was deleted, so here's a brand new thread about an existing topic.

I want to have internal sounds on my wing views which, through EZDok, are external. I've tried duplicating the internal soundfiles and renaming them in external format, but this doesn't really work as there are more internal sounds than externals which means only a few of them play at once. I was wondering if anybody had achieved this and how.

Many thanks

Hi,

your best bet is probably to create your own sound.cfg file, see "Learning Center -> SDK -> Simulation Objects -> Sound configuration files". The system is relatively easy to understand, but nevertheless complex in operation and it will take a while to get it right. You need to build your own sound lists for the external sounds with those files from the internal sounds that you want to hear. Or you could theoretically just reference the internal sound lists from the external sound definitions, for example by removing all entries with viewpoint=2 (=external), copy&paste-ing those with viewpoint=1 (=internal) and then changing viewpoint=1 to viewpoint=2 in the new (copied) text.

The other option would be to use a wave editor program to combine multiple sound files into one loop (if that is what you require) - but to get this right is a lot more difficult than it sounds. 

Be aware though, that you will lose ALL external sounds if you do this, in every external view. If this approach works also depends on the aircraft model itself, some of the more sophisticaed ones have their own sound system and don't rely too much on the simulator logic.

Best regards

1 hour ago, Lorby_SI said:

Hi,

your best bet is probably to create your own sound.cfg file, see "Learning Center -> SDK -> Simulation Objects -> Sound configuration files". The system is relatively easy to understand, but nevertheless complex in operation and it will take a while to get it right. You need to build your own sound lists for the external sounds with those files from the internal sounds that you want to hear. Or you could theoretically just reference the internal sound lists from the external sound definitions, for example by removing all entries with viewpoint=2 (=external), copy&paste-ing those with viewpoint=1 (=internal) and then changing viewpoint=1 to viewpoint=2 in the new (copied) text.

The other option would be to use a wave editor program to combine multiple sound files into one loop (if that is what you require) - but to get this right is a lot more difficult than it sounds. 

Be aware though, that you will lose ALL external sounds if you do this, in every external view. If this approach works also depends on the aircraft model itself, some of the more sophisticaed ones have their own sound system and don't rely too much on the simulator logic.

Best regards

Many thanks Oliver, will try these options