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Locomotive Whistle Sound Fix

A simple quick fix for anyone who has an issue where all train whistles default to an identical sound file, this fix should ensure that most trains play the correct whistle sound that the developers intended.

There are a couple of exceptions such as the Class A4 and Flying Scotsman locomotives, these engines used the same boring whistle sound, so to ensure that each locomotive has a distinctive sound, I have changed these. There are many unused whistle sounds in the game!

UPDATE 1.1: Added the modified locomotive model files. These should resolve the intermittent problem where a locomotive was reverting back to the default whistle sound.

UPDATE 1.2: Fixed an issue where certain locomotives were not targeting the correct sound set.

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INSTRUCTIONS - for if you'd like to customise the soundsets to your own preference


You can do all of this with notepad or any other text editor:

Step order:

1: Sample the default horn/whistle sounds in \res\audio\effects\vehicle\train_steam_old or \res\audio\effects\vehicle\train_steam_new and pick the one you want for the train you're about to modify (feel free to add your own if you're adventurous)

2: In the \res\config\sound_set folder - open either train_steam_old.lua or train_steam_modern.lua depending on what general sounds you want in addition

3: In the events section, edit the names value in this line to the filepath of the audio file you want to use for the whistle in the soundset you're about to create: horn = { names = { "vehicle/train_steam_old/horn.wav" }, refDist = 50.0 },

4: Save the modified .lua file as any name you want in that folder, you will need the name of your new .lua soundset for the train model you want to assign to it

5: In the filepath: \res\models\model\vehicle\train - Open the train .mdl folder that you want to modify

6: In the Configs section under the metadata, towards the bottom of the text, change the soundSet name value to the exact name of your .lua soundset file, and the horn to the same filepath that you defined in the soundset, like my example, as I created a borsig.lua soundset file for my mod:

soundSet = { name = "borsig", horn = "vehicle/train_steam_old/steam_horn_6.wav" }

7: Save that .mdl file

8. Repeat the above steps for each model of train you want to create a custom soundset for, I'd imagine it works for all the audio settings if you want to change those, but only the whistles really mattered to me.