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BVE => General BVE/OpenBVE => Topic started by: TJay1724 on April 24, 2011, 02:24:07 pm
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What's up people? I've noticed that on all the routes here, the departure annoucements are being overrun by the sound of the doors closing. The reason for that is BVE as well as openBVE plays the departure sound 5 secs before the doors close. Now that is not realistic as in real life, the conductor will not close doors until the annoucement is fully completed and all passengers have boarded. (Except in NYC. We like to close doors on people ;D ) Now for all new tech trains, R142, R143, R160 and so on, the departure annoucements are played as soon as the doors are OPENED. Now this CAN be done in both BVE 2/4 and openBVE for automated annoucements and manual annoucements. Here's how:
In both BVE 2/4 and openBVE, you have the .annouce command. This can be used anywhere along the route and we mainly use it to annouce the name of the station as we are arriving into the station. In the station namespace, there are 2 places for sound: arrival sound and departure sound. All of the routes here place their departure sounds in the departure namspace thus the overlapping, but if you place the departure sound in the ARRIVAL namespace, you will get that realistic automated annoucement as soon as the doors open. This is how its works:
Track.Sta Name; ArrivalTime; DepartureTime; PassAlarm; Doors; ForcedRedSignal; System; ARRIVALSOUND; StopDuration; PassengerRatio; DepartureSound; TimetableIndex
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Sometimes it also depends on the train. Some of the trains developed have automatic door closing. Others have semi automatic and then there are ones with manual.
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The problem is that RW does not support the ArrivalSound variable, therefore those who code in RW are pretty much forced to do it via the door-close method and just pray it plays right, which 99% of the time it doesn't..it's been a long long problem lol but not much we can do about it except for code in csv (this is the main reason why I began to switch to csv coding)
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It's cool. I just thought I'd mention it for future reference. I switched to csv because it allows more features than rw and because at the time there was only BVE 2/4 and BVE 4 only supports csv.
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I'm resuming work on the L tonight. Thanks for this. What I'll do is, play the announcement in the ARRIVAL sound as in: This is a Manhattan - Bound L Train..., and in the departure, I'll put the Stand Clear of the closing doors please. Do you think that'd work?
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It should work Jose. If you have the stand clear of the closing doors please sound, could you send that to me?
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I'll go ahead and get it for you
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http://www.4shared.com/audio/auhyZWPf/Stand_Clear_of_the_Doors.html (http://www.4shared.com/audio/auhyZWPf/Stand_Clear_of_the_Doors.html)
You're welcome.
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Would this work for .RW as well?
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Would this work for .RW as well?
Nope.
By the way Jose, I've noticed that on NTT routes, the annoucement plays too late. In real life, the train plays the announcements the second the train doors are finished opening (On all B division routes), and on IRT routes, they start playing while the doors are opening.
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That's the point TJay was making. Instead of playing as the doors would close, using the code provided, they would play as the doors open.
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where can you find the .announce command so you can change it to play the annoucnement as soon as the doors OPEN? :-\
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Would this work for .RW as well?
Nope.
By the way Jose, I've noticed that on NTT routes, the annoucement plays too late. In real life, the train plays the announcements the second the train doors are finished opening (On all B division routes), and on IRT routes, they start playing while the doors are opening.
Exactly, that's what I want to experiment with. However, the announcement identifying the train and what not plays when the doors open, but the Stand Clear one plays before they close.
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Lance thanks for the link, Queens Blvd Express, this will not work on rw files and yes I put all this together in a demo file which as soon as cam studio stops annoying me, I will post a vid for.
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Lance thanks for the link, Queens Blvd Express, this will not work on rw files and yes I put all this together in a demo file which as soon as cam studio stops annoying me, I will post a vid for.
You should Try HyperCam or FRAPS, CamStudio is too 'raw' in my opinion and isn't as flexible