Aliasing sounds from the SD40 to the CN SD40 Widenose

[SoloTwo]

Well I recently went on a spending binge and among a couple hundred dollars of other random crap I now own the great Fort Kent route and seeing as its MEANT to be driven with a CN SD40 I went a head and bought the CN wide nose on steam. Sadly its still using the very old and terrible SD40 sounds from railworks. So basically what I'm trying to do is figure out a way to use the new sounds on the old wide nose so I don't drive my self nuts. I've peaked around with RW tools but can't quite figure out the best way of doing things so any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

I did buy Eyein12's SD60F's but I hadn't realized the cowl design until after I bought it and it really doesn't work all too well when it comes to switching work.

[Chacal]

To make the CN Wide-Nose use the default SD40-2 sounds, you just need to copy 3 files to the SD40WnPack01 folders, changing their names as you do.

Here's a script that will do that for you. Just change the path in the first SET line to match your own installation.

Code: Select all

REM Set rw to whatever your railworks path is.
SET rw=C:\Steam\steamapps\common\railworks
SET src=%rw%\Assets\Kuju\RailSimulatorUS\Audio\RailVehicles\Diesel\SD40

COPY /Y %src%\"Class SD40.proxyxml" %rw%\Assets\RSC\SD40WnPack01\Audio\RailVehicles\Diesel\SD40\SD40.proxyxml
COPY /Y %src%\Cab\"Class SD40 Cab.proxyxml" %rw%\Assets\RSC\SD40WnPack01\Audio\RailVehicles\Diesel\SD40\Cab\"SD40 Cab.proxyxml"
COPY /Y %src%\Cab\"Class SD40 Horn.proxyxml" %rw%\Assets\RSC\SD40WnPack01\Audio\RailVehicles\Diesel\SD40\Cab\"SD40 Horn.proxyxml"


By the way, you should try simer4's SD40-2 sound pack. Incredibly good sounds.
Also, try roinuj's weathered repaints for the wide-nose.
All from the RWA file library.

[SoloTwo]

Thanks I ton. No idea what to do with the script but managed to figure it out. Yeah, I wasn't even close to figuring it out...

[Chacal]

Sorry I forgot to add instructions. For future reference, this is a DOS batch file. To use it:
1- copy/paste it into notepad,
2- edit the text to suit your needs,
3- save it with a .bat extension, such as sd40.bat,
4- anytime you need to copy the files, just double-click on this file and it will do the job,

The reason for saving this batch file is that you need to copy the files again if you verify the cache files in the Steam client, or if Steam updates the widenose pack files.