Changing Engine and Horn/Whistle sounds: A Guide.
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 11:46 pm
I'm sure many users sometimes want a locomotive to use a different horn or engine sounds, for whatever reason. I figured this out because I wanted the horn the AMD-103 had in RT2 instead of the weird one it originally had in RT3.
Well, I've figured out how to do it, through trial and error, and comparing engine sounds between locomotives. And yes, this does work. My AMD-103 has a much nicer sounding horn now, like it should've been.
It goes without saying: Please back up your .lco files before trying this.
1. Open your favorite Hex Editor of choice, mine being HxD.
2. Make sure it is set to 16 Columun, Hex offeset base, with Windows ANSI encoding.
3. On the last row, in the 03 offset, defines the engine sound used. The 07 offset defines the whistle/horn sound used. Change these values to what you want your locomotive to sound like.
4. Save changes, load game, and enjoy.
I'll attach a list of which values correspond to which sounds later. I'll be matching each value with the wav file that is contained in the RT3SoundTrains.PK4 file.
There are 9 engine sounds total to be chosen, 3 Diesel, 4 steam, 2 electric.
There are 10 whistle/horns, 2 electric, 4 diesel, 2 big steam (Low-pitched whistles), and 2 little steam(High-pitched whistles).
The game does not care about what locomotive type it is, it just calls the sound files listed. So you can give a diesel or electric a whistle, and a steamer a horn.
Well, I've figured out how to do it, through trial and error, and comparing engine sounds between locomotives. And yes, this does work. My AMD-103 has a much nicer sounding horn now, like it should've been.
It goes without saying: Please back up your .lco files before trying this.
1. Open your favorite Hex Editor of choice, mine being HxD.
2. Make sure it is set to 16 Columun, Hex offeset base, with Windows ANSI encoding.
3. On the last row, in the 03 offset, defines the engine sound used. The 07 offset defines the whistle/horn sound used. Change these values to what you want your locomotive to sound like.
4. Save changes, load game, and enjoy.
I'll attach a list of which values correspond to which sounds later. I'll be matching each value with the wav file that is contained in the RT3SoundTrains.PK4 file.
There are 9 engine sounds total to be chosen, 3 Diesel, 4 steam, 2 electric.
There are 10 whistle/horns, 2 electric, 4 diesel, 2 big steam (Low-pitched whistles), and 2 little steam(High-pitched whistles).
The game does not care about what locomotive type it is, it just calls the sound files listed. So you can give a diesel or electric a whistle, and a steamer a horn.