Gisela GI/1E (3Ds Max 9, Extension 1)

Here is a test video about automatic wipers.

Hier ist ein Test-Video über die automatische Scheibenwischer.

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Very great work. But why has the Gisela for older Versions no night-mode? You can make night-mode in older Versions too. Ich have maked a new sound-engine. I can send you the new sound-engine if you like it.

SetTextureSelfIllumination was not available in TRS2006, however, I might give a try on the night mesh method used on the Canadian Railways RDC stock.

I am delighted to see your Gisela sound engine and compare it to mine, because from my audio observation the part of the sound (perhaps the "humming" or "rising whistle" part) comes from the F79 stock if you listen carefully when it was refurbished. Oh, and the sound engine file is in fact categorized as an actual sound engine instead of being just a texture group.

Zitat von Coach

Very good.
I was thinking. For light rain/snow why dosent the wiper wipe, pause, wipe, pause
like on most trains and cars?
Please reply,
Alex

Sehr gut.
Ich dachte. Für den leichten Regen/Schnee, warum dosent der Scheibenwischer, Pause wischen, wischen Pause
wie auf den meisten Zügen und Autos?
Antworten Sie bitte,
Alex

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That has been included now.

What I did is add another boolean variable which tells the game whether the wipers are set to automatic or not. What I did is turn off the automatic mode for the light rain and snow and added this instead (it was actually two else-if commands to cover both state of the boolean value:

else if ((curwetter == 2 or curwetter == 5) and autowipe != 0) 
{
autowipe = 0; StopMeshAnimation("gi1e-wipe");
SetMeshAnimationState("gi1e-wipe", true); Sleep(1); 
SetMeshAnimationState("gi1e-wipe", false); Sleep(5);
}
else if ((curwetter == 2 or curwetter == 5) and autowipe == 0)
{
SetMeshAnimationState("gi1e-wipe", true); Sleep(1); 
SetMeshAnimationState("gi1e-wipe", false); Sleep(5);
}

What it is saying is that if the weather is light rain or snow (integer values 2 and 5), then the looping animation stops, and the manual animation is activated by means of SetMeshAnimationState, where the first wipe (first half of the total length of animation which is 2 seconds) is followed by a sleep period of 1s to allow the first wipe to run, followed by the second wipe, and then a four second delay.

Gruß Antje.

I am going to give the engine a total rebuild anyway: it seems there isn't enough steps in the sound engine to cover many driving styles.

Hi everyone, many apologies for being bogged down by the university work, but I have completed the new nine-part sound engine, and I will try tomorrow to demonstrate the engine on YouTube.

Sadly, despite my very best efforts, I have been unable to find an efficient alternative to the function "SetTextureSelfIllumination", without causing the destination sign to break down, and the night lights will be limited in older version. I have tried my best, and I will make that clear on the next release.

I apologise for the potential disappointment but easier ways to do night-lighting, without breaking the destination sign feature, have only been a recent feature.

Thank you for your understanding,
Antje

Zitat von Coach

Thanks OK Antje-It works for me in TS2009
It's just that enginesound-glad you are doing a new one : )
If other trains can light up at night like andi06's LT D Stock, why can't yours?
Alex

Dank, OK, arbeitet Es für mich in TS2009
Es ist gerade, dass enginesound-froh Sie einen neuen tun:)
Wenn andere Züge nachts wie andi06's Lager des LEUTNANTS D aufleuchten können, warum nicht Ihrig kann?
Alex

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It can light up at night but it just uses a different method which happens to have also been used by Modula City. I have tried using the SuperScript, but that broke the destination blinds mechanism too. Basically, If I had moved the destination mesh to anything other than default mesh, it would stop working since the MCQ script seems to only recognise the default mesh. I might try another method where the night mesh does not have the destination but the self-illumination is constant.