Sound Horn Trigger For American Locos?

[cookiebinks]

This may have been discussed before but...
I've been working on a layout based in the USA in TS2009 for quite some time now. I placed some sound horn triggers throughout the layout for the ai trains to sound their horns at crossings, stations, tunnels, etc, but when the trains run over them, they only sound the horn for a split second (I'm guessing this is because the trigger was made for European locos which play one sound file of a hi low tone rather than a horn loop). I was wondering if there are any horn triggers out there that can sound the horn for a given amount of time; maybe around 3 seconds? If not, is there a way I can make it so it sounds for that amount of time?
Thanks,
Erik

 

[tomurban]

This may have been discussed before but...
I've been working on a layout based in the USA in TS2009 for quite some time now. I placed some sound horn triggers throughout the layout for the ai trains to sound their horns at crossings, stations, tunnels, etc, but when the trains run over them, they only sound the horn for a split second (I'm guessing this is because the trigger was made for European locos which play one sound file of a hi low tone rather than a horn loop). I was wondering if there are any horn triggers out there that can sound the horn for a given amount of time; maybe around 3 seconds? If not, is there a way I can make it so it sounds for that amount of time?
Thanks,
Erik

Place 6-8 of them close together (so they are almost touching). They are also directional, so the point has to be facing the crossing, etc.

tomurban

 

[rweber95]

As you've found out, the horn sound trigger effectively pulses the H key function to play whatever is in the hornsound file. Some hornsound files play the 2 longs, a short and a long crossing sequence so that's one way. The second way would require a script to generate the desired horn sequence.

Bob Weber

 

[NJCurmudgeon]

I've been wondering about this too! I've tried the multiple horn trick tomurban suggests, but rewber 95 seems to be suggesting there are single kuids that will play an American-style horn sound? If so, can you recommend any? Thanks!

 

[bnsf50]

Have a look at this thread
http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=79513&highlight=horn