Trainz SCARES me!! Software development specialists stake note, please

[JonMyrlennBailey]

I was using Topo tools to raise and lower ground in my engine yard near my engine turntable house. I have some V/Line streamlined locomotives parked inside there.


All of the sudden diesel engines started to rev up and roar like lions!

It made my heart beat like a hummingbird's wings.

I thought the engines would damage their valves or blow piston rings.

Then after out 10 seconds, they quieted down again.

This occurs everytime I use a Topo tool to raise or lower ground level near the engines if I tamp ground close enough.

This occurs in TS12.

What is happening technically speaking to make locos react to changes in the ground nearby?

I find this paranormal phenomenon as interesting as the devil.

Trainz is loaded with surprises.



Now that I am all out of hot air, the serious technical computer science question:

Why do enginesounds react to using a Topo tool near a diesel engine on the track?

The engines were in a roundhouse nearby. They are V/Line F7's.

There was JR track joinded at the roundhouse turntable at that time.

The engines (loco content) also rev up whenever the roundhouse is moved or rotated.

The engines are the distinct sounds of GM/EMD F7's.

I know them when I hear them.

This happens in TS12.

Please believe me when I say this happens.

I am not hearing things.

Computer science is relevant to everything Trainz does.

I doubt if this is a hardware issue.

It is all physics, electron current and advanced electronics.

Trainz is powered by precision electron flow, not coal or diesel fuel, nor the devil.

Computer program operation can be a mystery to human observers at times.

Content therein is all digital images and sounds.


Perhaps the Doctor of Trainzology can figure this out.

 

[pware]

It could be that the sound is part of the engine shed and not the locos. By moving the ground up you may have moved the sound attachment point (if there is such a thing) closer to your point of view (the surveyor camera) thus making it louder. I am never comfortable with supernatural explanations, I prefer rational scientific ones.

 

[trainman7616]

You make the dumbest threads ever that have absolutely no context or interest to anything anyone is doing. Please stop doing it.

 

[pware]

Trainman7616, you are being way too harsh.

As to "no context or interest", I do beg to differ. A few of his threads have taken me in new directions because he raised some points that, after reflection, were not as "dumb" as you might consider. Anyway, different people enjoy different aspect of this amazing game - who are you or I to decide what has "context or interest"?

 

[Vern]

Nevertheless, he does come across as a troll (maybe unintentionally) with many of his musings more suited to a blog or "Op-Ed" on his own website than on an open forum. Much of the points raised (like positioning streetlamps) can be answered by actually getting outdoors and taking a look, others like the position of the kingpin on a truck/trailer are probably of interest/relevance to 0.01% of the community. I'm just happy if I can get a lorry in my route(s) that looks right for the UK...

 

[pware]

Well, of course the remedy is to add him to your ignore list.

 

[amigacooke]

Well, of course the remedy is to add him to your ignore list.

That's no good, what excuse then is there to complain about someone you've never met and who's issues may be slightly more pressing than a missing kuid?

 

[nicky9499]

I'd think if entertainment software meant for ages 3 and up manages to scare you (and subsequently attribute them to the devil)... you may have some issues. Just saying.

 

[Bob_Ross]

I too feel that sometimes my content manager is a living breathing thing. I feed it a First Class Ticket to keep it satiated. If I don't , sometimes it eats one of my payware locos. So sad.

Seriously though, you are one wild and crazy guy for using the topo tool with locos on the boards! I'd advise taking the rolling stock OFF the table before you take the hacksaw to it.

 

[JCitron]

I've had sounds suddenly scare me when they start up from what seems like out of nowhere. The difference is I've never openly admitted that Trainz scared me like that!

 

[davesnow]

The sound that scares the crap out of me is when I open one of Jon's new threads and suddenly, and uncontrollably, I start SCREAMING! AUGHHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

[Vern]

Ignore never works because these types of thread are like bad road accidents. you can still see the guy has posted and no matter how much you say you won't, you still end up looking anyway!

 

[THOMAS2000]

WOW! That sounds awesome! :hehe::hehe::hehe:
I have a bad case of being in the middle of nowhere and suddenly a level crossing alarm bell will start going off and, on the rare occasion, even church bells, even when im 10 baseboards away from the object in question!
As for random posts- What are you talking about?? A forum is meant to be where you can sharethings from inside the hobby with people in the same interest. Right? Just trying to rasie a point, but people just trying to have a bit of fun seem to be downtrodden a lot here. Is there a better site to be doing that then?

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Some of you people need to lighten up and have a SENSE OF HUMOR.

The world seems void of that this day in age.

I was really not frightened (as if meeting a crazed gunman on the streets anyway) by a loco mysteriously revving up suddenly. The sound was harmless.

But technically speaking, and seriously, what can cause an Enginesound to react when the ground is being raised or lowered nearby
a diesel loco on the track while making an edit in Surveyor? There has to be a computer science explanation for this.
There is no magic semiconductor witch inside my PC. Are the gremlins really monkeying with my Trainz??

 

[SailorDan]

But technically speaking, and seriously, what can cause an Enginesound to react when the ground is being raised or lowered nearby a diesel loco on the track while making an edit in Surveyor?

So there was a serious question in there after all. Pity that it wasn't apparent, being wrapped up in nonsensical and irrelevant comments.

If you want to ask a question make it clear and obvious. If you want to try humour do a blog.

 

[pware]

Perhaps the altered ground was now acting as an acoustic lens that concentrated and focused the sounds towards your speakers - much more likely than a semiconductor witch, goblin or gremlin in the PC. Most likely as I proposed earlier, it has something to do with the way the sound asset is attached to the loco or was it the roundhouse?

But you are right about people taking these threads way too seriously. Unfortunately for some people, Trainz (and complaining about all aspects of Trainz) is their whole life. I am thankful that some posters, like yourself, can inject some "wackiness" and a different way of looking at Trainz into these forums.

Keep it up, don't let the "wowsers" (local Aussie slang - translates as "denoting a person who saps all the fun out of any given situation") get you down.

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Now that all that nonsense is past, could someone please offer me a serious answer.

 

[martinvk]

OK, let's give that a try. First, what engine(s), what engine shed? (KUIDS) Exact locations of everything and where the terrain was being raised. What was the radius and sensitivity of the topo tool? What else was on the same baseboard? Same map. Can you reproduce the effect on a singe baseboard with only the engine and shed installed? An image of the baseboard or even better an attached CDP would help the diagnosis.

 

[cascaderailroad]

There is a piece of hardware built right into you PC, that can lessen your scardiness of Trainz