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All's quiet on the Alphasim front?

Lower your landing gear in flight, you'll hear it lock. Also, since we can't feel the switches, I think it's a nice touch to hear them
 
Having flown in the backseat of an F-14D, i can tell you straight up that you can't hear anything but the engines and the creaking of the plane which, IMHO, is surprisingly loud as well as the breathing of the "other" guy...
However, that said, I agree with Michael that without the sound, for us in FS anyway, it would remove the "feel" of having switched...

As for what you want Menendez, we'll have to see.

kc.
 
krazycolin said:
Having flown in the backseat of an F-14D, i can tell you straight up that you can't hear anything but the engines and the creaking of the plane which, IMHO, is surprisingly loud as well as the breathing of the "other" guy...
However, that said, I agree with Michael that without the sound, for us in FS anyway, it would remove the "feel" of having switched...

As for what you want Menendez, we'll have to see.

kc.
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Re sound from inside. This reminds me of the MAAM B-25, which has no flap sound because, as they put it, you can't hear 'em when they move, or anything else except the deafening engine noise! So, in the sim, as in the real plane, you haves ta look at the gauge! I think that's cool. So, no more switch clicky noises! (Just kidding! :icon_lol:)
 
MenendezDiego said:
Lower your landing gear in flight, you'll hear it lock. Also, since we can't feel the switches, I think it's a nice touch to hear them
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Landing gear I'd agree with, its several tons of moving metal, it'll not be the locks you hear as they're quite small hydraulic rams, it'll be when the leg hits the end stops you'll hear I suspect.

As PRB also notes, flaps are silent in all but the smallest aircraft, probably anything multi engined would put the cockpit too far away from the flap motor to be effectively heard, same for some landing gear sounds on some models, quite un athentic, but if not added people cry foul. Its a sound often added in films too, seem to recall a cockpit scene in Memphis Belle where you could hear flap and gear motors going, quite un authentic but left viewers in no doubt as to what was going on :).

Regarding gauge click sound, I think its a one shot deal, ie you can only use one wav file, I dont think the VC coding will allow you to assign different sounds to different switches, not 100% sure on that though, the sound might be defined in the mdlXML compiler thingy whatsit codes.
 
tigisfat said:
Does anyone know what's going on with Alphasim these days? Are they ever going to release the promised C-17 updates and the islander? If I had purchased the C-17, I'd be REALLY angry right now.


It does appear that the C-17 paintkit was released today.
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I bought the Albatross HU16B when it came out. I am a huge fan of the RW Grumman Albatross. I was really disappointed in the Alphasim plane. It looks great but it has no less than eight skin textures so the performance is miserable. The flight model was simply not right. Had it not been for some sharp people here on SOH that worked out mods to the water handling, the plane would have been unusable. The VC looks good but only a few of the controls work. I paid almost $40 for the plane and I felt really burned. I will never buy another Alphasim plane, even if they put them on sale for $1. They're not worth the aggravation. I don't think Alphasim is an honest outfit. They're selling merchandise that is presented as complete and it really isn't.
 
michael davies said:
Regarding gauge click sound, I think its a one shot deal, ie you can only use one wav file, I dont think the VC coding will allow you to assign different sounds to different switches, not 100% sure on that though, the sound might be defined in the mdlXML compiler thingy whatsit codes.
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VRS Hornet did it
 
Smokey Joe said:
I bought the Albatross HU16B when it came out. I am a huge fan of the RW Grumman Albatross. I was really disappointed in the Alphasim plane. It looks great but it has no less than eight skin textures so the performance is miserable. The flight model was simply not right. Had it not been for some sharp people here on SOH that worked out mods to the water handling, the plane would have been unusable. The VC looks good but only a few of the controls work. I paid almost $40 for the plane and I felt really burned. I will never buy another Alphasim plane, even if they put them on sale for $1. They're not worth the aggravation. I don't think Alphasim is an honest outfit. They're selling merchandise that is presented as complete and it really isn't.
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Price viz content has been gone over in these forums a lot and seems to be the main issue for many, if the model was priced at say $25 would you be less displeased ?, not sure the eight textures are the issue with performance, there are other models with as many textures that are ok, I had similar problems with the Blackhawk, never could get it to run smooth, kinda made making the FDE quite difficult, in the end I think it was a gauge or something that was causing problems my end, however many others had no problems at all !.

Glad the water fix worked for you, I sent it to them as an update but I dont think it ever got added, cant lay claim to fame for the reverse prop fix, dont think that got added either.
 
Smokey Joe said:
I was really disappointed in the Alphasim plane.
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I thought it was a beautiful work of art........except for the garbage VC. (no offense if anyone here worked it) It ruined the aircraft to me. The sounds were incredible, the outside great...but man; that VC.....

:blind:
 
No, I meant you can hear the landing gear handle while in flight, nothing to do with Wav files. And I don't want to hear anymore about Wav files. VRS has multiple sounds for multiple switches/buttons. It CAN be done
 
MenendezDiego said:
No, I meant you can hear the landing gear handle while in flight, nothing to do with Wav files. And I don't want to hear anymore about Wav files. VRS has multiple sounds for multiple switches/buttons. It CAN be done
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Sorry I was only trying to make polite conversation, jeez now I know why I retired :isadizzy: probably best if we walk around each other in future ehh ?.
 
michael davies said:
.........I retired............
:pop4::isadizzy:What?! No wonder flight simming has gone to hell. And here I've been, blaming the changing community on highly priced mediocre products and blissfuly ignorant attitudes.

If I win the lotto, I'm going to offer you a price you can't refuse to un-retire and run the world's largest FS development MEGA-conglomerate. We'll subsidize a number of old Alphasim heads plus Milviz and TSS. Then we'll saturate the market for 2 straight years with rediculously high-fidelity products every month......Then we'll buy up FS11 and finish it. Every scene will have 1.4 million objects drawn and it'll get 90FPS at 7,000 by 6,000 resolution on pentium IIs!! (cackles madly):isadizzy:

:salute::gameon:
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MenendezDiego said:
I'm sorry Mike, it's been a bad day here. It wasn't personal, please forgive me
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Its ok, I think we are talking about the same thing but in a different language, your talking about sounds and clicks, I'm talking about wavs, there actually exactly the same thing, you hear sounds, I see wav's, the wav is the sound you hear when you click the switch. unless your a modeller you probably wouldn't know what a wav file was, so thats my mistake for assuming you did. In short, when you mouse a switch it tells the sim to do two things, play the animation to move the switch and play the sound associated with that switch ie the wav file. You may already know all this, my apologies if you do.

I didn't know you could get different sounds for different switches so I have learn't something new as well thanks to you input previously.

So, no problems here have a :icon29: and relax.

Kindest

Michael
 
Thanks again Mike for putting me in my place lol.

I'm all better now, after a few :icon29: of course, well I wouldnt say better...more like....:isadizzy:....oh yea! Wish I was at my place where my FSX Rig is (been at my parents house over the holidays...I'm having withdrawls!)

When I get back, hopefully the VStudios Dauntless will be out, I'll drink a few :icon29: and have a grand old time!

Diego
 
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