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"Sound-file ungueltig"?

Not sure what I did exactly, since I had tried many alternatives, but now it is working. The only thing I could pinpoint - and this is just a guess - is that for some reason, the CFG file (which accompanied the DB engine sound folder) had been removed. When I put it back in the engine sound folder, the alias worked properly.

I tried this with only one engine and one aircraft. I will see if it works with different engine sound files and different aircraft.
 
Instead of spelling out your entire folder address, just use the old DOSS shortcut: \..\..\Engines\Folder name\Specific Engine Name

Of course that is assuming that your engine file is in the Microsoft Games folder.

If you only have one installation of CFS 2, then just put your Engines with its sub engine folders in your aircraft folder and then address your alias address line like this:

Alias=Engines\Piston Engines\DB 605
 
Jadfleiger: Thanks for your reply.

I have two installs - one for the Pacific Theater - "Combat Flight Simulator 2 (PT0)" - and for the Eastern Front - "Combat Flight Simulator 2 (EF)". To simplify things, when I posted, I didn't included the "(EF)" in my description, but it is there and the alias specified that.

I am not sure what you mean when you say the "DOS shortcut" or what you mean by "\..\..\Engines\Folder name\Specific Engine Name." My path (except for mentioning the "(EF)" is exactly as it appears. The engine sounds are in the CFS2 main folder. Is this correct pathway? It seems to work now, but as I said, I just experimented with one engine and one aircraft. I'd like to do this for multiple engines/aircraft and both installs to save space and effort.
 
WSM,

If you want to alias both of your installations to the same central sound folder in the Microsoft Games folder (outside of your CFS 2 foldes), just use the above shortcut to get both installations reading from the same central folder.

Using your DB 601 address it looks like this:

[fltsim]
alias=\..\..\ENGINES\DB 601

If your method of spelling out the full address works then that is probably your best option. For some reason I never could get that method to work for me, but the above method has worked in several different computers with dozens of different installations of CFS 2 reading from 20 or so different engine folders in the central engine folder.
 
Do you literally type "\..\..\ENGINES\DB 601"? Maybe that's the part I don't understand. I thought the elipses represented a shorthand for "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games. . .", etc.
 
Sound aliasing system

achim27619 said:
Yes, Fibber, I am very interested, because I always wanted to do the same but I shrunk from the amount of work.

Cheers

Achim
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This systematic organization of the engine sounds saves great amounts of space.

But remember that for that "standard" sound.cfg aliasing system to work you will need a sound.cfg for each type of engine (and a different one for planes with the same engine but with one, two, three or four engines) and the same number of sound folder containing the engine sounds located in the exact path pointed in the sound.cfg.

The sound.cfg file dropped into your airplane sound folder will then point to a folder containing the sounds, and won´t be able to find it if it´s not located where it´s stated in that particular sound.cfg.

I´ll give an example somewhat similar to the one I have in my installs.

For a Spitfire XIV you drop a sound.cfg file in that airplane sound folder stating that:
[fltsim]
alias=C\Program Files\Microsoft Games\CFS2 Shared Files\Engine Sounds/Griffon

And then you need a sound folder (that I call Rolls Royce Griffon but you can call whatever you like as long as you can easily find again) in that exact location containing, in this case, the Rolls Royce Griffon sounds. If it´s not there your airplane won´t appear when you start CFS2.

A zip containing both cfg and sound folders for each engine configuration could be easily done but the upload would be very big. Say 60 engines/engine configuration folders at 8 MB each= 480 MB. It could be separated by engine´s country of origin: Germany/England/USA/France/Japan. It would require OBIOS, Lawdog and others permission.

My system would be only for spanish language OS as it says C:\Archivos de programa\Microsoft Games.... instead of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games.... But with further work it could be done. It´s just a matter of time.

Cheers, Discus:salute:
 
This is what I have in the "sound" folder.This is for a Allision\V-1710\twin engine sound. I have all the engine sounds available set up by mfg type\ single\twin\triple\quad.
This setup works great for me but it is a work in progress as I am always doing additions or subtractions as I find better sounds.
Sound folder .cfg reads

[fltsim]
alias=C:\Program files\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 2\Engine Sounds\Allison\V-1710\Twin\sound

Wmsm : It looks to me that if you add the word "sound" (w/o parenthesis) your line should work
 
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