Sound and weather adventure for microsoft flight simulator
Last Update 19.01.2002
Dynamic sound and weather adventure 2.6
* Missing a flight attendant at your plane that is taking care about your passengers?
* Missing a captain who is communicating with tower and passenger about the flight status?
* Missing dynamic weather generation that constantly change with full control while you in flight?
YOU GET EVERYTHING HERE !
WHAT IS NEW IN THIS VERSION?
* Supports more sounds that comes with FS2002
* Optimized the dynamic cloud layer generation that gives the scenery a
completely new look and feel.
* Cloud layers comes now with turbulence that if strong will detected by the adventure
and activate the fasten seat belt sound.
* If thunderstorm are coming, they are first small then starting to grow until
the reach the maximum and then disappear slowly.
* New defined control keys for the adventure to activate thunderstorms manually,
disable or enable turbulence and more.
* Increase performance of the adventure.
The basic dynamic sound and weather Adventure 2.6 includes:
* The DSWadv.adv for FS98/FS2000/FS2002
* readme.txt file
* basic sounds:
- three stewardess-voices for preparing landing
- signal for fasten seat belt
- hash sound
You can download the other following sound packages at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noah/flight/index.html
Soundpack 1 for adventure (only English) includes:
* two stewardess-voice for instructions after landing
* welcome-voice from the tower after landing
* four terminal-sounds from the airport
* fasten seat belt from the stewardess, if there are turbulence
Soundpack 2 (now German and English voices) includes:
* two sounds passengers entering the plane (German only)
* two sounds captains voice, asking tower for departing
* captains voice, to passengers, that plane is starting
* three sounds at the runaway: clear for take of from the tower
Soundpack 3 (now German and English voices) includes:
* information about the flight from the captain to the passengers after take off
* passengers leaving the plane, after landing, when the plane is standing
* three sounds, stewardess welcome the passengers and instructions for the emergency on the way to the runaway
Soundpack 4 (only German voices)include:
* If you are going down too fast, captain voice, that there is something wrong with the plane
* If you are still going down too fast, stewardess voice with instruction for crash landing
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SOUND AND WEATHER ADVENTURE
Weather and Sound adventure Version 2.5 for FS98 / FS 2000 / FS 2002
By Hendrik Kupfernagel
noah@cs.tu-berlin.de,
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noah/flight/index.html
Compiled with APLC. Processed through the aafconv98.exe conversion program.
Contents:
1. DESCRIPTION
2. THE INSTALLATION
3. HOW TO START
4. HOW WORKS THE WEATHER
5. HOW TO CONTROL THE ADVENTURE
6. WHAT COMES IN THE FUTURE
7. THE HISTORY
1. DESCRIPTION OF THE ADVENTURE
This is a shareware version that terminate the adventure after a while.
If you are interested to get the non terminating version for only $7
please sent an e-mail to noah@cs.tu-berlin.de for billing advise.
This adventure is primary developed to work with FS2002. There might me
conflict with key occupation in later FS versions. If you find any problem
that this adventure cause with FS2002 please report to
noah@cs.tu-berlin.de.
This adventure supports two new functionalities that are not included in
the current version of flight simulator.
A. This adventure is changing the weather dynamically while you are flying
or just staying at the airport. It calculate the weather depending from
the season, the time and also the area you are. For example there are some
nice weather area implemented that getting activated if you are flying
over special locations. In the morning the chance of fog is higher than
during the day.
B .The adventure also support a very new kind of sounds: Stewardess voice
to advise the passengers to fasten seat belt, when you prepare for landing or take off.
There is also fasten seat belt sound, when the plane gets into turbulence.
These sounds are included in this basic pack of the adventure. But there
are a lot more sounds, like captains voice to welcome the passengers after
take off, a stewardess explaining what to do in emergency, while the plane
is driving to the runaway, new messages from the tower and much more.
You can download these additional sound packages for free from
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~noah/flight/index.html
2. THE INSTALLATION
FS98:Copy the DSWadv23.adv file into your ADV-directory of your
flight simulator installation.
Copy all sounds files that are ending with (*.wav) into the
directory where all other sounds files from your adventure are
located.
FS2002:Copy the DSWAdv26.adv file into your FS2002/flights/fs2kadv/
directory.
Copy all sound files (*.wav) into the FS2002/adv/wav directory.
To start the adventure start the flight simulator, select
flights/select a flight and choose the flight simulator 2000
adventures. From list 2 Choose a flight select dynamic sound and
weather support.
3. HOW TO START
The best way to start with this adventure is to park the airplane at a
terminal at any airport. Be sure that the park breaks are set. Now start
the adventure and wait a moment until the adventure is loaded and the
variables are set.
If you are not familiar with the Germany language and you feel bothered
by hearing some German instructions you can switch to English language
only by pressing the SHIFT+L key.
If you turn off the park breaks you should hear the captains voice
requesting to leave the gate (in German only). Drive slowly to the runaway
and a flight attendant gives instructions to the passengers where to find
the emergency exits and to fasten seat belt.
Arriving at the runaway, make a short stop until you hear clearance for
take off.
While you are in flight you might get in some turbulence. You will hear
the fasten seat belt sign and a flight attendant. You can try to get out
of the turbulence by changing the altitude.
Whenever you start to prepare for landing, the adventure will recognize
that and activate any sound like fasten seat belt and flight attendant
that announce that you are getting to prepare for landing.
4. HOW WORKS THE WEATHER
If you start the adventure, it crates a new weather area with the name
automatic weather. This weather-area is 4 degrees long to every side with
the plane in its center. While flying, you might arrive the boundary of
this wather-area. In this moment a new weather-area with the same size and
the plane in the center will created. You will get information about this
situation, if you activate the information-mode by pressing the d-key. In
the default-setting, this information-mode is on.
While flying the density and pattern of the clouds will change. Also
thunderstorms is possible. The thunderclouds will became bigger, stay a
while and then goes smaller until they are disappear. There can be fog.
Mostly in the morning hours and in the winter or autumn. While flying you
might get into turbulence and if the turbulence staying longer after a
short time you will hear the fast seat belt sound. Try to get out of the
turbulence by changing the altitude. There are some nice-waether areas.
These areas are in Italy, Coast of Spain, Nevada, Caribbean and Tahiti.
In the default setting there are two cloud layer active. For slower
computers press SHIFT+C to change to one cloud layer only.
From time to time some thunderstorms will appear. First very small, growing to a
from the adventure defined size and finally slowly diapering.
If you are interested, what my adventure is doing, you can activate the
information-mode by pressing the d-key for basic information or the more
information mode by pressing the shift+d key.
5. HOW TO CONTROL THE ADVENTURE
These are all controls that are supported by this adventure:
SHIFT+l
Language change: To switch between English / German and English
only. Default is English/German If you switch to English only some
sounds feature might not be available because I didn't find any
English replacement for the German version
SHIFT+x
Press this key if you want to hear the passengers entering the
plane. (in German only)
SHIFT+g
To hear the flight attendant giving instructions to passengers
before departing. However this sound should automatically activated
rolling to the runaway after departing the gate.
However this sound should automatically activated rolling to
the runaway after departing the gate.
SHIFT+x
To hear the flight attendant giving instructions to passengers to
prepare for landing. However this sound should automatically
activated if you are prepare the plane for landing.
However this sound should automatically activated if you are
prepare the plane for landing.
i A help about the most of the keyboard keys you can use for this
adventure will displayed
SHIFT+i
Resets the adventures as it does it if you start the
adventure. This command is first checking where your plane is
located. In flight or on ground and reset the variables for the
current situation. Use this option, if you feel the adventure is
somehow acting strange.
SHIFT+u
If you don't want a dynamic weather generation that is
changing during your flight, turn it off or on here. That might be
useful, if you want to use real weather that comes with FS2002
SHIFT+w
Your cloud formation will change during the flight. If you
want to turn dynamic clouds off (or on) but keeping all the other
dynamic weather features, use this option.
SHIFT+f
The visibility will change during the flight. If you want to
turn dynamic fog off (or on) but keeping all the other dynamic
weather features, use this option.
SHIFT+n
Flying over some areas will activate the nice weather modus.
That usually happen in the dessert or other specified places, If you
want to force to activate or deactivate the nice weather manually
use this option.
SHIFT+c
On default the adventure generate two cloud layers
dynamically. To increase the performance of the frame rate you can
with to one cloud layer only.
SHIFT+t
From time to time thunderstorm will be generated by the adventure.
If you don't want to wait, press this button and they will come right
the way. But be patient, they will not be right there but grow slowly.
CTRL+t
From time to time you might get into cloud turbulence. If you want
to turn them off, because for non experienced flight sim user or the
landing is too difficult, use this option.
v To set high visibility.
SHIFT+v
To set medium visibility.
CTRL+v
To set low visibility.
d Usually the adventure is very quite in the back ground. If you want
to know what it is doing use this option and it will explain every
action it is doing in a scroll bar that appear as text in the
window.
SHIFT+d
If the information that comes with "D" are not enough, use
this option to turn extended information on and off. It might bother
you after a while. This option also plays a short signal to
validate, that the adventure is still playing the sounds files. The
older FS versions just stopped playing the sounds after a while for
some not known reason. You can validate that here,
6. WHAT COMES IN THE FUTURE
Hopefull I will be able to activate the rain and snow at the adventure.
7. THE HISTORY
Version 2.5
* Adventure optimized for FS2002.
* Added 7 new sound features in english language
* Changed some adventure buttons that were in conflict by flight simsulators ATC
