Re: Ikesmith, BR 9F
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:07 pm
Hi, glad to hear you have got the Austerity to run now. Just one other thing I would point out, I had a problem with the Safety Valve 'escaping steam' sound and had to correct it. The instructions how to do this were given in the Austerity Thread, but I have attached them below just in case you are experiencing the same problem.
emrhd01 wrote:Hi,
First thanks again to Mike for kindly uploading and sharing his WD Austerity version mk2_a with us. This seems to have sorted out all the previous problems, well all but one.
The Loco still has a slight problem with the "escaping steam sound" and also the "escaping steam value" (shown in F5) when the safety valves lift, this does not affect the running of the Loco in RW, but if anyone is interested I've had a look at the wd_Engine Simulation.bin file with RWTools and found that the 'PressureForClose' value was higher than the 'PressureForOpen' value and that the d:alt_encoding lines have been typed slightly incorrectly (I'm not surprised that this has happened because Mike has had to type in an awful lot of stuff).
Anyway if you want to change the values to those I have typed below, you will find everything with the Safety Valves will now 'work' and 'sound' as it should.
NB: Only do this if you know how to use RWTools. If you are not sure what you are doing, ensure you "Back up" the wd folder before you start.
Open RWTools, click on the "Files" tab, select "Open RailSim file", navigate to the wd_Engine Simulation.bin file and open it. Now alter the existing values to the new ones that I have shown in 'Red' below:
<SafetyValve>
<EngineSimulation-cSteamSafetyValve d:id="31685384">
<PressureForOpen d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000406C40" d:precision="string">226.0000</PressureForOpen>
<PressureForClose d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000106B40" d:precision="string">216.5000</PressureForClose>
<SteamUsage d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000709740" d:precision="string">1500.0000</SteamUsage> </EngineSimulation-cSteamSafetyValve>
<EngineSimulation-cSteamSafetyValve d:id="31656280">
<PressureForOpen d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000606C40" d:precision="string">227.0000</PressureForOpen>
<PressureForClose d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000106B40" d:precision="string">216.5000</PressureForClose>
<SteamUsage d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000000070B740" d:precision="string">6000.0000</SteamUsage> </EngineSimulation-cSteamSafetyValve>
</SafetyValve>
Now click "Files" tab and click on the "Save RailSim file" and finally you can "Exit" RWTools.
Also when you install the wd .rwp file with Package Manager you will see a warning of "zero byte" file (don't worry its not a problem), this is a wd_Steam_Engine.bin file which has been left in the Assets/ike/addon/RailVehicles/Steam/wd/default folder, just delete it.
That's it, go give the WD Austerity a run, hope the above has perhaps helped someone.