Can you help with finding a designated sound file?

Chock · 04-26-07, 12:49 PM

Does anyone know which sound file(s) the Mitsubishi A6M and Aichi D3 use, or which file I could look at to find out?

The reason I ask, is because in real life they, and many other Japanese aircraft, used either 14 or 18 cylinder air-cooled radial engines, and the sound files SH4 uses for these appear to be direct ports over from SH3 i.e stuff like the Messerchmitt bf109 and Junkers 87 'Stuka', which both had in-line water-cooled engines.

These two different types of engines sound very different indeed, with the higher RPM of radial engines giving out a very distinctive buzz-saw type sound, as the tips of the propeller blades approach supersonic speeds. anyone who's ever watched Tora! Tora! Tora! will be familiar with this sound, as it's almost identical even though many of the 'Japanese' aeroplanes in that movie were in fact converted from American AT-6 Texan trainers. Nevertheless, the AT-6 also had a radial engine, so it sounds right.

In effect this means that the Japanese combat aeroplanes sound totally wrong as they come in to attack your submarine, but what is worse is that the current SH4 aircraft sounds are too similar to the subs diesels, making it very hard to track the aircraft's position with the guns as the sound blends in with the diesels, which would not be the case with a radial, as you can hear those things miles away.

I have a very good recording of an AT-6 and I want to stick it in SH4 to be the sound for the Jap planes, as I think it would add to the immersion quite a lot, that sound being so evocative of the Japanese combat aircraft.

04-26-07, 12:49 PM	#1
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Can you help with finding a designated sound file? Does anyone know which sound file(s) the Mitsubishi A6M and Aichi D3 use, or which file I could look at to find out? The reason I ask, is because in real life they, and many other Japanese aircraft, used either 14 or 18 cylinder air-cooled radial engines, and the sound files SH4 uses for these appear to be direct ports over from SH3 i.e stuff like the Messerchmitt bf109 and Junkers 87 'Stuka', which both had in-line water-cooled engines. These two different types of engines sound very different indeed, with the higher RPM of radial engines giving out a very distinctive buzz-saw type sound, as the tips of the propeller blades approach supersonic speeds. anyone who's ever watched Tora! Tora! Tora! will be familiar with this sound, as it's almost identical even though many of the 'Japanese' aeroplanes in that movie were in fact converted from American AT-6 Texan trainers. Nevertheless, the AT-6 also had a radial engine, so it sounds right. In effect this means that the Japanese combat aeroplanes sound totally wrong as they come in to attack your submarine, but what is worse is that the current SH4 aircraft sounds are too similar to the subs diesels, making it very hard to track the aircraft's position with the guns as the sound blends in with the diesels, which would not be the case with a radial, as you can hear those things miles away. I have a very good recording of an AT-6 and I want to stick it in SH4 to be the sound for the Jap planes, as I think it would add to the immersion quite a lot, that sound being so evocative of the Japanese combat aircraft.