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MSFS20 Can someone explain how to create Exterior Sound when a window or door is opened?

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Hello all,

Can someone explain how to create Exterior Sound when a window or door is opened?
For instance, if you open a window and the engine is running, the volume inside should suddenly jump up high and the engine and wind noise from exterior should be quite loud.
The vent window on the Bell helicopter does this quite well, but it is elllusive as to how this works. Can someone explain easily how to go about making an effect where sound does this with an open door or window or vent?

Many thanks.

Bill
LHC
 
Bill... I take it you're asking XML? Because doing it with C++ is easy, but you don't want to hear that. How about having sounds at different volumes where one is shut off and the other is started depending on the state of the window? With maybe a one second overlap so no gaps in the sound?
 
lionheart said:
Hello all,

Can someone explain how to create Exterior Sound when a window or door is opened?
For instance, if you open a window and the engine is running, the volume inside should suddenly jump up high and the engine and wind noise from exterior should be quite loud.
The vent window on the Bell helicopter does this quite well, but it is elllusive as to how this works. Can someone explain easily how to go about making an effect where sound does this with an open door or window or vent?

Many thanks.

Bill
LHC
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Are we using Wwise?

In the combustion section you add extra exterior combustion sounds (combustion_outside_mix in the example), send then to interior output bus and then use a custom RTPC to control the voice volume using a local variable. You can then set the local variable in your code to control the volume directly.

As you can see in the screenshot that I have 6 different combustion types instead of the usual 2. I have created high manifold pressure sounds so that the engine sounds vary not only by RPM but MP as well. This leads to two combustion blocks for both inside and exterior sounds. The extra 2 sounds are the mix sounds which I blend with the interior sounds to provide exterior sounds when the canopy or windows are open.

Don't ask me how to create custom RTPC parameters because I don't remember how I did it. But as you can see from the screen shot I have created 4 such parameters. I do remember that I put them into the simvar/engine/custom folder simply because it already existed and it worked (if it works I'm not going to mess around more than is necessary).

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This screenshot shows how the Voice Volume is mapped to the L variable (Antsairplanes_simvar_eng_outside_volume)

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