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==Horn Sounds==
Horn sounds are covered <font color="red>on Page 39</font>, however it may be found difficult to get a good horn or whistle sound that can be looped. The sound files are:
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr><td>- horn.wav:</td><td>'Railyard' hornsound (non-looping.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>- horn_loop.wav:</td><td>The looping hornsound used in 'Driver'.</td></tr>
<tr><td>- horn_start.wav:</td><td>The starting sound played before the looping hornsound above.</td></tr>
<tr><td>- idle 1.wav:</td><td>Generally used for the bell sound (bell keystroke = b.)</td></tr></table>

It is possible to put a very short (i.e. <0.5s) clip in as the horn_start.wav and the whole whistle/horn sound clip in as the horn_loop.wav. This allows the horn sound to still be latching (i.e. only sounds for as long as the H key is pressed), but the clip will be repeated after it is finished.

A period of silence (for 2 seconds or so) can be inserted after the end of the clip so as to stop it repeating straight away.

====Horn Sound File Format====
The file format for horn .wav sound files should be '''mono'''.

A '''22050 (22 kHz)''' bit rate is sufficient. While Trainz can handle a 44 kHz bit rate file, it does not improve the sound quality in the game and doubles the size of the sound file.

Refer also to [[CCG/Kind:_HornSound|Kind HornSound]] for additional explanation on the use of sound files for locomotives.



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