Look at any aircraft that uses aliased sounds; by opening up an addon aircraft for example, you may see a sound.cfg file (which can be opened in Notepad), and which will look something like this:

[fltsim]
alias=C172\sound

To get the aircraft to adopt a different sound, you can substitute the aircraft folder name (C172 in this case) for something else (such as b747_400). The trick is, it needs to match the name of the aircraft folder exactly to work. I downloaded several freeware sound packs for big jets, turboprops, etc., and added them to select aircraft, then aliased other aircraft of similar size or with similar engine types, to create more diversity in AI aircraft sounds. Just remember to assign the "parent" sound files to a non-AI aircraft and then alias all your AI to them, otherwise it may impact performance in the sim. It can be a big exercise if you have lots of aircraft to work with, but the results will make you grin.

I am running FS9, at this point.

OK, I am aliasing AI sounds to some of the different sound.cfgs for the AI planes, however, I am still hearing the generic one-size-fits-all engine noises. I am sure the aliasing is OK, as I am copy-pasting the name of the AC folder who's sounds I wish to use. Is there anything else I need to do?

BTW: This is only the case with AI planes. When I actually select the AI model to fly myself, the sounds work correctly, so I am thinking I missed a little tweak.

Hagar wrote on Oct 13^th, 2007 at 5:44am:


Alright, any information on decompiling the AIR files?