Soundmaxx lightening

[Randolph1]

I would like help setting up soundmaxx and SMP4 for x-plane 11 to insure great lightening and crashing thunder. Thank you. R

[sundog]

I think you posted similar questions in a couple of other discussions here, but to recap:

- X-Plane 11's built-in lightning effect doesn't look right yet (it's too dark). There's nothing SMP4 can do about that; we'll have to wait for Laminar to fix that in a future beta release or update. SMP4's own lightning effects look as they should, though. In X-Plane you see both, as long as you're in an area reporting thunderstorms.

- There's nothing special you need to do other than run the installers for SMP4 and SoundMaxx. SoundMaxx replaces X-Plane's lightning sound files with its own when it runs. If SoundMaxx doesn't seem to be working at all, check your log.txt file and make sure there isn't some issue with its license check.

- We did find a bug yesterday where lightning created by SMP4 wasn't sending messages to SoundMaxx to accompany these lightning strikes with sound. We've delivered a SoundMaxx 1.01 patch to X-Aviation to fix this, so it should be available in the near future. 

 

[Celis]

Wil be a patch or full install? 

if it's full, then I'll wait for 1.01

It wont replace Default C172 sounds?

Thanks.

[sundog]

In XP11, SoundMaxx replaces the "generic" aircraft sounds for a given engine type that are used when no specific sounds for a given aircraft's engine are provided. In XP11, the C172 has its own specialized sound effects, and SoundMaxx won't replace them.

In XP10, SoundMaxx does upgrade some of the specific sound effects for the default C172, B737, Bell 206 and Robinson R22 helos. Most of the other default aircraft in XP10 rely on the default sound effects that SoundMaxx also upgrades.

In both XP10 and XP11, SoundMaxx provides ambient outdoor sounds that are sensitive to the season and location, airport sounds, weather sound effects, turbulence sounds, cabin sounds, landing & takeoff sound effects, etc.

1.01 will be provided as a free update to 1.0 customers. It will be a complete installer for new users - I don't know if the update for existing users will be a patch or a full reinstallation. Only a couple of files have actually changed.

 

Edited December 29, 2016 by sundog