Train Sim World 6

Internal passenger ambience

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If this isn't your cup of tea, you can lower or even mute this in the audio settings

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I programmed a core feature! A minor one, but still a nice detail. But what is it?

It adds the sound of talking passengers inside carriages, using a combination of 2D looping ambience & 3D one-shot sounds that trigger every now and then from random seat locations.

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2D ambience: Stereo ambience that plays with no specific origin point in the carriage. It updates to match how many people are onboard after loading / unloading.

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3D One-shots: Sounds that play from random seat locations in each carriage. Sounds like:

• Coughing

• Sneezing

• Yawning

• Laughing

• Phone sounds

• Food wrappers

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Better yet, these are all affected by the time of day and season. With more food wrappers being heard around lunchtime, more coughing & sneezing during the winter and more yawning in the late-evening into the early-morning.

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Each carriage also spawns with a "Chattiness" level which determines how loud the passenger talking will get and often the 3D one-shots play.

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The passenger ambience is muffled while you're in the cab, but it still adds a nice bit of subtle background even in the driver's seat. Especially partnered with the onboard announcements.

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I've also added the ability to mark quiet coaches. This basically prevents the busy chatter ambience from fading in; keeping the base level movement noise & all of the oneshot sounds I mentioned above.

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This system makes the largest impact on conductor mode, as it now brings the carriage to life!

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Once again, if you're not a fan of this, you can turn it down or even off in the audio settings.

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GWR Class 150 recording

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​I went on my first recording trip! It was great fun & we recorded everything we wanted plus more! ​

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I travelled down to Exeter with one of my co-workers; where we met up with some GWR engineers the following morning at the train maintenance depot.

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(It was super cool to see it all represented in-game as well, I'll try to re-create the recording setup in-game for my video dev-blog when the game releases).

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We had 2 locos for the day, 150261, which we used for the static recordings & 150263, which we used for the running recordings as we sent it from Exeter to Paignton and back.​​​​​​

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Funnily enough, 150261 is featured on the screenshot published on our Steam page! Not sure if that was a coincidence or not haha