Sound problem on Donner Pass activity.

[niknak]

Not sure if this should be in Open Rails or Sound forum.. When running the "DP1_EGAP_TURN1" activity on 3DTrains Donner Pass route Open Rails locks up/loops sound at a certain point(s) and Rail Driver switches off. I've attached the log and also the sms it refers to. Can't see an obvious error there, maybe you guys can? Thanks.

[slipperman]

Hi niknak,
wagon_cows.sms is missing a close bracket from the very end of the file.

Cheers,,
Ged

[niknak]

Many thanks Ged! I added a bracket to the 5 descending ones and all now seems okay. I'm wondering what dictates the number of ending brackets? Other sms files have various numbers.

[crstagg]

.......... I'm wondering what dictates the number of ending brackets? ...............

There has to be one for each opening bracket.

[niknak]

Ah, all is revealed. Thanks Charles.

[crstagg]

BTW there are free test editors that have tools to match brackets. ConText and Notepad++ are two that I use.

[niknak]

Yes I saw ConText mentioned somewhere and have just downloaded it. Cheers.

[niknak]

Spoke too soon! Problem still persists even though I have amended the sms file to show 6 end brackets. Log and amended sms attached.

[slipperman]

Hi niknak,
Apologies, mate

The file wasn't short of a close bracket, but a quotes!

Remove the extra quotes you added, then change line 52, which reads : File ( "cow_2_bull.wav -1 ) to add a quotes character after '.wav' so that it reads :- File ( "cow_2_bull.wav" -1 )

**Caveat : I have NOT run this file in the sim.
The effect was that, as the closing quotes was missing, the ')' following '-1' was ignored as it was being counted as being within the quotes. The next matching quotes found was on line 56, just before 'x_couple_auto1.wav' which is why OR reported that it couldn't parse it as a number!


Cheers,
Ged

[niknak]

Many thanks Ged. I think that may be it!