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Individual Mod Downloads for IL-2 1946 => Other Mods => Sounds (Common) => Topic started by: victor639514 on April 30, 2020, 08:02:53 PM
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Greetings again, my dears!
It's been yet another hot minute since I last came forth with an update on my audio work. Thankfully, quarantine and staying at home have given me the time and essentials to keep my creative gears rolling. After a month and a half, I am extremely happy to report VSM 7.3 is complete!
Designed with WW2 era modpacks specifically in mind, I cranked out an overhaul to the engaging aural experience for anyone looking to improve IL-2's soundscape. This time around, newer and more refined engine audio samples have been put into the framework of the mod. Having gathered bites from countless airshow videos and online sound sources, as well as assets from audio gods like Jafa and Tiger33, I've provided myself the nuts and bolts to give my mod a new breath of fresh air.
The result is a complete set of replacement engine sounds that will put any of the stock sounds to shame. You really must hear the new DB 600, BMW 801, Merlin, and Allison sounds - They are music for the ears! Don't forget the thunderous roar of US Radial engines - These will power through the skies with brute force! The Russian and Japanese piston engines have that familiar cool growl from the previous releases, but have been further refined and tweaked for greater flavor to your auditory senses! As for any familiar sounding engine sets, they too have been retouched in ways that bring out a greater taste!
All in all, the engine sounds in this version have been heavily polished and balanced to provide the best sound immersion possible, and I think you will enjoy them. Dare I say, I managed to make this mod even MORE fly-by worthy, without any classfile trickery of any sort! And as per tradition of SAS modding, all sounds are sampled at 22 kHz in Mono, for efficient operation and downloading!
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With the advent of it's own new buttons file and tools (courtesy of FL2070), I have made an even wider array of engine sounds to ensure diversity among IL-2's sound sets in the FMD and EMD files! Now with VSM 7.3 you'll get to hear more unique and distinctive engines at work, boasting a number 32 new audio presets! To get an idea of the variety you can expect, here's a list of aircraft families ( to name a few ;) ) you should consider trying out now:
- DBM-3
- Mig 3
- PBY Catalina
- Bristol Blenheim
- Gloster Gladiator
- DeHavilland Mosquito
- Avro Lancaster
- Fokker DX
- Ki-45
- G4M
- BF109C and D
- BF110s
- Junkers-52
- Ju88
- He-111
- P-39 and P-63
- Hawk 75 and P-36
- R-5
- I16
- MC202
- Ki-46
- MS406
- D3A1
- B5N
- B-17 and B-24
- C-47 and DC-3
- F4U Corsair
- TBF/M Avenger
- Hawker Hurricane
- SBD Dauntless
- F2A2 Buffalo
- P-26
- Ki-27
- A5M4
- CW-21
- Lockheed Electra
- Ilyusin IL-2
- Peshka Pe-2-8
- and more...
Trust me, this is only a little list I could think of. You have to try and discover the rest on your own! Try out ALL the aircraft on your roster! I swear, you can make a virtual airshow with this stuff. You won't be let down ~ ^^
This buttons version has been tried and tested in BAT - World at War, and VP ModPack. Works in both of them! Keep in mind though, this version was made to work in 4.12 modded installations so that it plays friendly with your default buttons file. To that end, I'm sharing two versions for simplicity's sake:
- One WITH buttons for VP ModPack and BAT-WaW
- One WITHOUT buttons for general compatibility with other modpacks, or just other IL-2 versions besides 4.12
( Both versions will still carry the complete and new sound sets I've put it, just in case people wanna use or listen to the samples. )
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VSM - v7.3 - Buttons
= WORKS ONLY ON 4.12 MOD INSTALLS =
= Just open the .ZIP and drop the ! VSM Sound Mod v7.3 into your MODS folder (depending on your respective 4.12 mod installation: VPModPack or BAT #World At War) and enjoy!
--->>> http://www.mediafire.com/file/n8pcag4yca7pnem/VSM_-_v7.3_-_Buttons.zip/file <<<--- <--- !!LINK TO DOWNLOAD HERE!!
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VSM - v7.3 - No Buttons
= Just open the .ZIP and drop the ! VSM Sound Mod v7.3 into your MODS folder (depending on your respective modpack: VPModPack, SAS, UP, HSFX, DBW, BAT #World At War, etc) and enjoy!
--->>> http://www.mediafire.com/file/txquzdg33wfy6u4/VSM_-_v7.3_-_NoButtons.zip/file <<<--- <--- !!LINK TO DOWNLOAD HERE!!
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Once again, thank you all so much for the support and encouragement that led to this mod's growth! I hope you all enjoy hearing the new goodies as I had in making them happen! Happy flying!
Oh and wash your hands afterwards. ^_^
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Victor's Sound Mod (VSM) v7 by victor639514 of SAS1946.
All IL-2 Sturmovik modifications made by victor639514 are made under the DWTFYWWI lisence. They may be, and are
encouraged to be edited, redistributed, used for other
games or purposes, and improved.
If you make an edit of this modification, and you think it's
worth sharing, don't hesitate.
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The first comment: Great thanks always.
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Great addition! Many thanks for sharing!!!
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I'm afraid to install. After all, the ideal cannot be improved ::).
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Thanks Victor - Checking it out today !
Kopfdorfer
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Great way to use quarentine time! Thank you!
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Great stuff, thanks a bomb Victor!
]cheers[
Mike
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wow
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Thanks so much, y'all! ^ ^
Keep those birds flying!
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Missing J-42 sound samples
No sound when my F80 is flying
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You sure?
I could work on a fix for that, though some jet presets are glitchy in their classfiles or code.
Some P-80 fighters have their corresponding working presets, while some of them use an older, more outdated sound format in IL-2's code.
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Can confirm VSM7 contains only one J42 sample:
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Fix is to copy samples from VSM6 JTW.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
I'll work on a proper fix for that.
In the meantime, copy and paste the J42 samples from VSM6 in the JTW version. That should work.
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great work first of all!
do you know if it is ok to take out that huge sound sfs file from the BAT03B folder if I copy in your new VSM 7.0 directly into the sounds folder in the modules folders?
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Thanks!
Hold your horses now! I never said anything about deleting any SFS files. XD
Besides, this version of my sound mod is only for WW2 eras. So naturally this goes into your #WAW3 folder.
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thats for sure :)
I was just asking if you know if its okay to delete the sounds sfs as your mod is now native to BAT...
for the time, i keep the sfs and the new 7.0 mod in my install :)
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Hello, I downloaded and installed your mod after watching videos on YouTube. I am currently with the BAT 3.8 mod in version 4.12.2. However, all the machine gun sounds I hear after installing your mod correspond to those in CFS3 and they are absolutely awful and not what I saw on YouTube. Can you help me please?
https://youtu.be/QkF7UcB-kT4
Here is the video I saw about your mod and the sound of the shots does not match what I have. Thank you for your help
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That's strange, since I used my own custom gun sounds for many of the weapons you hear in VSM since the 5.0 versions and onwards. Though I did use some CFS3 gun sounds as a starting point back when I first created VSM 3 years ago or so.
Are you sure you're not using any other conflicting audio packs? I can assure you clear as day that my MG sounds are tested and work without issue.
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I believe you, to my knowledge I only use your mod however the rendering that I have does not correspond in anything to what I could see on this video. I installed your mod as you explained and in JSGME it is the only mod to activate. I tried to find where could be wrong but I do not see since it is the only mod I have installed since I BAT. However, I noticed that I had SAS Engine mod installed by default and that there were sound files, can this be a problem with your mod ?
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Well, my sound mod doesn't carry not use any classfiles at all. I don't know how you're handling your BAT installation so I can't purely know what seems to be the issue on your end.
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It is very mysterious all that .... I installed BAT and the various updates on a clean installation of IL-2 without encountering errors during the installation. Well, I would continue with these sounds too bad even if I assure you that they are horrible compare to what you do. thanks anyway :)
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Good morning, sir,
Great! I love what you're doing, but I'll have a question, not a criticism. Shouldn't the sound that pilots hear be attenuated by the headphones and earphones and in the case of WW2 pilots, by the leather of the headphones. I've watched a lot of videos, flying in the cockpit, open and closed, but I haven't had the chance yet to hear the difference in sound with or without headphones.
Of course hearing a nice engine noise is nice and pleasant, but I'm not sure the pilots would have liked to put up with that during the whole flight, which sometimes could last a long time.
So there should normally be a new type of sound, with or without headphones in addition to the open or closed cockpit or outside view. As well as for the voices through the headphones which should be better perceptible, the engine sound being muffled by the headphones.
Again, no criticism, but a simple question in order to perfect the immersion.
Thank you again for your work.
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Hello, I finally managed to activate your mod and I must tell you, hat for your job! The game has entered a new dimension, I love it!
However, I encounter only one problem: during machine guns on the ground, the game freezes for 2-3 then after it comes back, and it does so on each pass as well as during normal flight.
I have an MSI GL72 laptop with 8GB of RAM, 2.60GHz Intel Core I7 processor, Nvidia GTX950M graphics card. What setting would allow me to reduce / fix this problem?
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Still busy as usual!
Expect the 7.2 update in a week or so! ;)
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Thank you. All the sound upgrades are first class. Unexpected was the new tyre squeek upon landing, nicely done, and the irrelevant 'boom' sound at the start of a new mission is gone too.
Something I don't understand about the updates; I have no VSM folder after the patch install, so I installed the previous update to this one using the same path as the main patch. It seems to work correctly, and I do have a back up of the BAT sounds folder, so if you could point out what I may have done wrong, I can easily re-install the whole lot.
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Thanks again Victor!!!
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W.M., you must install base VSM7 from first post to get VSM folder.
Example from by BAT 3.8.3 #WAW3 folder:
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I thank you for the the trouble you went to on my behalf. And to be sure, I just checked the #WAW3 folder again just prior to this post and let me say again with absolute certainty, there is no VSM folder.
I did install the base VSM as per the first post, and the mod works! Right from the opening screen during load up, the sounds of F4F's sitting on the carrier deck, right down to the skid noises on landing at the end of a mission.
It does make me wonder whether the first update patch worked at all given the situation.
All I can do I suppose is replace the #WAW3 folder with the back up and repeat the whole process.
Thanks again for trying
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Are you sure you're not muddling something up?
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Is there a 44 kHz version?
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VSM has been 22khz from the start - sadly, there is no 44khz version.
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I've always personally stuck with 22hz for better filesize, while still delivering quality audio.
On top of that, this sampling rate gives IL-2 better performance and breathing room when processing LOTS of sounds going off at once, like large air battles for instance.
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great sound mod, but I get a lot of "cannot load sample: null" errors when I use it instead of the integrated sfs sound from BAT....
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Hallo,
Thanks for this Mod and thanks for the and the continuation of mods. :-*
I have been playing the game since 2001 when I was still at school...Hard to believe...how good a game can be.
But I haven't found one thing yet.
Is it possible to get 12mm & 7mm hitsmokes in version 4.10 ?
My Il2 is so big that it would fill up an old hard drive, and I cannot update it to version 4.12 because it crashes.
it is impossible to find the cause here, but I would like to have the smoke effects.
Thank you
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I was having something of a problem, just like lufwaffe8523...actually, i DID have some custom sounds installed. I disabled them and now i'm crying with joy! Your sound mod is GREAT! Thank you so much! If i wanted to try and fiddle about with wind sound, which file should i pick out? I'd like to hear them louder and at slower speeds (after all if you take a ride on a bike you usually already hear a nice wind roar while as slow as 100 kmh!)
Anyway: thank you again, great job and new life to our game!
Riccardo
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Find the sections in presets/aircraft.common.prs called [sample.wind_(...).speed]. Files called wind_rear_(...).wav refer to open cockpit wind, and wind_int1.wav is the closed cockpit wind. In the [(...).speed] sections, find the minlo, minhi, and value entries. The minlo entry is the onset of the wind in knots, and the minhi is the speed at which it is heard at full volume. You can make the wind louder by increasing the value.
Example in current VSM7:
[sample.wind_int1.wav.speed]
minlo 25
minhi 135
maxlo 600
maxhi 600
value 2.0
pmin 0.8
pmax 1.5
This is the same section, but with the values changed to make the wind heard louder and at lower speeds:
[sample.wind_int1.wav.speed]
minlo 15
minhi 110
maxlo 600
maxhi 600
value 3.0
pmin 0.8
pmax 1.5
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Of course i forgot to thank you too for this fantastic mod! And for your quick reply! Off topic: i always follow your feats in Fishyy's video!! ;D
All the best!
Riccardo
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Hey y'all! Quick update:)
Thanks to the generous help of FL2070 and some technical wizardry, VSM 7.3 will feature it's own new buttons file with enhaced FMD and EMD sound features.
This will ensure a far greater diversity of engine audio for these WW2 birds! However, this buttons file will work best with 4.12 modded installations.
That is all for now. I'll see you in the skies sometime soon! ^_^
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I've been hard at work on VSM 7.3, so apologies for having gone quiet for a while.
The new version will carry it's own buttons file for the WAW module in BAT (it's also been tested in VP ModPack and it works there too). Don't worry, this won't affect flight model and engine performance. Just the sounds. ;) It's always been the sounds. I won't reveal too much, but I have a feeling you'll enjoy the engine sound diversity once it's released. ^ ^
I will still make another version of 7.3, but without the buttons file. This should ensure general compatibility with modpacks like UP, DBW, and HSFX, etc.
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-= VSM 7.3 has been released! =-
Go visit the first post!
Go visit the first post!
Go visit the first post!
>>> https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,63977.0.html <<<
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Thank you for a great job! The effect is excellent as usual.
I'm using the 4.13.4 version of the game with the buttons file from mod activator 6.4 with small updates needed for some mods. Can you specify - which emd files you modified in your buttons - I would add to mine.
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Sent you a PM.
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Splendid job Victor! Many thanks.
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Anytime! ^^
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that sounds are just insane! after first optimizing the sound in the game (enabling EAX following a mod and guide found here) and then adding the first rendition of the sound matrix unlocker together with the previous version of VSM, this new version is just - well, insane! the sound when using proper earphones (plugged in my Sennheiser earphones) while doing carrier circuits in those big radial powered Grummans and Voughts is music in my ears!
that new version of VSM MUST GO into the next BAT patch!!!!
thanks a lot for compiling it and doing all this work!!!!
ps.: I have one question though: the buttons file in your mod is way smaller than the one I am using which came with the soundmatrix unlocker-which one is the better to use?
the one from the unlocker does work properly with your mod it seems, no troubles on P&W and Merlin and Allison engines... ;)
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Thank you so much!! ^_^ Happy you enjoy it!
I pretty much used the exact same buttons file from the Sound Matrix Unlocker, and modified it from there to use more sound Presets to work with. Even while packing and unpacking the file to test ingame, the size kept fluctuating. Nothing went wrong and all works fine, though it was weird to see.
Still, my buttons file for VSM 7.3 contains far more engine sound diversity, which I'm pretty sure is going to make WW2 aviation fans and audiophiles very happy.
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Evening All.
So was wondering if I could have a little help here, I installed VSM 6.0 (base pack) then all the way to VSM 7.3
Unzip, drag and drop, overwrite as required but.... nothing... sounds dont match the ones from the samples unzipped from the downloaded folder.
I dont know if there is anything to be changed in confi to activate the mod?
I have done it through JSGME, paced directly, everything but nothing seems to be working.
Running latest BAT installation with Pegasus.
Thanks in advance!
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Ah so your buttons contain the same stuff and more compare to the unlocker one?
Good to know, will test it tomorrow then :)
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VSM7.3 vs. BAT SoundMatrix Unlocker
VSM7.3 was made by Victor with a custom buttons to expand the variety of engine presets available to a further extent than has ever before without presets from the the my_presets folder (in which presets can be made per-engine, i.e. different sound for each of DB605A, AS, AM, ASM, B, D, D with C3, etc). There are many presets which have never existed before, and sample sets for the new presets Victor created. VSM 7.3 does not modify the gun sound matrix.
BAT SoundMatrix Unlocker, on the other hand, doesn't do anything "new"—it allows modders to use varied engine and gun presets as were used before but were since deprecated. For example, motors like the R1820 (and its heavy bomber variant), the DB700, etc, all have their own presets. It also separates guns of similar parameters to their own individual presets named like the ones used in UP3's gun classes.
This means that while the VSM7.3 buttons is more varied than the BSMU buttons, its new soundmatrix is not compatible with other sound mods, unlike the BSMU.
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This is a far more detailed explanation. Thank you.
Also @Griffon_301, don't forget that my buttons version works best with VP Modpack and BAT's World at War module (#WAW3)...
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Unpacking my 7.3 download (4.12 Buttons) in 7Z returned a 1 :Data Error! ?? It appears to have unpacked ok after cancelling 7Z through task manager tho? Win10
The button file crashes my CUP #WAW 4.12.2m install (something about a FM_156 button problem) - if disabled ok!
Are both downloads essentially the same except for the 'gui/buttons' folder?
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Dude, this buttons version is for BAT #WAW3.
You'll have to download the non-buttons version to work with your CUP installation
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Hmm download page defo states 7.3 button version for 4.12 mod installations?
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True, but make sure you're not using any other sound mods, or even older versions of VSM.
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No worries just a wee bit of confusion on my part - great sounds dude!
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I'm having a seniors moment :-[ In a BAT installation, do I place the complete folder ! VSM Sound Mod v7.3 into the #WAW3 folder. Does the buttons file in the included gui folder thus take precedence over the buttons file in STD>gui folder?
Also, in my VPMod installation, do I place the complete folder ! VSM Sound Mod v7.3 into the #SAS folder?
Cheers
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Yes to both of these! ^^
Just drop it into #WAW3 and bam! Done!
My modified buttons file is based on BAT - WAW's default buttons file, so it will take precedence, but I can assure you it's safely compatible. :)
And yes, drop it into #SAS and boom! Done! The buttons file version also works safely here in VP.
Hope this helps ~ ^^
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Thanks for getting back to me. All done, and the sounds are bloody fantastic - love the Wildcat! Congratulations on a great mod.
Cheers
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Hello guys.
Does this mod work on the vanilla v4.14m patch? And how i´ve got to install this one correctly?
greetings from Germany
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Thanks for the great sounds! :)
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Request for making rocket shooting sound much louder,thanks. Or is it any idea to make it louder manually?
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To all VSM 7.3 (Buttons) users, I should probably warn you that my sound mod MIGHT not be compatible with other sound mods, like Tiger's flybys for instance.
Reason for warning this is because both mods carry their own modified buttons file. Tiger's works in that it incorporates flyby audio functions for IL-2 1946, meanwhile mine works at adding more WW2 aircraft engine sound variety to the game's roster.
Conflict with both buttons files might crash your game.
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Thank you Victor! Awesome work.
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How do you install this mod in some simple steps? I'm quite new to modding here in 1946, and I need some help.
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Move the "! VSM Sound Mod v7.3" to your active mods folder. The mods folder will be called #SAS, or #WAW3, or something else like that (always has a hashtag as its first character). and resides in your main game folder, the folder with il2fb.exe in it.
If you don't have that folder, you need a modpack (like BAT or VPmod) OR a modactivator first. If you don't have a modact or modpack, you should ask for help in the New Member Safety Area (https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/board,204.0.html).
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Ah, thanks FL2070. I'll make sure to get VP.