Mikannounce - alternative annoucement tool
Posted: 21 May 2018, 22:11
So this is kind of a old project of mine, and I stopped working on it some time ago, mainly because of missing knowledge, but also because coding is not really my thing and I prefer building train routes in a visual 3d world editor.
However, the recent conversation in the Rijndam announcements thread reminded me of the lack of announcements in this sim again, and what a pain it is to create and manage them with the old MSTS Afroeptool we've been using that forced mp3 files to be unique over all subfolders of the program, routes being all put into one text file and when that got to big the program would refuse to load, so I dug up my old project again.
As I'm not going to continue that in the near future apart from keeping the current stuff updated (adding new lines and trains of 3.14 to the system) I thought about opening this up to contributions, specially since I also reached a point at which my knowledge with coding isn't sufficient to get a nice graphical UI etc I wanted to open this up, maybe its useful for others to not having to bother around with the old MSTS program anymore?
Included with the program is a documented map file telling you how to set up routes in the program, which to manage is now a lot easier than in the old Afroeptool.
Also, which is more of a gimmick, but if you use the chat service Discord, then you can now display in your playing status your current line, station you are at and what train you have through this program for others to see.
The program also includes english announcements for Simvliet (usable for all versions basically), although a map file has only been partially written by me, but extending that is easy.
So, as I already said, feel free to extend the functionality of the program, or just use it how it is right now for Simvliet
The dependencies required for running the program are listed in the description. If you have any further questions, ask here.
https://github.com/MikaKpk/mikannounce
Greets, Mika
However, the recent conversation in the Rijndam announcements thread reminded me of the lack of announcements in this sim again, and what a pain it is to create and manage them with the old MSTS Afroeptool we've been using that forced mp3 files to be unique over all subfolders of the program, routes being all put into one text file and when that got to big the program would refuse to load, so I dug up my old project again.
As I'm not going to continue that in the near future apart from keeping the current stuff updated (adding new lines and trains of 3.14 to the system) I thought about opening this up to contributions, specially since I also reached a point at which my knowledge with coding isn't sufficient to get a nice graphical UI etc I wanted to open this up, maybe its useful for others to not having to bother around with the old MSTS program anymore?
Included with the program is a documented map file telling you how to set up routes in the program, which to manage is now a lot easier than in the old Afroeptool.
Also, which is more of a gimmick, but if you use the chat service Discord, then you can now display in your playing status your current line, station you are at and what train you have through this program for others to see.
The program also includes english announcements for Simvliet (usable for all versions basically), although a map file has only been partially written by me, but extending that is easy.
So, as I already said, feel free to extend the functionality of the program, or just use it how it is right now for Simvliet
The dependencies required for running the program are listed in the description. If you have any further questions, ask here.
https://github.com/MikaKpk/mikannounce
Greets, Mika