New Sound Effect/Audio Capabilities   Like other (high dollar) simulator programs, Simulator 6 Expanded has the ability to import sound effects that can play inside your fire scenes.  Effects such as saws, sirens, crowd noises sounds meant to give an added sense of realism. Unlike other simulator programs Simulator 6 Expanded has a built in utility program that lets you record your own sound files.  That means that while you’re building your simulations you can record vital sound effects such as dispatches, radio updates, developing situations or even scene descriptions without having to go to some other program.

 Import Icon/Clip Art for Layering   Simulator 6 Expanded gives you the ability to import your own icons, symbols, pictures of rigs, etc. and place them into your fire scenes.  Of course you can adjust/resize these icons to make them fit your scene.  With this feature you can also build layers of objects in your scenes to give the illusion that fire and smoke animations are coming from behind some objects in the scene.  We are also throwing a nice library of fire service related icons to get you started.

 Self-Running Simulations/Slide Show   With Simulator 6 Expanded you can create self running simulations showing any scene, in any order, at any stage you and any tempo that you choose.  The scenes will contain all the animations and sounds just as you placed them.  There is also no limit as to the number of scenes you include in the slide show.  As usual we took this already great feature another major step.  The utility lets you enter messages that show up as pop ups on the screen to ask questions, describe scenes or as injects in table top exercises.  Also you can save multiple slide shows or self running simulation scenarios for each simulation.  When you’re ready to run a scenario, just pick one from the drop down list of saved scenarios.

 A Built in Photo Editor   We wanted to put as many of the tools necessary to put together a good simulation in one place so we added a photo editing utility to the simulator.  This utility lets you edit pictures already imported into the program.

 Save and Play PowerPoint Presentation in the Simulator   Simulator 6 Expanded gives you the ability to import Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations directly into your simulator files that can then be played on other computers that don’t have PowerPoint installed.  Now you can prepare drills in PowerPoint, build simulations that practices the skills of the drill and then put them together in a single file.  Anytime while you’re running the simulation you can play the PowerPoint Presentation.  You can easily move back and forth between the programs.