[EL SE] Modifying chatter sounds

[MarcusInVR]

I have created a number of sound files that I want to publish as a mod pack, it contains replacement radio chatter files. I have followed the guide on this section: https://starwraith.com/evochronlegacy/c ... me.htm#402

It states to create sound files named chatter1-V.wav and so on. It also states to put them into the 'chatter' subfolder. I have not created complete sets (yet), just single files with the '-V.wav' in the file names.

The question is - where does the 'chatter' folder go?

I tried:
root/media/chatter
root/media/sounds/chatter
root/sounds/chatter

None of them worked.

Any ideas? Many thanks.

[Vice]

The folder is \root\media\chatter.

What values did you put in place of the 'V' character representing each voice? As stated in the kit, the 'V' character needs to be replaced with values ranging from 1 to 8 representing each potential voice/character for an index set. So once that's done and the files placed in the needed folder, it should work.

[MarcusInVR]

Hi Vice,

in this case I will create all 8 voice sets and try again. Thanks for responding so quick!

[MarcusInVR]

OK so... I generated three sound sets so far, all in .wav files. Eventually it seems that the game wanted to choose one of the files, but crashed - stating it can't read the .wav file, with an OGG error message. I converted the files to OGG, placed in the same folder, game runs - but still no file being played.

They are in root/media/chatter and now follow the file name convention of ending in -1 for set 1, -2 for set 2 etc.

[Vice]

That could indicate a dependency on the OGG format that hadn't previously been accounted for. There is a specialized loading system for those sound files that may be applying such a requirement. I'll check further into that and update the customizing kit as may be needed. In the meantime, OGG format should work. Are the sound sets comprehensive, or just the numerical set and/or certain voice sequence sets?

Edit: Confirmed, OGG is required for the revised audio loading system. Filenames were updated for the alerts/'bb' sequences to indicate OGG, but not for the others. I have updated the customizing kit accordingly.

[MarcusInVR]

At the moment I have "only" three sets, so it's not (yet) comprehensive. I will complete the entire set and then report back. Hopefully you will take a liking to my work then

[MarcusInVR]

I have finished the comprehensive sound set now with all 8 sets of different voices.

Placed those into media/chatter, but still - even with a comprehensive sound set, nothing is being played. They are in stereo. Do the files maybe need specific data rates?

// EDIT: Even did a clean install of the game with only the chatter sound files, just to be sure.

// EDIT 2: Yes, the files make the jump from 11 to 18 in their numbers for every sound set.

[Vice]

After analyzing that system, it appears there are two issues. One is the sound engine employed with the development language and its lack of wav support for one mode of playback, the other is with changing filename parameters not accounting for ogg. This will take some exploration on my part to figure out what solutions may be available. Once I can sort out something, I can provide a test build you can try via e-mail to verify things work.

Edit: I was able to code a solution that is working well so far. I'll roll out an update later today with the fix.

[Vice]

Ok, update rolled out that should fix the issue. For Steam, signing out and in again may be needed to initialize the update.

[MarcusInVR]

I don't believe it. It finally works

Although I had to leave my current station... at the next stations the samples were playing. Many thanks once again.

[Vice]

Great, glad it's working now.

[Marvin]

So, instead of .wav files, these modded files will only work when in .oog format?

[Vice]

For those specific radio chatter audio files, yes.

[Marvin]

Okay. Thanks, Vice.

[Vice]

Now that related custom media pack has been posted, I'll move this over to the main Evochron forum.