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Hey guys I've been at this for several days now and I'm really struggling. Basically my end goal is to create a few small modifications to stock maps to add missing sounds (first in the project is Ki-adi-mundi's voice files). I have been able to import Mygeeto into a new project, and have it working fine. The new sounds are what I am really struggling with. I have followed Rend's tutorial to its end with success (adding at-st sounds), read Vyse's custom sound tutorials, and other information on custom sounds. I still have had no success adding Ki-adi-mundi's voice.

Here is what I have done:

MODID = ZZ1

In "BF2_ModTools\data_ZZ1\Sound\worlds\ZZ1" I have created these files:

ZZ1.req ZZ1cw.req ZZ1_ASFX.asfx Sound_Prop_File_Referenced_Here I have also edited the line in the conquest clone wars lua file to look in addon for sounds. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, any advice to make these changes more efficient, would also be helpful (as little reliance on the addon folder as possible) would also be extremely helpful.

Thanks,

Your files look to be set up fine except for two things. First, I'm not quite sure why you called rep_hero_kiyadimundi in TMOcw.req, unless that is the name of your .SND file. If that's the case, you're okay there. Second, in my experience you should change the .st4 to a .stm, as the .st4 is used for quadraphonic ambient surround sounds. See Marth's thread on sound research.

Have you tried to munge? If so, posting the error log would be helpful.

Thank you for your response. Looking at the error report there are various issues with soundflmunge.exe. I also made sure to edit the req file to call SND instead of rep_hero_kiyadimundi by your suggestion. Additionally, I changed the file extension for the .st4 to a .stm.

The OP has been updated with the changes.

Here is the error report, apparently the sounds can't be read:
Edit:

Also, I am using the fixed and improved visual munge files.

Triforce919 wrote:I also made sure to edit the req file to call SND instead of rep_hero_kiyadimundi by your suggestion.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. When I saw that you referenced rep_hero_kiyadimundi in the req, I thought maybe you had referenced the unit's odf. If the name of your .snd is rep_hero_kiyadimundi then its fine, change it back lol. My bad on that one.

I'll look over your error log in a bit, I have to get somewhere.

Edit: Okay, here's what I noticed: Looks to me like KACOM0001.wav isn't mono or 16-bit. If you have a sound editor like Audacity (free) you can import the file and re-export with the correct settings.

Edit 2: Okay, I steered you wrong twice. Because you're trying to add sound effects and not a sound stream, you need to use a .asfx file instead of .stm. Just change the extension. When you're done, your folder should look like this (this is for athenova landfall, where I have custom sounds confirmed working):



You put your .wav sounds in the effects folder, list them in .asfx, list them again in .snd, (and you have already set those files up correctly) and reference those two in in your cw req, like so:



I would try that, leaving out the sound that gave you to error for now, and see if it works. Ignore the weird names I have for those files. You can call them whatever you want, as long as you reference them correctly in the req.

Thanks again for your helpful response. Your instinct was right, my "SND" file was named "SND," not after ki-adi-mundi, so I made the necessary changes in the req to actually reference the property file. For some reason the image links you have provided appear dead to me, is this an issue on my end?

Nope, dropbox killed their public folder system shortly after I posted those pics. I should have things working again in a little bit. Did you change your .stm to .asfx?

Thanks for bringing them back up! I have changed the extension and followed the directions, but the sounds are still not appearing

The good news is that I cannot find the sound files in the listed errors anymore. Here's an updated log: The original post has been edited to reflect the current changes.

Whoops, the path is incorrect in the .asfx. Your wav sounds are in the effects folder, but your lines all point to streams.

streams\hero_battlechatter_vo\KACOM0007.wav should read effects\hero_ etc etc

Oops I forgot to change the post for that file! I actually changed the path to look in effects after you mentioned I should. It's still not working

Edit: Well that was a pretty nooby issue, but I fixed my project's addme script to read the new gamemode lua's (specifically clone wars conquest on mygeeto, the one I'm trying to add sounds to). Still running into the issues though. I ended up making a new project that omits the map files since I believe I'm only making side modifications. Everything seems to be working fine aside from the lack of imported sound. I'll update the op with my new file names.

Hmm, okay. Have you read this: http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=9541

You've set up all your sound related files correctly, now you just need to modify the mission lua. I would gladly type it out but vyse honestly did a better job at explaining, plus it would be redundant for me to repeat it It's only a few steps.

Is your "Sound_Prop_File_Referenced_Here" file a .snd? Just wanted to make sure.

Thank you so much for all this help so far, but I still can't seem to get them to work! I updated the OP with my current mission script. I looked over the tutorial again, and added the " OpenAudioStream("dc:sound\\ZZ1.lvl", "ZZ1_ASFX");
OpenAudioStream("dc:sound\\ZZ1.lvl", "ZZ1_ASFX")" lines that the tutorial requests, but still no success. The lua script is definitely being read by the game, as I swapped out the hero to the rifle class and back with success. It just seems like there is one stupid little thing that's under my nose!!!

Did you add between the lines for yav sound and dc:SIDE\\Rep?
The openaudiostream lines probably aren't necessary (I don't think) since you're just doing effects for now - but no need to remove them. If you were to add soundspaces and whatnot to your map later on I think that's where they come in. Anyway, add that dc:sound line and see what happens.

Edit: Indeed you have done that, I missed it when I read through. I'm a little stumped, but one thing you can do is look in the ZZ1/data/_LVL_PC/sound folder (in the addon folder, not your mod directory) and make sure you see a file called zz1.lvl that is larger than 1 or 2 kb. That means the sounds at least munged successfully.

I just took a look, and the file is 3,618 kbs. Does that sound like it munged correctly?

Edit: After another glance of the sound properties file, I noticed it's referencing some streams that the sound files I've added do not exist in. Could this be the issue? I basically just copy and pasted this section from the stock references.

3618 means the sounds definitely munged. Can you elaborate on what you mean about the sound properties file?

Basically all I did for the sound properties file was cut and paste ki-adi-mundi's entires from one of the global snd files. But since I'm implementing the sound differently using the effects folder, is it possible that this is where the issue is?