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i have recently put vehicles in my map but when i got in and moved, no sound came out . is there something i have to add to my sound folder?

brant777 wrote:i have recently put vehicles in my map but when i got in and moved, no sound came out . is there something i have to add to my sound folder?

I think so, although I've never heard of this type of problem happening.

Which vehicles did you add? Could you please post your LUA?

What vehicle(s) are you trying to add?

EDIT: Ninja'd

Guys, this is my friend on xfire, so I know this, he tried to add those speeders from Ender.

i added the imperial speederbike and the anakins starfighter

here is my lua

brant777 wrote:ReadDataFile("sound\\tat.lvl;tat2gcw")

That lvl file probably doesn't have the sounds you need.
You'll likely need to create a custom sound lvl or load another which calls the sounds for the vehicles you want to use.

How to add missing shipped sounds

1. Create a new side with the Imperial speeder bike and Anakin's Starfighter in it. Then, load them in your LUA like you would with any other custom side.
2. In the ODF for the starfighter, find this:

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   EngineSound             = "rep_fly_anakinfighter_engine_parameterized"
   TakeoffSound            = "rep_fly_anakinfighter_take_off"
   LandSound               = "rep_fly_anakinfighter_land"

   And replace it with this:

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   EngineSound         = "all_fly_snowspeeder_engine_parameterized"
   TakeoffSound        = "all_fly_snowspeeder_takeoff"
   LandSound           = "all_fly_snowspeeder_land"

   And save and close that ODF file.
3. In the starfighter's "cannon" weapon ODF, find this:

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   FireSound = "rep_weap_fly_anakinfighter_cannon_fire"
   FireSoundStop   = "0"

   And replace it with this:

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   FireSound           = "all_weap_fly_snowspeeder_cannon_fire"
   FireSoundStop       = "1"

   Save and close that ODF.
4. In the same vehicle's "missile" weapon ODF, find this:

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   FireSound = "rep_weap_fly_anakinfighter_missle_fire"
   FireSoundStop   = "0"

   And replace it with this:

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   FireSound           = "imp_weap_inf_rocket_launcher_fire"

   Now save and close that file too.
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5. In the speeder bike's ODF, find this:

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   EngineSound 			= "speederbike_engine_parameterized"

   And replace it with this:

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   EngineSound         = "all_fly_snowspeeder_engine_parameterized"

   Save and close that ODF file.
6. In the speeder bike's "cannon" weapon ODF file, find this:

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   FireSound       		= "imp_weap_hover_speederbike_cannon_fire"

   And replace it with this:

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   FireSound       		= "imp_weap_walk_atst_cannon_head_fire"

   And save and close that file.
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7. Now, open up your LUA.
   
   Above this:

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   ReadDataFile("sound\\tat.lvl;tat2gcw")

   Add this:

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   ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\hot.lvl;hot1gcw")

   So it looks like this:

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   ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\hot.lvl;hot1gcw")
   ReadDataFile("sound\\tat.lvl;tat2gcw")

   Save and close your LUA. Open up Visual Munge, make sure "Common" is checked and your side that you created is selected in the list of sides, and click "Munge"! 8D
8. Finally, go into \GameData\data\_lvl_pc\sound\, copy hot.lvl, and paste it into your map's sound folder in the addon directory. (e.g., \addon\ABC\data\_LVL_PC\sound\)

Basically, what we just did here is we loaded the Hoth sound file into our LUA and replaced both vehicles' sounds with the Snowspeeder and AT-ST sounds since they both fit well enough and there is no sound LVL with the sounds from both Anakin's Starfighter and the Imperial Speeder Bike. One other way to fix the vehicles' sounds is to do some complicated, painful work with compiling stock sounds into a custom sound LVL, but that really isn't worth it. Another alternative is to simply use your own custom sounds, but most people don't seem to know where to find their own custom sounds/know how to create custom sounds from scratch by themselves and pack it all into a custom sound LVL.

By the way, you do not know how thankful I am that at least somebody actually cares about resolving missing (vehicle) sounds even though it's a problem that really isn't all too difficult to fix. (No offense to anybody and I don't mean to sound "snobby" or anything ; quality sound design just means a lot to me and it's just as important as a mod's visuals, and the lack of good sound design results in empty atmosphere. This is something that I cannot stress enough in maps and mods.)


EDIT:

Oh, and what Ace said.

where do i go to create a new side and what should i name it?

Custom Side: How To

Just name the side VEH or something.

could i just add the worlds that have the vehicles i want? like what you said about adding hoth to the lua.

Typically, only really two stock world sound LVLs can be loaded successfully due to annoying conflicts with multiple .snd files and just a bunch of stuff that conflicts with each other.

is there an easier way to do this? i have added a gunship, arc170, and a snowspeeder to my map. Btw thanks for the tut. but i was just wandering if there is an easier way to do add sound into my map.

Not really, no, unless you enjoy picking at custom sound LVLs. Honestly, the way I described isn't all that difficult, but instead, time-consuming and a bit tedious. And either way, I pretty much gave you all the tools you need to do it, so all you need to really do is just piece it all together.