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So I'm trying to get the shipped AAT sounds to work using Rends' tutorial HERE but the problem is they're not working. My files in the data_TES\Sound\worlds\tes folder are:
tes.reqtesgcw.reqtesgcw.sfx My soundmunge.bat in data_TES:My munge.bat in data_TES\_BUILD\Sound:In VisualMunge I chose Select All, Munge, and got these errors:And my tes.lvl sound file was only 3 KB large. Any ideals what the problem could be here? Any help would be grateful.

P.S. If I do get this to work, what configuration .snd file should I reference in my tesgcw.req in order to get lightsaber sounds to work?

What does your .lua look like? Sound .lvl files that call stock sounds are basically only filled with configurations, so they're not going to be incredibly large. Three KB sounds about right.

yeah 3 kbs is right because only is aat, maybe you forgot add line in lua? also i dont remember if i had problems with the order the which i load sounds in my map i always used
sound stock
dc:sound custom
dc:sound missed

Well the sound bit of my LUA currently looks like this: The btr.lvl being the one with custom sounds.

Deviss wrote:sound stock
dc:sound custom
dc:sound missed

I'll try that order to see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Whoops, actually the order I originally had it in was what you posted, Deviss, which wasn't working. So I tried what I posted and it still didn't work. It must be the file itself then? And yes, I did remember to move the file to the Sound folder in the addon directory.

AQT wrote:Well the sound bit of my LUA currently looks like this:

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ReadDataFile("sound\\kas.lvl;kas2gcw")
ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\tes.lvl;tesgcw")
ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\btr.lvl;btrgcw")

The btr.lvl being the one with custom sounds.

Deviss wrote:sound stock
dc:sound custom
dc:sound missed

I'll try that order to see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Whoops, actually the order I originally had it in was what you posted, Deviss, which wasn't working. So I tried what I posted and it still didn't work. It must be the file itself then? And yes, I did remember to move the file to the Sound folder in the addon directory.

wait me 5 min i will make the sound file with aat so you try adding it in addon folder

EDIT: sound file put him in sound addon folder i hope work fine

Deviss wrote:yeah 3 kbs is right because only is aat, maybe you forgot add line in lua? also i dont remember if i had problems with the order the which i load sounds in my map i always used
sound stock
dc:sound custom
dc:sound missed

Well, for me that never worked. I had to put the dc: line first.

@Deviss: I tried the sound file you munged but still nothing unfortunately. What else could be the problem?

AQT wrote:@Deviss: I tried the sound file you munged but still nothing unfortunately. What else could be the problem?

lua? maybe because gcw and not cw sound :S

It's the same as before.

try

ReadDataFile("sound\\kas.lvl;kas2cw")
ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\btr.lvl;btrgcw")
ReadDataFile("dc:sound\\tes.lvl;tesgcw")

Still nothing. For some odd reason, I tried a sound file I made two years ago with AAT sounds and it worked partially (everything but main guns). That file was 16 KB but it also included other sounds like for the Hailfire and AT-RT. I don't understand why the setup I have and Deviss's .lvl file aren't working. Anyone else care to test them out?

This probably won’t help but I didn’t add AAT effects to my maps bnecw. sfx file or "cis_hover_aat" to my bnecw.req file in my data_BNE\Sound\worlds\bne folder, to get AAT sounds to work in my map. As Deviss has pointed out , I have a feeling as AAT sounds are only found in the CW era they won’t be heard unless you reference CW sound in your LUA were the AAT is found in official maps like CW Utapau of CW Kashyyyk.

I put this in my LUA: ReadDataFile("sound\\uta.lvl;uta1cw") without adding any references in my sound files yet the AAT sounds work. The only problem is GCW sounds may become broken.

I could be totally wrong though.

You can do it that way yes, reference a sound lvl of a map that uses them, like Mygeeto, but it may or may not take away other sounds, ambient etc, that he may have wanted for his map.

I did make a custom sound lvl for my ATAP walker, took me a couple of tries, but it did work.
I believe I did pretty much everything AQT did, I was referencing the sounds for the ATTE and ATRT (or ATST) I think but the first thing I did was to, as mentioned above, make sure the sounds I wanted were in the lvl that I was going to take them from. (in my case Geonosis) I then created my sound lvl change the lua sounds back to yavin cw sounds and added in reference to my new lvl, placed after the normal readdata line and it all worked fine.

When I get back home I can post the reqs, sfx etc if you like but they look just like what you have.

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure you have the CW and GCW folder in your sound directory but since you have added sounds before I am pretty sure you have it that way.

Thanks for the suggestions, Jendo and Frag.

Fragme! wrote:When I get back home I can post the reqs, sfx etc if you like but they look just like what you have.

If that is the case, it's alright then.

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure you have the CW and GCW folder in your sound directory but since you have added sounds before I am pretty sure you have it that way.

Yep, no changes. This is getting really frustrating. I'll just try things out a bit more before calling it quits.

Try cleaning + munging while selecting just "Sound" and "Sound Only". I personally can munge sounds only that way, so it might work.
BTW, why aren't to you simply loading the aat sounds in your btr.lvl instead of a second sound file?

Aman/Pinguin wrote:BTW, why aren't to you simply loading the aat sounds in your btr.lvl instead of a second sound file?

Just tried that. I did a clean with Sound and Sound Only and then munged with just those two options checked. My btr.lvl gained an additional three KB and in-game no AAT sounds were present once again (this was after I deleted the tes.lvl and removed the line that referenced it in the LUA). And just to see whether it made a difference, I decided to load AT-ST sounds in my tes one. The .lvl file remained three KB and in-game it was the same results as before. What the heck is going on?

Just looking back over this, and trying to make a sound file aat it just dawned on me.
You are calling for the aat sound in the gcw.req and gcw.sfx file except the actual cis_hover_aat.snd file if it needs to pull anything from it is in the cw directory.

Now I could be grasping at straws but have you tried putting it in the cw req as well and loading that in to your lua. Or at least copying the cis_hover_aat.snd to the gcw directory as well.

Oh and the sound file that I created was also 3kb

So I renamed all my files and their respective references to "tescw," did a clean and then munged. The file was three KB once again. I made the necessary changes in the LUA and munged but in-game still no sound. I don't think it matters which .req/.sfx you referenced the sounds in even if it's not from that era. In his tutorial, Rends referenced the AT-ST in a cw.req and it worked fine.

Maybe my mod tools are broken when it comes to munging sound .lvls, although custom sounds work without a problem. I'll test my hunch out on another computer with a fresh installation to see whether it makes a difference.

Mind sending me your sound folder? I would could try out some things then.

@AQT I don't think your modtools are broken, I tried to do an AAT sound file as well which as mentioned was only 3 KB but the .lvl file is vastly different from the other sound file I have successfully created. And once I tried the new sound file on a test map (that didn't have the AAT as part of the default sounds, curse you yav1 sound file) it also didn't work. Got turret movement sounds but no weapons or engines.

Edit: but go figure, I just added the AAT lines to the sfx for the sound lvl I created for the ATAP and they work just fine in game. The file size changed from 6 KB to 11 KB.