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Hello,
Recently I've come across some problems regarding adding shipped sounds to my map, which is simply adding a GCW era to stock Geonosis since I'm trying to branch out into modding maps and I figured that'd be a good start. I've been using Rends' tutorial and I believe I've been following it to the letter, but I've still encountered some problems. I can't seem to figure out exactly what it is, but every time I munge I get some strange errors. I was wondering if that could be the problem, so I posted it below. Thanks in advance!

I never understand sounds either, Rends tutorial gets me lost.

For a quick fix - make your Geo map read the Hoth sound file (look on Hoth code for the line of code on sound level file)

The Hoth level sound files covers Snow speeder,AT-AT, and AT-ST, and Tauntaun.

This should only be a temp fix, since the Hoth sounds have snow sounds, wind sounds that would not match on Geonosis.

As much as I'd like to wash my hands of the matter, I need something a bit more permanent. What's confusing me is the munging problems regarding shells, which I had never even touched. Also, the reason I can't just use the Hoth files is because there are some things like the Alliance tank that wouldn't be included in the Hoth sounds. If worst comes to worst, I'll heed your advice.

There are no problems in your munge log. Those are all pretty standard warnings.

Can you post the contents of the following files in your Sound/worlds/ge2/ folder?

ge2.req
ge2gcw.req
ge2gcw.sfx
ge2gcw.snd

Also I have had trouble with the sound munge fixes in the past. There seem to be a few different versions floating around but this one put together by Anakin and Marth8880 has never let me down.

Thanks for your help. By the way, at the moment I'm just trying to get the Alliance tank working, but eventually I'm going to add everything else.

ge2.req ge2gcw.req
ge2gcw.sfx
ge2g_con.lua
Oh and which file is ge2gcw.snd? I don't seem to be familiar with it.

jedimoose32 wrote:There are no problems in your munge log. Those are all pretty standard warnings.

Can you post the contents of the following files in your Sound/worlds/ge2/ folder?

ge2.req
ge2gcw.req
ge2gcw.sfx
ge2gcw.snd

Also I have had trouble with the sound munge fixes in the past. There seem to be a few different versions floating around but this one put together by Anakin and Marth8880 has never let me down.

I'm not trying to hijack your topic Hill, but I want to ask Jedimoose...
Can I use those sound bats to replace directly in data folder? (so all projects created have them?)

Haha no worries, besides I owe you after helping me out the vehicle problem.

@anthonybf2: I haven't done that personally (yet) but I see no reason why that wouldn't work because when you create a new map VisualMunge simply copies the contents of the data folder and appends ModID after a bunch of stuff. I can have a look and PM you with a more solid answer later today if you'd like.

@Hill400: .snd files by default (for me at least) show up as Windows Media Player files (.au or something like that). In your case I guess you don't necessarily need one (edit: one specific to your world) at this point but you will definitely need all_hover_combatspeeder.snd to be copied from Sound/gcw/ into Sound/worlds/ge2/ if you haven't done so already since you are referencing it in your ge2gcw.req.

While .sfx files load, list, and name each individual sound effect, .snd files configure those sounds properly with various properties such as gain, pitch, etc. Plus the .snd file assigns the names for the sound effects that are referenced in the vehicle's (or weapon's or unit's) .odf file.

I also spotted a problem in your LUA. should be The part after the semi-colon needs to be the name of your era's .req file.

Hope this helps.

Edit 1 is in blue above.

Edit 2: anthonybf2, I had a look through all of the files in the 'All You Need For Sound' package, and yes you should be fine to overwrite the contents of your data folder. Each time you make a new map you will still have to change data_ABC/soundmunge.bat (there are instructions commented inside the .bat file, plus it's pretty self-explanatory, just change '/XXX/' to '/ABC/' or whatever your mod ID is.

It seems I've gotten a few of the sounds working so far, but I'm going to need to add other things like victory/defeat sounds and music, how would I add those?

Well, there are a number of steps if you're adding custom music. Fortunately in your case you just need to reference the Hoth sound .lvl file in your LUA. In fact you've got the whole music/VO bit set up correctly as far as I can tell. Now you just need to tell the engine to load the .lvl file that contains all of those sounds that are referenced toward the bottom of the LUA file.

So find this: Now underneath it add: Note that the order of those two lines is relevant but in this case not super important. The order in which you call sound files is their 'priority' in regards to which ones get loaded first in the game's allotted memory. If you run out of sound/music memory the last one will get cut out, if you have multiple sound .lvl files loaded. Since you have only two, you will be fine.

Let me know if you run into any further problems.