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Hey all,
my problem is simple but I don't seem to get this. I can get custom sounds, music etc. working in game without any problems, but adding stock sounds doesn't want to work. I followed the tutorials so exactly as I can but there are still no weapon or tank sounds. I still guess it's my fault. But I don't seem to be able to solve this by myself. I would be very grateful if anybody here knows the solution for this.
Here are all the files you'll need to know (All custom sounds, music share one file with the stock sounds. I thought it would still work so I didn't change the other files. Do other files affect the .sfx file?).


cmw.req:
cmwgcw.req:
cmwgcw_sfx.sfx:
(I hope it's not too large. I just would like to add both tank sounds, all default weapon sounds, all lightsaber and force sounds and some voices).

And here's the part of the .lua file where it reads the sounds: As you can see the lua loads the stock space sounds from GCW era and my sound.lvl (e.g. all custom sounds, music, and hopefully all written stock sounds).

Thanks in advance.

And btw I downloaded all the fixed sound munge bats from here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=31166&view=unread#p513829

Why not load a stock GCW-era sound .lvl in order to get the stock unit and weapon sounds, and then just load the missing stock sounds and your custom sounds/music through a custom sound .lvl? Similar to what you've already done with using the stock spa.lvl.
That way you can narrow the problem down. Right now you're essentially loading a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be loaded through your custom one, and that leaves a lot of room for problems.

Anyway, I skimmed through your .asfx and didn't spot anything obvious in there. But can you explain what's going on in your cmwgcw.req with all the config references (e.g. "all_inf_rifleman_urban", "imp_inf_commander")? You realize that having all those entries means the game is expecting a .snd file named after each of those things with sound properties inside? (i.e. Sound\worlds\cmw\ would contain all_inf_rifleman_urban.snd, imp_inf_commander.snd, etc, and each of those files would have all of that unit class's sound properties inside, which is mind-bogglingly inefficient). If you are looking to load all your custom unit sounds in that way, you're better off using the same format as the stock game, which is one big .snd for each team (go to data_ABC\Sound\cw\ and you'll find cis_unit.snd and rep_unit.snd). I'm quite sure that this list of (presumably) non-existent .snd files is what's breaking the sound in your map. But there may be other, less obvious problems. I recommend trying what I suggested in the first paragraph.

Thank you for the reply.
Well It were a lot easier for me just to add all the weapon sounds and some tank sounds. Then there were only holes I would like to fill with custom sounds.
I didn't know I had to create more .snd files because the tutorial didn't tell me that. Now I only want to test and load a single stock sounds: The Atst+all its weapon sounds. I copied and pasted imp_walk_atst.snd into my Sound/Worlds/cmw folder and have removed this: but I still kept the atst.

I remunged the sound lvl again but the atst sound is still not working. Could you please explain me how to add stock sounds properly?

There are really two different topics here: 1. How to add missing shipped sounds, and 2. How to include stock sounds that aren't really "missing". The walker/vehicle sounds fall under the first category, and the unit/weapon sounds fall under the second.

1. THIS tutorial explains how to add missing sounds pretty well, but to summarize, you need to include a reference to imp_walk_atst.snd in your cmwgcw.req under "config". Then you need to copy imp_walk_atst.snd into Sound\worlds\cmw\. Then you need to find a stock world that has the AT-ST sounds working (either Endor or Hoth, I can't remember if there are others) and grab all of the walker sound lines from the .sfx file in that world's folder. There should be some common walker sounds and also some specific ones to the AT-ST (I think). Put those copied lines into your world's .asfx file.

2. How to include stock sounds that aren't really missing in the first place: Seriously, just load one of the stock sound.lvl files. I don't know why you want to go through the trouble of building all of the unit and weapon sounds from the ground up. If they were 90% custom sounds and 10% stock then I could see the point but it sounds like you only have a handful of custom sounds that you're hoping to include so you're doing at least 10x more work than is really necessary.

Thanks I got it working. The munge bat I downloaded caused this problem. I just copied the one from the tutotial and now it works.
Acutually there are not so many sounds I would have to add. I would only need to add the weapon sounds (just sniper, engineer, pistols and some more), 2 different tank sounds and then I still need to add the lightsaber sounds.
But thank you very much for your time and help