Does the new patch allow music modding?

Ballbarian · #1 February 18th, 2008, 10:29 PM

Great job Ich!

By chance have you tried this format/technique with replacing the game's sample files (smp)?

Being able to change the sound or volume of things like elephants and Illithid's mind blast would be a major act of kindness to my ears.

lch · #2 February 18th, 2008, 11:33 PM

Funny, Sombre asked exactly the same. Those aren't encoded at all. They're raw PCM data. The only thing that I don't know is their frame rate. sling.sw, the sound for the sling shots, is probably 11kHz stereo (or 22kHz mono), as is earth.smp, which I think is the sound that the earth elementals make when trampling. But howl.smp, for example, does have at most half that rate. growl.smp might be 6kHz mono or something, same for elefant.smp, the elephant sound.

So yes, I think I could normalize those sounds a bit. I'd have to look if the frame rate is saved in the game or in the files, which should be quite easy to do (just rename some). An easier fix is to just overwrite elefant.smp with muller.smp or earth.smp, which are easier on the ears.

Ballbarian · #3 February 21st, 2008, 01:55 AM

Spent some time playing around with some utilities that I had on my system and managed to find a magic combination of settings & hacks to capture & replace sounds.

Attached is a quick alternative to "fear.smp". This is the sound used by mind blast and some other spells. In my current game using LA R'lyeh, my hordes of Illithids have been piercing my ears all week so I am now using this alternative sound.

Oh, and just in case:
BE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR OLD AUDIO FILE BEFORE REPLACING IT WITH THIS ONE!

Foodstamp · #4 February 21st, 2008, 01:58 AM

Yeah right. I KNOW you have replaced it with the "OMG that Elephant just saw a mouse" sound. Nice try.

Ballbarian · #5 February 21st, 2008, 02:02 AM

Foodstamp · #6 February 21st, 2008, 02:04 AM

The annoying elephant attack sound.

P.S. did you have to put 900 xp in all your gan files?

Ballbarian · #7 February 21st, 2008, 02:13 AM

lol

No, it is for real. I used a smaller, shorter & less obtrusive sound from Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. If I remember right, the original was named "i_vertigo" or something like that.

Remember to uncheck the "Fiddle XP" box (in RanDom v2.03) before randomizing your map. You should only have to do this once and the program will remember your settings. This will solve your xp problems.