Weapon Sounds?

[FRain]

OGG is only for music and dialogue.

Get the xbox ADPCM codec.

Make sure you resample your sound in goldwave to 22050 hz.
Save as PCM 16-bit MONO, not stereo. Stereo will overload (according to leet) and cause the sound to be heard full volume across the map.


compile:

tool sounds weapons\urmom\lawl xbox 1

[Ki11a_FTW]

I've always used the xbox command personally...

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[p0lar_bear]

What lag said. All CMT members (esp. Masterz) should know by now the correct format for impulse sound effects, after I crammed it down their throats every time they got it wrong.

Also, check Halomaps for the updated OGG encoder; the one supplied with the HEK is out of date.

[English Mobster]

Bumping an old thread of mine with some new info.

I was having issues with Windows 7 and P0lar's DLL fix.
They've JUST updated the OGG encoder on that site on September 3rd, meaning the Halomaps one is out of date.
http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-libraries.php

I downloaded the new one, and the exception I was getting totally disappeared. Recommend someone upload the new codec to Halomaps (preferably P0lar).

[t3h m00kz]

OGG is only for music and dialogue.

Get the xbox ADPCM codec.

Make sure you resample your sound in goldwave to 22050 hz.
Save as PCM 16-bit MONO, not stereo. Stereo will overload (according to leet) and cause the sound to be heard full volume across the map.


compile:

tool sounds weapons\urmom\lawl xbox 1

where can one find said codec?

[Advancebo]

Google search.

[t3h m00kz]

Yeah and I got a site that had a link that was hidden because I wasn't a member of the site.

also

[Advancebo]

Yeah and I got a site that had a link that was hidden because I wasn't a member of the site.

also

http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/~xbox/xbox-scene/tools/drivers/xb_adpcm_codec.rar

[FRain]

I'm going to reinstate this again because I've toyed with it and figured it out.

Make sure you save weapon firing,reloading, and such sounds as 22khz MONO. If you save as either mono or 44khz, every time you play that sound, it will overload the sound engine, cause all the background/ambient/other sounds to stop, and will be heard full volume across the map.

[NerveBooger]

I encountered this before with making Hillbilly Mudbog and Tusken Raid. All violent death sounds were custom and loud, and they worked just fine, but I also had a few custom weapon sounds, and once in a while I would get the same problem - silence. Later, I read somewhere that netgame sounds (multiplayer) and other game sounds that were modified caused this problem. The solution was editing the path to the game sounds to a custom path. I did this, and never encountered the issue again. I did not save my debug file to compare to yours - but this might help (?).

Also, if you are using tool created by {TLS} Udie, that by itself will cause crashes/exceptions , and if your xbox codecs "are" updated, tool will compile the map, guerilla will correctly play the sound, but the compiled map will exception, or you will get ghostly silences.