Soundset problems this time.

[Blakwulf]

Well, Godzilla is trucking along, and i have 7 finalised (well, mostly) monsters with custom abilities. 2 of them have custon soundfiles, and therein is my latest problem.

I've made one unit that i've set to use the KotoBeast sound set, and i've imported new sounds (with the names swapped so it changes the Koto beasts, as in KotoBeastPissed3 and whatnot). Now, i first did this a little while back, and one way or another, got it to work. Solo and multi.. i hosted it, and other people could hear the custom sounds too.

Now, i've just done it again (this time using a modified Tauren soundset) but no one else can hear the sounds. They work for me (though none of my imported 'death' sounds work). I set the custom path according to where the files are (as in, Units/Orc/Tauren/whatever) but they still won't work over the net. So, questions are as follows.

1. Why don't my custom 'death' (KotoBeastDeath1.wav) sounds work?

2. Do i -have- to use .wav? My sound folder is already topping 6 megs for just 2 sets.. can't i trick it into using .mp3 or some other format with actual compression? I don't want to sacrifice the audio quality to use crappy compression .wav's.

3. Why won't my newly imported Tauren soundset work over b.net? The map file size doesn't seem to jive with the size of my sound files, though i've imported them. As far as i know, i've done everything the same as i did last time, yet still no go.


Thanks once again.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

1. Using XP? Right click on a WAV that does work, and look at the properties. Specifically, the frequency, channels, and bits. Check to see if the sounds that don't work are the same as the sounds that do.

2. I think because of the way you are 'swapping' out sounds, you must use .wav format, yes. Otherwise, it won't be the same file that WC3 is referencing.

3. If your up to a size like that, perhaps you CAN cut down the sound quality. Use a much less bit rate for something like a 2 second sound. Typically, if its only 2 seconds long, you wouldn't want anything more than 3k per sound.

edited: you answered q1 as q2 and vice versa

 

[Darg]

one possible trick to try for (2) is to make an mp3 file and just change its file extension manually to wav. Import that and see if it works.

 

[SD_Ryoko]

Darg

I have a sound for when an ally building / unit is attacked.

I found, there is a wav file for each race, and one generic, browsing through the sound editor.

I can't find a way to use my sound. I found under Game Interface Constants the generic sound, but when you click it to change it, imported sounds are not on the list. Only provided sound sets. I'm not sure what I need to do here.....

 

[Darg]

well initial tests seem to indicate that the generic sounds listed in sound - town attack and sound - under attack seem to point at the race-specific sounds. So if you play as orc, then those generic sounds will actually be the orc warning sounds.

also note there's some possibly funny caching issue going on. I think imported sounds are cached in the game for every subsequent map until you quit the game.

here's the map I'm working on if you want to muck around too. I have replaced both human and undead warning sounds, and left the game interface sounds as default. Note how human and undead in-game will have their warning sounds replaced but orc and night elf do not.