Do you ever hacked sounds.dat? Which includes all sound files.
Could you add soundeffect/speech for machines? Its snarly, when you don't hear a sound/speech. There is a little KaM rule: if you send a unit to anywhere and don't hear a speech, the unit don't start to walk.
Understand?
Yeah, well actually me and my friend had a go at this a while back. I didn't have much luck though.
I thought I'd start up a thread and post our initial attempts
here.
Actually all soldier sounds are in the speech folder (Data\Sfx\Speech), sounds.dat is just a compilation of smaller sounds like the carpenter sawing the tree trunks etc.
Problem number one is that we have no sound effects for the ballistae and the catapults (I don't like the idea of ripping them from another game).
Problem number two is that my initial attempt at making the catapult use the sound files of the scout failed so I might not be able to do it (chances are there is something in the unit.dat that must be changed which I did not find yet).
No, it's not in units.dat. It's hardcoded into the EXE. I found the values today and have posted the addresses on the above mentioned thread.
Yeah, we shouldn't use stuff from another game, that would be kind of cheating. (and illegal) Making your own sound effects isn't as hard as it sounds. (no pun intended) I made a few clunk noises for the siege equipment, sure, it's not very good but it's better than silence.
If you have a good idea for what kind noises to use then I'll redo them. (I am borrowing my friends good quality microphone, so it should sound ok)
That means, that you try crossing scout sounds with exe hack and it doesn't run?
No, the game runs fine. Unfortunately when you click on your catapult the game thinks "That unit is unable to talk" and won't play the sounds. However by changing those values they will talk. (see above)
Let's move this conversation to my new thread, so the moderators don't complain about off topic discussions.
Lewin.
