Ambient Sound with No Music??

artao · 11-14-14, 05:47 PM

Hiya! I've been away awhile.
Just bought DW yesterday. Loving it!

I've only fiddled a little bit, but am already looking at the mods I want to install. I'll likely go with RA/DWX, but am gonna hold off on that big of a change for now, until I've played stock a bit.
However, I have installed a couple things. The fix for dipping sonar and the increased sonobuoy channels for one. Also some sound mods: the DW Combined Soundpack and the DW Ambient Sounds mod.
It's the latter I'm wondering about here.

In Sub Command, I installed a set of two ambient sound mods that completely removed the music, replacing it with .. well ... appropriate ambient background noises.
I'm hoping there's something like this for DW .. and if not, could someone help me with converting over that ambient mod from SC to DW? The SC mod consists of 9 .wav files between 2 folders; one with 3 and the other with 6 .. I see DW has 3 folders with 4 .wav files in each. It's clear that the 3 folders are for DW to pick the "intensity" of the music, but I figure that, for what I'm looking for, that's not particularly important or even relevant.
I'm guessing here that simply changing the file names from the SC files to match those of the DW files would get this done. (I suppose I could just try that and see what happens .. can't break anything TOO bad, right

)

Any ideas? I'm kinda surprised no-one else has sought to do this already ... at least nothing I've found about it.

Thanks

artao · 11-15-14, 02:18 PM

Well, I went ahead and tried replacing the music files in DW with the files from the ambient sounds for SC ... AND IT WORKED (kinda)
Didn't even have to rename anything ... I used the 6 files from the SC mod (in the ..\Audio\Music\212 folder -- which is for the 688/Seawolf .. it'd certainly work with the three files in ..\173 as well I'm sure, which are the Akula ambient sounds)
I took those six files and copied them into ALL of the Music directories in DW, and deleted the four files that were in those three directories. I didn't even need to rename anything.
The "kinda" is that, doing this, you only get the ambient for the 688/Seawolf, and it's in ALL of the platforms. Also, there is no differentiation between "intensity" levels .. but I really don't care about that.

11-14-14, 05:47 PM	#1
artao Officer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 238 Downloads: 144 Uploads: 0	SEMI-SOLVED: Ambient Sound with No Music?? Hiya! I've been away awhile. Just bought DW yesterday. Loving it! I've only fiddled a little bit, but am already looking at the mods I want to install. I'll likely go with RA/DWX, but am gonna hold off on that big of a change for now, until I've played stock a bit. However, I have installed a couple things. The fix for dipping sonar and the increased sonobuoy channels for one. Also some sound mods: the DW Combined Soundpack and the DW Ambient Sounds mod. It's the latter I'm wondering about here. In Sub Command, I installed a set of two ambient sound mods that completely removed the music, replacing it with .. well ... appropriate ambient background noises. I'm hoping there's something like this for DW .. and if not, could someone help me with converting over that ambient mod from SC to DW? The SC mod consists of 9 .wav files between 2 folders; one with 3 and the other with 6 .. I see DW has 3 folders with 4 .wav files in each. It's clear that the 3 folders are for DW to pick the "intensity" of the music, but I figure that, for what I'm looking for, that's not particularly important or even relevant. I'm guessing here that simply changing the file names from the SC files to match those of the DW files would get this done. (I suppose I could just try that and see what happens .. can't break anything TOO bad, right ) Any ideas? I'm kinda surprised no-one else has sought to do this already ... at least nothing I've found about it. Thanks __________________ l8r, artao Last edited by artao; 11-15-14 at 02:14 PM.

11-15-14, 02:18 PM	#2
artao Officer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 238 Downloads: 144 Uploads: 0	Well, I went ahead and tried replacing the music files in DW with the files from the ambient sounds for SC ... AND IT WORKED (kinda) Didn't even have to rename anything ... I used the 6 files from the SC mod (in the ..\Audio\Music\212 folder -- which is for the 688/Seawolf .. it'd certainly work with the three files in ..\173 as well I'm sure, which are the Akula ambient sounds) I took those six files and copied them into ALL of the Music directories in DW, and deleted the four files that were in those three directories. I didn't even need to rename anything. The "kinda" is that, doing this, you only get the ambient for the 688/Seawolf, and it's in ALL of the platforms. Also, there is no differentiation between "intensity" levels .. but I really don't care about that. __________________ l8r, artao