A little more oomph! SFX Pack

Originally Posted by Reece

Yes I can mix as well, I use Wavelab, Getting suitable stuff can be a problem, It's a pity SH3 wont accept Stereo, only with some of the ogg files, but these can be tricky to edit, sometimes they work fine & othertimes CTD, I have made some stereo speech files that have been edited to match the first officers lips when given the orders but still having the Das Boot theme.
If you listen yourself to the original 'Torpedo tube opening.wav' sound it's almost 'not there', to get them higher ofcource brings out background sounds as well, & since a lot are edited from movie sounds it's hard to get clean sounds, often they contain a mix of music, breathing etc and hard to get out!
We do what we can, but I am working on something that may be a vast improvement, if it works I will post my find!

di you know, you can use stereo sounds for SHIII! for SFX it isnt a problem (im using some, no problems so far?). the only problem is stereo+ogg (voice). there were several crashes if authors used stereo speech files (as example the DB sound mod).

i know the problem abour background noise very well, pretty hard to get rid of. but usually i dont use movie sounds anymore, except they are clean or dont disturb athmosphere...

looking forward to your find... ah and who is "we..." you dont work alone?

[Reece]

I must admit that I was working on theogg files most of all that I encountered the problems, will try some stereo again & see what happens.

Edit:What I've been working on: The SDL Mixer file, this is really the key to editing the sound files in SH3, basically it's a set of rules to play the sound files. It doesn't really matter what the volume is (even gain at 1db) the sound is limited by the SH3.sdl mixer file. I used a Hex editor & did some testing (adjustments) to the file with the result that I thought! In the game pressing Q opens the torpedo door, Firing a torpedo opens the torpedo door + fires the torpedo, I can understand now why the Open torpedo door sound is dead quiet! Please do this test, download the SH3.sdl file here:
http://rapidshare.de/files/21577417/SDL_Test.rar.html
backup yours, copy this test version to data\Sound folder run SH3 go to naval academy select torpedo training and use q to open door & then fire torpedo, you will notice the sound volume is great for the Torpedo tube opening.wav now but when you press fire the same sound is used followed by Torpedo_Tubes.wav !!
I tried to find a good wave editor that has SDL mixer built in but no go for windows, the only one I could find is Sweep for unix/linux based systems. (excellent freeware program). Will keep searching for a windows based editor/mixer, I anyone comes accross one please let me or NippleSpanner know.
Thanks.