question about sound files

i noticed that in the sound folder there is a speech folder containing 9 folders of the exact same files.

i dont remember the ID letters but each folder has 3 sets of the same sounds but at 3 different excited levels of volume. now all this is in just one of these folders, so why then are there 9 sets of these folders if only one has all the voice sounds that the game needs?

i tried them and they are all in english so its not about other languages. some files are missing from some folders at random, many of these files have 1 or 2 or a dozen sound files missing from them so i am really confused by that. would it help to go through them and replace all those missing files in all the folders?

[vanjast]

There seems to be 9 different personalities and each folder contains the voices fo the guys that talk (scream) to you, in 3 different levels of excitement.

I got rid of the 'excited' (SpeedKrieg) voices by copying the 'HeyDude' (normal) voices over them.
K - Normal voice
P - SpeedKrieg Voice (that annoying shouting moron)
S - Silent mode (whispering) Voice

so how does that work? does the game random select any folder so it sounds like different people?

if so why have 10,000 speech files? seams easier to mix the personalities by station and only have 1,200 voices of the same 400 sayings. (3 levels each)


if you dont want one of these sounds at all, can you delete all 3 versions of it in all 9 files? or will it cause a ctd

[clayp]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

so how does that work? does the game random select any folder so it sounds like different people?

if so why have 10,000 speech files? seams easier to mix the personalities by station and only have 1,200 voices of the same 400 sayings. (3 levels each)


if you dont want one of these sounds at all, can you delete all 3 versions of it in all 9 files? or will it cause a ctd

I dont know bud,I took the folder that plays the annoying music in the game out and it didnt cause any problems..

Originally Posted by clayp

I dont know bud,I took the folder that plays the annoying music in the game out and it didnt cause any problems..

in options you could check the box to turn off music to do that

im thinking sound files are just like the intro videos and it would be ok to delete them but this would be 45 files so ....

i guess in order to be able to do it with a jsgme mod i need to replace them all with blank wav files anyway

[Vikinger]

I think there is a mod that change thos "tension" voices.

I think it fixed the issue when you was on silent running and your crew was supposed to be quiet but when they got "nervous" they started to shout. Like

yes sir, new depth 56 meters.

and the nervous guy:

Yes sir, new depth 56 meters.

Ops i think the destroyer heard us sir.

[vanjast]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

so how does that work? does the game random select any folder so it sounds like different people?

It looks like this happens when you select your crew, when in base

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

if so why have 10,000 speech files? seams easier to mix the personalities by station and only have 1,200 voices of the same 400 sayings. (3 levels each)

I'm sure you can change all this in S3D - somebody has mentioned this.

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

if you dont want one of these sounds at all, can you delete all 3 versions of it in all 9 files? or will it cause a ctd

I haven't tried this, but what I did was, say on the '1' folder - copy all the 'K' versions over the 'P' versions, and some the 'S' versions (I don't mind them whispering).
After that, replaced characters '2'-'9' folders with character '1' voices. I'm not worried about talking to only one set of people.

Originally Posted by vanjast

After that, replaced characters '2'-'9' folders with character '1' voices. I'm not worried about talking to only one set of people.

ya thats what i was thinking, fix one folder to have all the missing sounds and replace the shouting fools, then make 9 copies of that folder rather than trying to change the games routing system so you avoid unexpected issues with typos of whatever. for me i would like to make all voices "normal" in all cases and "whisper" for silent running.

so they were just trying to give unique voices to each character you choose for your crew is why they did so many files? thats nice they put so much work into it, with so many shortcuts you notice they took you dont always so all the hard work and extra effort they also put into this game.

ATR-42 did a mod with those files to fix 2 missing voices but thats about as far as he went with it.

did you ever make that "no screaming voices" into a mod? i think it would be very popular with many players.

[vanjast]

Originally Posted by WEBSTER

did you ever make that "no screaming voices" into a mod? i think it would be very popular with many players.

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4Mod/OneNormalVoice.zip (14MB)

This is the '1' folder, which you have to copy to the other folders.
The Readme has all the gen.

edt: Actually you can upload this to this websites 'mod-vault' if you'd like .

thanks, i just did a mod to get rid of the yay guy, i threw him overboard lol

cant believe its not been done already but it wasnt

[Nisgeis]

K - (K)alm
P - (P)anic
S - (S)ilent

There are various sound files missing for each crew voice (the voices are linked to the characters).

Rudder rudder anyone?

[vanjast]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Rudder rudder anyone?

Make it a double...