can i add custom sounds by .mp3 instead of .wav?

tsensor · Post by **tsensor** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:45 pm

i have to add sound in local area in my map

i think that ambient sound and music play sound all the area

i tried add custom sound .mp3 file
sound played fast
it is not good to hear

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:58 pm

Mp3's work fine, theres some sound parms which control volume, pitch and a few other things.

Heres an example:

aliascache totalwar sound/nazaire/totalwar.mp3 soundparms 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 500 3000 item loaded maps "dm obj"

// soundparms parameters are: <BaseVolume> <RandVolume> <BasePitch> <randPitch> <minDist> <maxDist> <Channel> <Loaded/Streamed> <Maps>

So the 4th set of numbers control the pitch ( speed ) of the mp3. Set it to 0.0 and it shouldnt deviate from the original pitch.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:49 am

The pitch! doe............

bdbodger · Post by **bdbodger** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:19 pm

do mp3's have to be streamed as well from outside a pak ?

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:43 pm

For example the path to this mp3 I have playing in my map is this:

sound/nazaire/totalwar.mp3

so just replicate this folder structure but adapted to your file names and include the folders and sound file in the pk3, the sound should play from your pk3, wont need to be outside the pk3.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:09 am

I've often wondered about that, but I have had custom mp3's in 3 of my maps and no-one has complained about not hearing it. I always put them in the sound folder in my custom pk3. Could be the new workaround has solved any problems there were.

Its great having sound at last, sound is so important in imersing a player into your level.