WinSPMBT (sounds)

[Jack Dionne]

Jack,

Don't listen to that Greybeard guy He's making it sound far more complicated than it needs to be.

Converting sounds in WinSP is easy... well sort of... :rolleyes:

If you replace the original wav sounds (mp3 or wav for MBT) this will not cause any OOB PBEM issues. I am currently playing a full security PBEM game and have replaced over half of the original sounds. It sounds so much better :smoke:

The hardest thing about replacing sounds is identifying which sounds (in the sounds folder) are used by which weapons. The sound files are listed as 1.wav through 250.wav. I've been using an excel spreadsheet to slowly ID the sounds.

To identify some weapons I even resorted to recording my voice saying "twenty-three" "twenty-four" etc... and saving the recordings as 23.wav and 24.wav then replacing the game sound files with my recordings. Then in a battle, instead of hearing some unidentified explosion or MG, I'd hear "twenty four" and know that the weapon that just fired uses the 24.wav file.

I'll attach my latest spreadsheet to this post for WinSPWW2 sounds. It has a lot more sounds identified than in my Cross Sounds 0.5 spreadsheet (and corrects a few errors), but I've only replaced a dozen since 0.5, so I'm not ready to release ver 0.6 yet. SPMBT used many of the same sounds from SPWW2, so this will give you a head-start.

I've used sounds from WAW, MBT, PG, CM, BK, D Day, and other sources. I recommend the free Audacity utility:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

which I used to shorten, lengthen, fade out, and create sounds.

I hope this helps Jack. Let me know how you make out.

Thanks for the great info, it is nice to see people like you take the time to answer question like this. I't what makes a forum work.