Ambient sounds

[kevin.granade]

SDL is Simple Direct Layer, a library that abstracts away hardware support (video acceleration, sound support, some networking, etc). SDL is what we use for both displaying tilesets and sound support.

Read what I said again,

We have no plans to add sounds to the console builds

The reason for which is that in order to add sound support to the console build, we’d need to build in SDL, at which point you’d have the SDL build, so… just use the SDL build.

[sick_trigger]

what I mean is, would it be possible to compile a custom build with the SDL mixer and sounds enabled, but without tiles? Or is sound implemented in such a way that tiles are explicitly required?

I get significantly slower performance on the graphical build, whether using tiles or not

[kevin.granade]

It should be possible, but it would also be very invasive to the code and probably break a bunch of things.

[sick_trigger]

I suppose I’ll get to breaking a bunch of things then! I’ll probably end up with the same performance problems even if I do manage to finagle something out, but it’s worth a fiddle I guess

Cheers

[pip12345]

To work on my own soundpack I made a little document that includes the paths of all files so I can easily get an overview of what still has to be replaced etc.
Figured some of you could use this as well.

Here it is: http://pastebin.com/zwWEWNzr

[dharthoorn]

Please please please someone help me for I swear I am going to stomp on my PC in a fit of blind rage and then I’m going to murder the f*cking cat

Using version Windows SDL/TILES for windows,

Extracted the soundset archive and dumped the folder “Chesthole” into the data\sound, as per instructions from this thread here

Then in-game in the options menu there is NO “Choose Soundpack” option to turn on sounds, really there is not I have checked 20 times
There is music volume which does exactly diddly squat since there is no output of sound to begin with

So I go forum surfing and when I manually added the 2 “default” ogg’s that I found in here and they play just fine but not the chesthole soundpack even though it adheres to all rules that it should

Why is Cataclysm sound-trolling me? Hope someone can help before tear out all my hair

[rremyroy]

[quote=“dharthoorn, post:197, topic:9710”]Then in-game in the options menu there is NO “Choose Soundpack” option to turn on sounds, really there is not I have checked 20 times
There is music volume which does exactly diddly squat since there is no output of sound to begin with[/quote]

If you have the latest version of the game, you should see something like this in your options. This is with build 4158.

[dharthoorn]

Thanks for the reply rremyroy

Well that’s my problem right there. I was using 0.C stable, and not an experimental build
Upon closer examination I saw mentioned the new method of sound implementation indeed started at build 4002… well dayum

This thread could use that build restriction up at post #1 IMHO for relative newcomers like me

Thanks again for pointing that out, I just confirmed that it works fine in the experimental builds

[Malkeus]

http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=11833.0

Contains a link to Chesthole’s soundset. It’s tagged experimental as well.

[pip12345]

Here’s the first version of my soundpack, many sounds have been swapped out with legal to use sounds.

All music, ambience and weather, explosions, open and close sounds of various doors and some smash and swing sounds have been replaced.
Most “repeated” sound effects such as gunshots, walking sounds etc have not been replaced yet, but I’m working on that.

I tried to make the sound style fit how I want the game to be, so less “horror”. There’s a variety of depressing, hopeless and sometimes hopeful music, but still the occasional unnerving ambience.
The download includes a to-do list and attributions list.

RRFSounds.zip

[JazzGuru]

Great to see this progressing at speed now.

That looks really sweet, pip12345. I can’t wait to use it, once it’s complete…

[Chezzo]

Awesome, pip12345. I added your sounds to the github page, as well as added new melee weapon misses and hits.

http://chezzo.com/cdda/ChestHoleSoundSet.zip

The music though, I thought the music in my set is legal, but now I do not think so. There was a contest in this very forum that was to put music in the game. But some of their links are broken.

I emailed GlyphGryph, and he is trying to find them, but said they were on an old computer. Does anyone else have those music files?

Malkeus: question for you, chezzo: did you make any changes to your soundset, or just link to them? I noticed the filesize didn’t change

I just didnt upload it! Fixed now.

[pip12345]

It’s nice to see everything shaping up now.
I hope we can at least manage to get some sort of completed soundpack up for the experimentals within 1 - 2 months time.

Just a heads up though: make sure to read up a bit on the creative commons licenses and the requirements for each different license and how to correctly credit everyone.
Many sounds use different kinds of licenses which will allow you to edit / not edit them and will require you to note them down in different ways (I just stick to a single way of noting down attributions in a way that will cover almost all CC licenses)

CC-BY 3.0, CC-CC0 and CC-BY-NC 3.0 (and a couple of others) all require you to write down the name the author gave the file, the license used by the sound, the filename you renamed it as, the author and the link to the download page of the sound.

Some licenses also require you to indicate if you’ve changed them.

Just make sure to properly credit or else it’s technically not legal to use the sounds. It would be a huge bummer to figure out you’ve done the attributions wrong when you’re halfway or almost done with a soundpack.
We all know it’s a huge chore, but sadly it’s necessary

[kevin.granade]

Regarding CC licenses, keep in mind NC and ND are not ok for inclusion.
NC would render the whole project NC, which is unacceptable, and the sound code programatically modifies sounds, so ND doesn’t work.

[Chezzo]

Some of the stuff never worked for me, like danger music and the hulk music and such, and that was kind of disheartening, not knowing what worked and what didn’t.

But, when someone suggested I set the danger music to Highway to the Dangerzone, it made me look in the debug file, and I found I had added an extra comma and that was breaking everything after the error.

So now it all works! Same url, didn’t want to mess up peoples’ links.

I am psyched! I will go work on the legal version of the soundset, now.

[stk2008]

Ah wow chezzo that would be awesome to have more working sounds

[Lanceo90]

Hmm, the download links aren’t working for me, even using the Game Launcher to try to download it. It gets stuck 108.1KB out of 71.9MB.

[MarcoVGnG]

same here at 68.3Ko

[Necrosia]

I’m using ChestHole’s soundpack and loving it, but I’d like to re-add menu navigation sounds. However, it won’t work. I’ve added the sound, added its entry in the json, but it simply will not play. No sound plays for menu navigation. I can replace the navigation sound of the Basic soundpack and it works, but not ChestHole’s.

[StopSignal]

Hmm, might you show me the jsons? I might be able to fix it.