Changing Geralts sound set ?

[amenda]

Changing Geralts sound set ?

Apologies if this is the wrong place for questions, but I wondered if anyone has figured out how to mess around with sounds? I've been doing alot of experimenting, and though I can use Chaosmonkey's easy way to play with a female model, I cant really play a female game with Geralts manly combat sounds and dialogue voice. Changing the combat sounds does not look to hard, just replacing the .wavs would work for that finally, but silencing him in all his dialogue so just the subtitles comes up sounds rather trickier. I seem to recall this was possible with KOTOR and Jade empire, but in those games the main character was silent during dialogue so it was just a matter of changing the other sounds. However you could silence other npc's by assinging them a different soundset. They would use that soundsets voice during combat, but remained silent during dialogue.Any luck with this?Thanks

 

[username_2065048]

I'm fairly sure that the sound files can be replaced with dummies (same codec, wavelength, blank data). Voices are in .ogg format. Looking at the voices folder I would suggest copying around tmgr_712_1061.ogg , it is 5.23k so it is tiny and it doesn't make a single sound when opened up 0 seconds. I doubt very much that game will complain if you copy this into the override directory renamed to imitate the grlt_xxx files.PS Sound is most definitely not my bag - but I've used this method to make own quick and dirty no-intros mods for myself over the years Typical isn't it the first game of this type where they record the main characters voice and they are going to end up redoing all of it anyway and everyone wants to get rid of it :dead: Mass Effect just redifined to the world what it is to record dialogues for a game. Voices for everything with professional actors Lance Henrikson, Keith David etc. It is sweeet 8) .

 

[amenda]

Looks like the hard way is the only way here.There are about 1000 grlt.xxx sound files. Do you know a program that could replace all their contents with tmgr_712 's blank ogg? Alternatively, a renamer that could rename from a mass of files. I think it would take about a week to manually name all those soundfiles with the blank!Ive been scouring the net but I can only seem to find text file replacers.

 

[username_2065048]

Copy all of your Geralt sound files into one easy to find directory. Open up a DOS box, navigate yourself to this directory. Type "dir /b>filelist.txt" . This will make a file within that directory called filelist.txt listing all the files. Then make yorself a batch file copy across your dummy file. Me - I use excel for this kind of thing. Import filelist.txt as data - so it is all in column A. Add a new column so the filelist is column B. In your new A column put yourself your "copy tmgr_712_1061.ogg " and most importantly a space afterwards. Copy this down all 6800 odd entries. Then in column C put the formula =concatenate(A1,B1)This means that in column C you will have your nice neat copy instruction. Then copy all of column C - paste SPECIAL the values into the D column. Then you can safely wipe out columns A, B and C and be left with just your super dupa copy routine. Save this as a txt file and then rename it to a .bat. Put your dummy file in the same directory as your Geralt files and let it do it's business.Took 2 minutes to do it and 10 minutes to explain - phew! :-\Included the text file for you zipped up - should save you a week of typing . Take a look at it - then rename it to a bat and let it do its stuff.Had to upload to mediafire instead http://www.mediafire.com/?2yupbslnytm

 

[amenda]

Thanks Chaosmonkey.I would have responded sooner but was not able to get online the past week. I basically did what you said though it took a few hours poking around the internet to figure out how to do it on my own. Played a very nice game with the dryad as the main character. Everytime someone said "White Wolf" I just pictured in my head as "Forest wolf" Worked pretty well. Of course I sided with the Scioatel. She works quite nicely as a speedy dextrous fighter and looked very nice in all the cut scenes. The only problem was that the 5000 gold "excellent" set of armour changed me back into Geralt and I could not figure out how to rectify that. Since I was playing a high dex/dodge character though it wasn't a huge deal. Raven's armour did not change me into Geralt, so it seems there is something with the middling armour that overwrites your method. Not sure what.

 

[username_2065048]

Just need to make sure that you swap over all 6 files cr_witch1 through to 6. Each one corresponds to a set of armour.

 

[shade67]

I had the same problem with the armor. What I did was copy the cm witch files from the Bruxa dl, opened cm_witch 1-6 and changed them to point to cr_naked3 cm_naked3 and problem solved.