adding sounds to ra2

scoobmiester · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 26 Sep 2003

Here is a short tut on how to add sounds to RA2.

Requirements:
XCC MOD CREATOR/LAUNCHER
XCC MIX EDITOR(OPTIONAL)
XCC MIXER

1 Gather all yur sounds

2 open xcc mod creator

3 start a new project

4 click on the sounds tab, insert your sounds

5 save

6 go to the mod tab and click activate

it will generate an audio.bag and .idx

7 use xcc mix editor and put the audio bag and idx in the language.mix

8 open the sound.ini and insert your sounds
example:

list
280=Explosion06 ;1 animation

stats
[Explosion06]
Sounds=gexp06a
Control= interrupt
Limit=3
FShift= -10 10
VShift=20

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Mike · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:30 pm Post subject:

Never edit the original mixes place it in another mix file

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scoobmiester · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 26 Sep 2003

i always have backups so i dont have any problems

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SeaMan · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject:

But I don't like having multiple copies of 250 mb files wasting space in RA2 dir. And this is not a really a tutorial. It is more like a question how/where to put new sounds.

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scoobmiester · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 26 Sep 2003

it is a tut on how to add sounds to ra2

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject:

this tutorial works, but it's not good for those who wanna distribute their red alert 2 for the following reasons:

- mods get extremely big even if the changes are minimal
- it screws up the original game files

A good mod must never touch on the original mix files...

Mike · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject:

on the topic of sounds can you also just put them in the directory?

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SeaMan · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject:

You can't.

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Mike · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:56 am Post subject:

then how am i supposed to add a few sounds without adding a 35 megabytes?

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DeeZeL · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:40 pm Post subject:

put them in xcc mod creator...my mod is originally 75mb (because of the frikkin audio.bag and audio.idx files #Mad

) but it compresses it to 4.45 mb.

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Mike · Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:06 pm Post subject:

well my mod is for 1.000 so what are the alternatives

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z51aj17 · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: audio.bag/idx

why dont you just use XCC Mixer, open IT'S Sound Editor, drag in the sounds you want, hit ok, close XCC, copy audio.bag/idx into your mod?

(or would that make a difference?)

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Mike · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject:

that file is 35mb;)

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Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

z51aj17 wrote:

why dont you just use XCC Mixer, open IT'S Sound Editor, drag in the sounds you want, hit ok, close XCC, copy audio.bag/idx into your mod?

(or would that make a difference?)

that's ok if you don't release it for public download.

there is no point in giving people 35 MB of sound files that they already have on their computers, so people use XCC MOD CREATOR/LAUNCHER to just give people the files that are not in the original game.

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