Can't get EVA_SilosNeeded to work

Kamuix · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 5:53 pm Post subject: Can't get EVA_SilosNeeded to work

This is my code:

eva.ini:

110=EVA_SilosNeeded

[EVA_SilosNeeded]
Text=Silos Needed.
;Russian=EVASilos
;Allied=ceva105
Priority= IMPORTANT
Report=EVASilos

sound.ini:

1184=EVASilos

[EVASilos]
Sounds=silond
Control=random interrupt
Volume=95

sound file silond was put in audio.bag wav file converted to IMA ADPCM

Thanks for any help, the silos already work perfectly other than when they get full no sound or text displayed

Kik0u · Civilian **Joined**: 17 May 2014 **Location**: France

You need only a code in evamd.ini

Code:

110=EVA_SilosNeeded ; in your list

[EVA_SilosNeeded]
Text=Silos Needed.
Russian=csof156
Allied=ceva156
Yuri=cyur156

and put your different EVA voice (for each side) in audiomd.mix

EVA voice are in ;

Code:

Wave format
48000 Hz
16 bit signed
Mono

And not forgot put this code in your refinery

Code:

Refinery.UseStorage=yes

deathreaperz · Commander **Joined**: 20 May 2013 **Location**: Indonesia

I'm just correcting Kik0u's

Kik0u wrote:

and put your different EVA voice (for each side) in audiomd.mix

Not recommended, just put it in expandmd or ecachemd

Kik0u wrote:

EVA voice are in ;

Code:

Wave format
48000 Hz
16 bit signed
Mono

22050Hz, 32bit, Mono

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:58 pm Post subject:

The internal WAV player reads and plays any WAV you feed it to, as long as it's either PCM or IMA ADPCM format and has less channels than 3. Bit depth and frequency does not matter.

This even applies to the bag format. Older XCC Mixers had issues with some formats (like stereo samples) being one source of the myth that the game is picky about the properties of the audio it's given to.

The other cause is Ares's loose WAV feature, which itself is a shortcoming - the actual code enforces a bag header for the samples, and that's why loose sounds have to be in 22 kHz PCM 16 bit mono format. I repeat: this is a limit made by the Ares feature implementation not affecting bag or EVA at all.

The original files also were 22 khz 16 bit depth files anyway - 32 bit 22 khz files are a joke, Reaperz.

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Kamuix · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:43 am Post subject:

Thanks guys i had already did it deathreaperz way and the sound works but the 'Text=Silos Needed.' isn't displayed

I just converted through the xccmixer to IMA ADPCM and dragged the old gdi 'silosneeded' voice from TS into the mix.

Does anyone know if there's anyway to get text to display? not that it's displayed with other things said in RA2 so it's not that important

ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

Graion Dilach wrote:

The other cause is Ares's loose WAV feature, which itself is a shortcoming - the actual code enforces a bag header for the samples, and that's why loose sounds have to be in 22 kHz PCM 16 bit mono format. I repeat: this is a limit made by the Ares feature implementation not affecting bag or EVA at all.

If you ask me, its lousy implementation, shoulda had some kinda reading function to parse the wav header and turn it to the appropriate header but thats I suppose less fast than forcing a default that does no checking what so ever.

Heck, at the least it coulda been ima than pcm...

deathreaperz · Commander **Joined**: 20 May 2013 **Location**: Indonesia

Kamuix wrote:

Thanks guys i had already did it deathreaperz way and the sound works but the 'Text=Silos Needed.' isn't displayed

Your welcome, the text is not for a warning text in the top left corner

Kamuix wrote:

Does anyone know if there's anyway to get text to display? not that it's displayed with other things said in RA2 so it's not that important

I'm not sure but in a single player, you can, and i don't know exactly how. Remember critical structure on mission? It's using text trigger

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MasterHaosis · General **Joined**: 01 Nov 2010 **Location**: Serbia

Kamuix wrote:

but the 'Text=Silos Needed.' isn't displayed

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ares/+spec/text-message-for-silos-needed

I already wrote request for that some time ago, and hopefully AlexB will bring that.

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Kamuix · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 11:49 pm Post subject:

Ahh interesting ^ thanks for letting me know