Sonrat on 25/2/2005 at 18:34
I've been having difficulty playing back the sounds in the editor, so
I took closer look at the readme.doc, and noticed that they have
some sort of additional sound editing package that wasn't included
with the editor. It seems to imply that we'll be able to download
the extra sound stuff if we need it. Anyone heard anything else
about this?
Here's the section from the readme.doc:
What about editing your own conversations?
Doing this properly requires you to have the ability to add sounds to the game and edit the sound schemas. Since this is an even larger download than everything else combined, it is not included with the editor release. If you want the ability to edit your own conversations, you’ll need to download the additional sound editing package.
Shadowspawn on 25/2/2005 at 19:53
Is there any source of information on the contents of the various pieces of the mission and game files? Did the guys from DX-2 land ever get some of the stuff worked out?
I'd be willing to write some code to extract stuff from the modules, like sounds. Don't some of the Dx2 tools work on the T3 stuff?
Sorry, I haven't been following any of the newer editor stuff until recently. Of course, we're going to want to add sounds and conversations, so we'd better learn how to take the stuff apart.
Mandrake on 25/2/2005 at 22:07
Quote Posted by Shadowspawn
Is there any source of information on the contents of the various pieces of the mission and game files? Did the guys from DX-2 land ever get some of the stuff worked out?
I'd be willing to write some code to extract stuff from the modules, like sounds. Don't some of the Dx2 tools work on the T3 stuff?
Sorry, I haven't been following any of the newer editor stuff until recently. Of course, we're going to want to add sounds and conversations, so we'd better learn how to take the stuff apart.
DXIW Sound Drone can open and play the Thief3 sound files, I've used it for a long time to listen to the sounds of the game :) It claims to have an export function too, but I suspect it will only export one file at a time, which would be exceptionally tedious. Perhaps try contacting the author and see if its possible to make a version that will automatically extract all sounds ?
(
http://members.home.nl/m.r.visser/)
Rather than one person extracting all the sounds and then trying to distribute them (which would be a HUGE filesize, and have potential legal issues) the best idea might be to make a simple tool that anyone can run that will extract all the sounds out of their own legal copy of the game and install them in a format/location that the editor can then directly re-use for new missions....and a custom version of DXIW Sound Drone might be just the thing...
Shadowspawn on 25/2/2005 at 22:22
I'll contact the author and see if I can get some data structures, code, whatever's available. Thanks!
Sonrat on 25/2/2005 at 22:44
To export all the sounds at once:
select the first sound,
scroll to the bottom
hold down shift and select the last sound
right-click on a sound and choose extract or extract raw.
I've tried it and it appears to work.
Be patient there are a lot of files to extract.
It took at least 5 minutes.
Mandrake on 25/2/2005 at 23:26
Quote Posted by Sonrat
To export all the sounds at once:
select the first sound,
scroll to the bottom
hold down shift and select the last sound
right-click on a sound and choose extract or extract raw.
I've tried it and it appears to work.
Be patient there are a lot of files to extract.
It took at least 5 minutes.
What is the difference between extract and extract raw ?
And where does it save the extracted files ?
Sonrat on 26/2/2005 at 03:43
It appears they are extracted into the DX Sound Drone folder.
I'm guessing "Extract Raw" saves them out in their original format,
while just "Extract" converts to probably wave format.
Jadon on 26/2/2005 at 09:07
The DX sound Drone program can extract more that one object at a time I believe last time I checked.
heliocairo on 26/2/2005 at 10:10
Hello there, this is another application which can extract sounds from TDS and other formats.
Here is the link: (
http://www.volny.cz/nova-software/)
Hope it helps :D
