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Ambient Sound Mod for DW released.

Description:
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Detailed stereo ambient sound mod for SCS Dangerous Waters. designed for all platforms in DW, and works in conjunction with the DW music. To alter the volume level of the installed ambience mod adjust the 'Music' slider within DW's options. Known issues: none

EDIT: now available from the Subguru site download section.
http://www.subguru.com/

- enjoy

(dial-up downloads not recommended)

[porphy]

Great, I'm downloading now. You are really plugging away on mod work these day Finiteless, thanks

Cheers Porphy

[Snakeeyes]

Hey Finiteless,

Are the three levels of the audio (norm, high, ehigh) designed by Sonalysts for those who want to change their audio settings? If I only play on extremely high can I simply download the ehigh and the full?

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[Bill Nichols]

Mirrored at my site. Thanks, Finiteless!

[Lane]

Thank's Finiteless,
Download your mod last night the ambein sound mod
Well at lease I can listen to mod before installing with windows
Meda player Wav files Sounds good, Got them ready to go
in the e-high, High, and Normal folder and as aways back them up
When you back up files do you change names or just make a backup
folder I have just been making a folder called backup and copy file
to folder? guess that's ok.
Thank's Fin, for the sound mods
Cheers
Lane

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Yeah, that's all you need to do Lane. I normally move my backups on a separate hard drive (too easy to over-write or lose otherwise). I have three, one fast boot-up drive, one simming drive and one specifically for backing-up programs, files and info from the first two drives (plus of course, I eventually burn backups to CDs so I can get them off that backup hard drive).

One thing not to do for this ambience mod is to simply rename the music files and leave them in the original fold, because DW with still utilise any wave file remaining within the DW music folders, irrespective of name; i.e. DW will just randomly select a .wav file from the relevant folder, so make sure you move your music file backups to another folder.

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[Lane]

Finiteless,

Got all your sound mods installed.
Do you think the new patch will change them?
Don't have any other mods installed just your's for now.
As a Rookie Do you think I should install your Sub noise
Level mod I think that's what you call it sound's all greek to me.
Or just wait on new patch?
Lane

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The sound files will not be altered by the first patch (according to the change-file list).

The database mod will be altered by the patch, and I'll have to make a new database version after the patch is released. I can do that fairly quickly as I have the relevant settings documented.

The current database mod is much better (in a 'realism' sense, not necessarily in a 'balanced' for game-play purposes sense) than the standard database, give it a try, it can't really hurt to try it if you have backed-up.

The patch will overwrite some of the database files.

(At the moment Amizaur is fomulating some awesome AI doctrine behaviour modifications, I've been trying them out and they are kicking butt! I guess he'll have a doctrine realism pack out in due time, which will complement the realism database edit ... I reckon in about six months a modded DW will really sizzle)

[Barleyman]

About the sound levels..

It seems to me that the missile launch and countermeasure SFX in OHP is way too loud wrt other sounds. I have the speech responses set to 10, sfx to 4 and still the missile launch is really too loud for late-night game sessions, if I have set the speech level to "comfortable listening level".

Especially nasty coming from active sonar station where you want to actually hear the pings!

[finiteless]

Point taken, but also keep in mind that actual rocket and missile launches are incredibly loud in practice, and not the sort of thing you try to be quiet about, thus as a 'realism' sound image, these are in context with all of the other sounds (except the missiles should be even louder, perhaps ).

For playing late at night, I have a volume button on my keyboard (most do these days), so when I suspect there's soon to be a loud bang or missile launch, I can drop the volume a bit, then raise it again for sonar etc.

Cheers.

[Barleyman]

WRT clicking noises.

Your problem is that DW sound code does not like samples which do not start/stop at 0. Something old farts might be familiar with from Gravis Ultrasound..

Easiest way to fix that is to do a fade in/out. I just fixed (most) clicks in the russian voice pack with audacity and the fade in/out plugin, just add a 100ms fade.. Better yet, you can process 100-odd wavs in one go. Some stubborn clicks are still present in the adin, dva tri bla bla number samples so perhaps there is a glitch in the sound edit too.

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