Replacing Weapon Sounds Doesn't Work

[Touma]

Hello there, OC Community. My friend and I wanted to customize our Smg1 firing sounds, so we did like you do everywhere else, drop in the right sounds folder, make sure all the file names are correct, etc. Then we went on our way. But when we got in-game, they were still the default SMG sounds. No matter where we looked or what we did, we couldn't change them. Are the mounts overriding the weapon sounds or is there another step we missed for OC? Thanks for reading.

[MaestraFénix]

Hello there, OC Community. My friend and I wanted to customize our Smg1 firing sounds, so we did like you do everywhere else, drop in the right sounds folder, make sure all the file names are correct, etc. Then we went on our way. But when we got in-game, they were still the default SMG sounds. No matter where we looked or what we did, we couldn't change them. Are the mounts overriding the weapon sounds or is there another step we missed for OC? Thanks for reading.

Hmm. The people who use skins doesnt have any problem. What games have you mounted? Is only the SMG, or is a scripted weapon?

[Touma]

It's only the smg1, and I have all the possible games mounted.

[Shana]

sound\weapons\smg1\smg1_pl_fire.wav

[Touma]

I even replaced that, and it did nothing.

[TESLA-X4]

Unlike other games/mods, it's a different file you need to replace (as W0rf0x said: sound/weapons/smg1/smg1_pl_fire.wav). This file is different fron the standard one in that the left channel is used when the sound is played closer, and the right channel is used when the sound is played further away. There are two ways you can do this:

1: Replace the actual file
This may require you to alter the file you intend to replace to work in the same way as the original (i.e. left and right channels) with an audio editor such as Audacity or GoldWave. Just take note that the mod uses a different sound (as mentioned above), so you'll need to change the filename to match up. If you do not have the capability to/want to modify the file, you can force the mod to use a different sound instead.

2: Change the soundscript to point to a different file
Open up scripts/game_sounds_weapons.txt with Notepad or an equivalent text editor and perform a search for Weapon_SMG1.Single. You should see something like this:

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"Weapon_SMG1.Single"
{
	"channel"		"CHAN_WEAPON"
	"volume"		"0.55"
	"soundlevel"		"SNDLVL_90db"
	"soundlevel"	"SNDLVL_GUNFIRE"
	"pitch"			"95,105"

	"wave"			"^weapons/smg1/smg1_pl_fire.wav"
}

Change ^weapons/smg1/smg1_pl_fire.wav to )weapons/smg1/smg1_fire1.wav (note the closing parenthesis in front of the string, that is used by the game to determine how the sound should be played), then save the file and close your text editor. You can now replace the sound file weapons/smg1/smg1_fire1.wav.

[Touma]

Thank you so much for showing me this method, changing the file did the trick. You're a lifesaver.