Engine Sounds

Well, I went looking around attempting to change the car engine sound, And found this only audio file named cheetah_engine.ogg Now, I converted a MP3 Engine sound file to .ogg, Named it the same, and overwrit the old file, And now the game thinks there is no file there and gives me an error, Was wondering if anyone know's how to get it to accept a new audio file?

 

I've not looked into the sounds at all, but I can offer a few ideas.

Media files often include more than just media. Often times there's metadata included. Maybe the game will throw an error if the metadata doesn't match up.

Maybe the audio in the ogg is formatted a certain way, and your file is not what the game is expecting.

Here's what I suggest, make a backup of the original file, and leave it where you won't touch it. Open in up in a program like Audacity. Make a minor change to some part of the file. Because I'm not sure what will work and what won't, I wouldn't start by moving stuff around on the timeline. Shift the pitch or pinch the volume in a place. Save it. Try it.

I would love to try this myself to see what would happen, but alas ... it's bed time.

 

Well as I'll see the engine sounds need a fix because all of them sound like a V8

 

I've done it a few times now. I didn't know others were interested in this, here's how you do it (well how I do it anyway).

1. Find good audio source
2. Edit audio into 1s chunk that can loop nicely
3. save in mono 44100hz 16 bit
4. open in VLC
5. Convert to .ogg vorbis
6. set bitrate to something reasonable for the audio (original file used ~86kbps)
7. select 44100hz and mono
8. export and overwrite cheeta_engine.ogg

Now you can actually just add in extra sounds rather than overwriting the cheeta_engine.ogg, to do this you do need to modify a few of the scripts/lua's to get it to work nicely.
Have fun and let us know how you go

 

Thanks! Got it to work, Just sounds like crap lol, need to play with it more