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Replacing Sounds

Requirements

Note

CSDK 12 now ships with a Billy Audio Template to skip decompilation. Use “Duplicate Addon” on a addon template in the CFG Tool to make an editable version of the addon.

Finding the Sound

You can find the sound the need by opening game/citadel/pak01_dir.vpk, then:

  • If your sound is used in a ability/hero, go into heroes.vdata, then your hero’s name, ability in abilities.vdata and look for a soundevent: flag. Punkgoat’s Blasted for example uses Punkgoat.Blasted.Lp. Ability/Hero soundevents are usually stored in soundevents/hero/heroname.vsndevts_c. Compiled Sound should be in the vsnd_files string.

  • If your sound is a VO file (voiceline), go into scripts/talker/ and find in .vrr response rules files a rule you’re looking for. The rest goes as above.

Replacing the Sound

Then, navigate into the direction of the sound and decompile it into your addon. The result filepath and filename MUST match the location where the original file was.

Replace the sound with your own.

Compiling

With your CSDK 12 tools open, find your sound file in the Asset Browser, right click on it and select “Recompile > Full”.

Making a Looping Sound

To make a looping sound, you need to have a encoding.txt file near your source sounds. For this method to work, your bin files must have lame_enc.dll present, and the files must be of the .wav extension.

The encoding.txt file must contain this:

encoding.txt
<!-- kv3 encoding:text:version{e21c7f3c-8a33-41c5-9977-a76d3a32aa0d} format:generic:version{7412167c-06e9-4698-aff2-e63eb59037e7} -->
{
	compress = 
	{
		format = "mp3"
		minbitrate = 128
		maxbitrate = 320
		vbr = 1
	}
	files =
	[
		{
			fileName = "mysoundname.wav"
			loop =
			{    
				loop_start_time = 0
				loop_end_time =  11.428526
			}
		},
		{
			fileName = "mysoundname2.wav"
			loop =
			{    
				loop_start_time = 0
				loop_end_time =  4.5
			}
		},
	]
}

loop_start_time and loop_end_time must be in seconds. If you want to use sample time, it can be done with loop_start_sample and loop_end_sample.

Loop Sample Time
{
				fileName = "mysoundname3.wav"
				loop =
				{    
					loop_start_sample = 443016
					loop_end_sample =  3810374
				}
},

Then after that, compile your sounds. While CSDK 12 is open, any change to the encoding.txt file will recompile the referenced sounds.

There is also a preferred option for compression provided with the encoding.txt file above. If the compress block is present in the encoding.txt file, then every sound near it will be compiled with the specified compression settings (theoretically if you want to compress every sound in the addon, encoding.txt can be placed in the sounds folder), which is good for keeping file sizes low (Example file had it’s file size reduced from 19.7 MB to 1.97MB).

Compressed sounds preserve defined loop points.

compress = 
{
	format = "mp3"
	minbitrate = 128
	maxbitrate = 320
	vbr = 1
}

Packing

See Packing an Addon

Useful Commands

soundinfo - list every sound that is currently playing

stopsound - stop every sound that is currently playing

snd_showstart true - when a sound starts, it will print its path to the console

play path/to/sound.vsnd - play a sound

snd_sos_start_soundevent soundevent_name - play a soundevent

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