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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 SHOULD match the location where the original file was.

Replace the sound with your own.

Compiling

Compile the sound with your CSDK12 Tools open.

Packing

Useful Commands

stopsound - stop every sound that is currently playing

snd_showstart true - when a sound starts, it will print it’s 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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