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Since there are no really helpfull tutorials on adding custom audio files in-game yet, and since I have succesfully done it...I have decided to write a tutorial about it.

(1)- In order to add a custom audio file in-game, it must be in .WAV format.

(2)- Also, the custom audio must be Mono not Stereo.

(If you are not sure whether your file is Stereo or Mono you can download a nice freeware (free) audio editor called "Audacity". It is available from the company website here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows

-In audacity you can remove sections of your audio clip, as-well as many other things which I don't have time to list here. Also, I will not describe how to use audacity here...I leave that to you. (don't worry though...It's pretty easy to figure out.)

NOTE: If you encounter a problem in Audacity where you can't seem to change anything...make sure that the audio clip you have loaded isn't currently paused...Because when paused, audacity won't let you delete sections or do very much else...(took me awhile to figure that out)

To make your sound file Mono if it is in Stereo:

Ok, in Audacity:

To the left of your sound file (the part with the blue spikes)
There is a control panel that should have the name of your sound file as a drop down menu. Drop the menu down and half-way down the menu there should be "Split Stereo Track"...press this, then next to the drop-down menu (to the left) is a (X) button that deletes the selected Track (either top or bottom)...press the "close" button for the track that sounds worse (either the top or the bottom). That should do it, just select "export as WAV" to your location of choice, then you're done in Audacity.

(3)- Once you have your audio clip in Mono and saved as a .WAV, you will need to extract the .BIG files: Audio.BIG and EnglishAudio.BIG ...They should go into their default directories:

              

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Audio -------The Battle For Middle-earth\data\audio EnglishAudio-The Battle For Middle-earth\lang\english\data\audio

(4)- Next you need to copy your custom audio file and paste one copy in each of the sub-folders:

              

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"The Battle For Middle-earth\data\audio\Sounds"

as well as

              

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"The Battle For Middle-earth\data\audio\Speech"

and

              

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"The Battle For Middle-earth\lang\english\data\audio\Sounds"

(5)- Next we need to add our custom audio clip to the Asset.dat file in the Main BFME directory... I trust you know how to do this.

(6)- Ok, now we should be done with moving the files...next we need to tell the game who, what, and where our new audio clip is. For that we will need to edit the INI files located here: (you will need to extract the INI.BIG file first, if you haven't already)


              

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The INI files -----The Battle For Middle-earth\data\ini

Alright, first we need to edit two INI files called: Voice.ini and SpecialEffects.ini

You will need to add the following: (just replace my sound file names with yours)

              

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;---------------------------------------------------------- ;------------------Voice.ini------------------------------- ;---------------------------------------------------------- AudioEvent muwitchking_myhour Sounds = muwitchking_myhour Volume = 150 MinVolume = 125 Type = world player voice SubmixSlider = voice End

              

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;------------------------------------- ;----------SoundEffects.ini----------- ;------------------------------------- AudioEvent muwitchking_myhour Sounds = muwitchking_myhour Priority = high Limit = 1 Volume = 150 MinRange = 500 MaxRange = 1000 Type = world shrouded everyone SubmixSlider = SoundFX End

Next we will need to tell the game WHEN it should play our audio clip...There are several ways of doing this, so I will post the one I used (which worked) and several other possible methods (probably will work, but haven't been tried by me)


You can edit the "CommandButton.ini" and add this: (this is what I did for my mod)
-The sound should play as soon as you hit the special power activator button...

You need to add this to your Power:

              

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"UnitSpecificSound = muwitchking_myhour"

(just replace my audio file name with your)

This is what the CommandButton code should look like (give or take) after you add that UnitSpecificSound:

              

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CommandButton Command_WitchKingWordOfPower Command = SPECIAL_POWER SpecialPower = SpecialAbilityWitchKingWordOfPower SpecialAbilityWitchKingHeroMode ; Options = TextLabel = CONTROLBAR:WKWordOfPower ButtonImage = HPWitchKingHour ButtonBorderType = ACTION DescriptLabel = CONTROLBAR:ToolTipWKWordOfPower AutoAbility = Yes PresetRange = 120.0 UnitSpecificSound = muwitchking_myhour InPalantir = Yes End

Several other places you can add your custom Audio files are:



(Specific Unit/Hero voices)

In your Heroes file (aragorn.ini for example) there is a section called:

              

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; *** AUDIO Parameters ***;

This section contains all the regular speech that the charactors say: "Can I have some Bacon?"-Pippin

So, to add or replace the audio clips that the charactors say you would change this:

              

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; *** AUDIO Parameters ***; VoiceAmbushed = AragornVoiceAmbush VoiceAttack = AragornVoiceAttack VoiceAttackStructure = AragornVoiceAttackBuilding

To maybe:

              

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; *** AUDIO Parameters ***; VoiceAmbushed = MyBetterAragornVoiceAmbush VoiceAttack = GimliVoiceAttack VoiceAttackStructure = MyAudioClipVoiceAttackBuilding

(just add your voice clip name in front of the "Voice_____")

NOTE: you might need to add your Audio clip name into "Voice.ini or Speech.ini", I haven't tried this so I don't know for sure.



If you wanted your Audio Clip to play durring an FX (say durring Word Of Power) You might change this file:


              

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FX_List.ini

-You can add this to your special effect to make the sound play when the effect plays:

              

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Sound Name = muwitchking_myhour End

So then your FX file should look like this:

              

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FXList FX_WKAnduril ParticleSystem Name = WKAnduril AttachToObject = Yes AttachToBone = B_SWORDBONE End Sound Name = muwitchking_myhour End End

If these don't make the voice do what you want it to do...play around with the different audio files, there are several others that use voices: EVA.ini / MiscAudio.ini / Speech.ini / Voice.ini / SpecialEffects.ini

If you are looking to add music files to the game, it should be very similar...but I haven't done anything with music files so I can't help you much there. The only big difference I can think of are: Music.ini probably has to refrence your Audio clip, and there is probably another file that tells the game when to play the Song...

That should do it for adding your custom audio clip in-game...Any questions can be directed to me or to the 3rd Age forums...


Enjoy!