Saradush Orcs

[SimDing0]

In Saradush, there are a ton of orcs and orogs which say thinks like "I've a blade with your name on it" in human voices OVER THE TOP of their orc battle cries (hardcoded to the animation). Something to fix?

[SimDing0]

VVPARIS.CRE has a male soundset.

[Kish]

In Saradush, there are a ton of orcs and orogs which say thinks like "I've a blade with your name on it" in human voices OVER THE TOP of their orc battle cries (hardcoded to the animation). Something to fix?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Considering how stupid the "every creature that has a particular animation makes the same noises" thing is, in any part of this gets changed, it should be the orc grunts and not the lines. However, I can't see anything inappropriate or buggy about the characters both grunting and saying lines.

[SimDing0]

It really does sound like shit.

[Ghreyfain]

The fix for this is in Tutu. It's what we did to solve the echoing Ogrillons, and the Flesh Golems that were convinced messing with them was messing with you.

 

// SUMMONED MONSTERS AND M*.2da SOUNDS FILES

COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP GLOB ~M.*2da~ ~override~

REPLACE_TEXTUALLY ~.*~ ~ ~

IF ~TWITCH~

BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

 

Of, of course, this'd blank the noises made by all the monsters, unless you manually added their sounds to their respective .cre files, as was done in BG1.

[devSin]

That is so bad. So very bad.

 

The proper thing to do is remove the inappropriate sounds. The orcs in Saradush have their own soundset, which should be used.

[CamDawg]

Yeah, we should work on implementing soundsets from their cre files instead of the M....2da file.

[SimDing0]

Why? The M....2da file is a good way of avoiding, say, orcs talking like humans, which isn't far below orcs talking like both humans and orcs together in terms of stupidity. It may be a lovely idea in principle, but it's pants ingame.

[SimDing0]

// Standardise naming of Gromnir's troops

STRING_SET 71239 ~Il-Khan Soldier~

STRING_SET 71240 ~Il-Khan Soldier~

 

// Orcs sound like orcs

COPY_EXISTING ~sarculto.cre~ ~override~

~sarorc01.cre~ ~override~

~saroro01.cre~ ~override~

~sarrein1.cre~ ~override~

~sartro01.cre~ ~override~

~sartro03.cre~ ~override~

SAY 0xa4 #-1

SAY 0xc8 #-1

SAY 0xec #-1

SAY 0xf0 #-1

SAY 0x10c #-1

SAY 0x198 #-1

 

// Silent Sapper

COPY_EXISTING ~SEWDUE02.cre~ ~override~

SAY 0xa4 #4940

SAY 0xec #12584

SAY 0xf0 #12585

SAY 0x10c #4939

SAY 0x110 #4940

 

// Make dwarves dwarves, not humans

COPY_EXISTING ~sardw01.cre~ ~override~

~sardw01.cre~ ~override~

WRITE_BYTE 0x272 4

[devSin]

~sarculto.cre~ ~override~

Skip this one. The cultists were supposed to be Bhaalspawn or just dupes; they weren't part of the army (and aren't even included in the game).

 

EDIT: Ooh, I see you simply removed the associated sounds. Nevermind.

 

Incidentally, WRITE_LONG 0xffffffff is preferable to SAY #-1 (0xffffffff will evaluate to -1, but -1 will evaluate to 2147483647).

[SimDing0]

So... why not fix them anyway?

[CamDawg]

// name fixes
COPY_EXISTING ~sarbul04.cre~ ~override~
             ~sarbul05.cre~ ~override~
 PATCH_IF (SOURCE_SIZE > 0x2d3) THEN BEGIN // protects against invalid files
   WRITE_LONG 0x08 68792
   WRITE_LONG 0x0c 68792
 END
 BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

// Orcs sound like orcs; blanks human sounds
COPY_EXISTING ~sarculto.cre~ ~override~
             ~sarorc01.cre~ ~override~
             ~saroro01.cre~ ~override~
             ~sarrein1.cre~ ~override~
             ~sartro01.cre~ ~override~
             ~sartro03.cre~ ~override~
 WRITE_LONG 0xa4 0xffffffff
 WRITE_LONG 0xc8 0xffffffff
 WRITE_LONG 0xec 0xffffffff
 WRITE_LONG 0xf0 0xffffffff
 WRITE_LONG 0x10c 0xffffffff
 WRITE_LONG 0x198 0xffffffff
 BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

// Silent Sapper (uses same soundset as sewdue01)
COPY_EXISTING ~sewdue02.cre~ ~override~
 SAY 0xa4 #4940
 SAY 0xec #12584
 SAY 0xf0 #12585
 SAY 0x10c #4939
 SAY 0x110 #4940
 BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

 

The two dwarves are fixed in the racial fixes (one was already covered).