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[Cowboy_christo]

Anyone know how to give a npc another sound set? I cant seem to do it via shadowkeeper and i hate manually touching my install unless im sure of what im doing.

[Bhryaen]

Cowboy_christo wrote...
Anyone know how to give a npc another sound set? I cant seem to do it via shadowkeeper and i hate manually touching my install unless im sure of what im doing.

I was more interested in learning how to give my own character different soundsets, so I looked into it. In the process I learned that you can also give the soundset to NPCs. If you have the soundset files you want already in your "Sounds" folder (or wherever), you simply need to copy them, (maybe paste elsewhere where you can make changes safely,) rename them for the proper NPC, and then plop them in your override folder. The only tricky part is the naming since you'll need an exact game-recognizable name for it to apply to the specific NPC. It may be simply the first 5 letters of the name- and to change NPC portraits is an equivalent process of renaming and override plopping- but I don't know, haven't tried. I like the existing NPC soundsets, so...

Searching online for a few seconds I found this old thread elsewhere with the same question and answer but more details...

[EDIT: And just to preempt some other related questions, if you don't actually have the soundset you want for the NPC in your Sounds folder you can either find one online (there are plenty out there, but only maybe 10-20% at most are worth it) or use an extractor program like Near Infinity to find the soundset files of an NPC you'd prefer and simply extract them to a "safe" folder (or directly to the override folder, but since you need to rename them, best you keep it out at first), look for the soundset files of the NPC you're trying to change and note the name, change the name of the extracted NPC's files accordingly, and (then) put them in the override folder. (Or in the Sounds folder so you can use them...)

Note that when you change the name you need to leave the last letter or number since that is how the soundset files are organized. BG soundsets extend from a to z, but BG2 use a to z, 0 to 9, and "_". Thus changing Kagain's voiceset to be used by Imoen would be something like:

kagaina
kagainb
kagainc
(etc)
to

imoena
imoenb
imoenc
(etc)
Editing the files is a tad more complicated, requiring (at least for BG-native sounds) a sound converter that can change the sounds from WAVC to WAV (since WAVC seems indecipherable to nearly all the sound editors out there), then do the sound editing, then reconvert to WAVC, and then the override/ sounds folder plopping.

Modifié par Bhryaen, 27 février 2011 - 09:33 .