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Title: Errrm. Voice.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 21, 2002, 01:27:17 pm

A thought occurs. Will we be extracting voice form HomeWorld, or recording our own.

Title: Errrm. Voice.
Post by: vadar_1 on October 21, 2002, 05:31:46 pm

Homeworld does have the basic "Acknolodged" crap, and as for the campaign text... you got the basics... but you'll need a lot more then that to bump it up to "FS2 quality". Now you have the daunting task of making your voice sound like the chick inside the mothership.

Title: Errrm. Voice.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on October 22, 2002, 01:57:04 pm

How would I extract the vioce from HW anyway, I've got the big file extracter, but what format is the audio in?

Title: Errrm. Voice.
Post by: elorran on October 22, 2002, 08:02:20 pm

music and sound files aren't stored in the big file, they are stored in separate file archives.  The sound file format is in a specially developed format by relic.  You need a plugin for winamp to be able to listen to these sound files.  The files are extracted with a program called Homesong.

Though you should be aware that due to a conflict of file extensions any version above winamp 2.76 has a codec conflict then trying to play certain types of these sound files.

The format is *.aff also *.aifr
AFF is also use for and apple sound format, hence the conflict.  So you need to rename all AFF extension to AIFR.  Or better still download and install a 2.76 version of winamp.

You should be able to find most of the stuff you need here...
http://www.a-fluffy.demon.co.uk/homeworld/downloads.html

The relic sound tools, the winamp plugin and the homesong extractor are the prime utils you want to download.

The reason you'll need the sound tools is because the plugin for winamp only player certain bitrate files in a normal manner.  Other bitrates sound like high pity squeals and crackles.  You will have to play around with the bitrate to get the files to sound right.

Now incase you hadn't guest, I have this subject covered already :)  However if you still feel the need to get the tools and have a play then I'll save you the trouble of searching for everthing and bundle it all together in on email sometime later this week.

Title: could you help?
Post by: Nuclear1 on October 28, 2002, 06:28:52 pm

Really cool tool link, Elorran. Could you tell me exactly how to use it? I've got WINamp 3 and relic sound tools d/l'd, now I can't figure out how to play the files.
          Thanks in advance

             Nuclear 1

Title: Errrm. Voice.
Post by: Farsight on November 10, 2002, 07:38:18 am

testing 123