[CommanderDJ]

hey guys,
I'm making a standalone mission without any mods and I want to use the cue_voice.wav file for my message sounds, but when I do so it seems to affect the headanis, as they appear for like a fraction of a second before disappearing. Is this because cue_voice.wav is too short a sound file or something?

Thanks.

[General Battuta]

Your diagnosis is unfortunately correct.

[CommanderDJ]

. I'll just add some silence to it in audacity and distribute it with the mission then.

[Galemp]

I thought there was an empty_msg.wav in the VPs for just that purpose?

[CommanderDJ]

Not that I can find. Nothing plays in game when using that for the message wav file. It's been distributed with various mods I'm pretty sure (like Vassago's Dirge) but doesn't seem to be in the VPs.

[Qent]

Check in data/freddocs/.

Your mission would become a mod though.

[CommanderDJ]

Not necessarily. If I just include the file with the mission, people could just chuck it in data/sounds and it would work. It's what I'm doing while building the mission.

[Qent]

I feel like people and The E would be weirded out by that. I could be wrong though.

[Shivan Hunter]

Heh, I used to have several versions for different message lengths.

Putting stuff (either missions or sounds) in the main data/ folder, even if it wouldn't technically break anything, is hardly standard procedure for releasing stuff. Anything that depends on cue_voice being a ridiculously short wav file could potentially be broken- the possibility for error in this one case is quite small but if it can break anything it should be in a mod folder.