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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Sound/Story Zones - Help Needed

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DocSpoc
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I posted this here instead of FPSC bugs, because it's probably not a bug, it's probably down to my own stupididy, or maybe I overlooked something. Anyways, I need some help with sound zones and/or story zones, here's the failing process that I try.

Record your voice on audacity; make an effect to make it lower.
Save it as a .WAV file.
Open FPSC, make sound zone in small map, and make sure it's set to play the sound I recorded 5 mins ago.
Go over the sound zone, realise it doesn't work, and fail to see the problem.

Is there something I'm missing? Do I have to change a script from one of the default ones? Does it simply not work in Test Mode? Does the sound zone not work with files above 1mb?

To Mods; if this is in the wrong place, please move it, thanks.

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Freakon
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2009 12:29 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2009 12:30
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Can you post a screenshot of the sound/story zone properties?? and which version of FPSC are you using?

Make sure you pull the property window out so we can see all the file paths.
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There's the screenie. I'm using FPSC 1.15. The sound I'm trying to play is 25.4 MB, and is 1.15 mins long.

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nikas
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when i record my voice into wav file and then use it in a sound zone it dont work then i just re-convert it to wav and then it works again......

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Lewis
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2009 23:39 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2009 06:00
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Try saving the sound as an ogg. Not only this reduces filesize, it may work.
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DocSpoc
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Audacity doesn't allow saving as an .ogg file. Know any good, free, converters?

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Conjured Entertainment
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 05:51 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2009 05:52
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Quote: "Audacity doesn't allow saving as an .ogg file. Know any good, free, converters?"

I'm using version 1.2.6 of Audacity and it exports OGG..

File > Export As Ogg Vorbis

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Bizarre? I can't see anything wrong with the setup, and I use Audacity 1.2.6 and exporting to WAV and OGG both work,

Try updating your Audacity to the latest version if you haven't already, then re-export to WAV as nikas says.

If that doesn't work, you may have to try a different sound editor!
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Quote: "Audacity doesn't allow saving as an .ogg file. Know any good, free, converters?"


There is a free converter plugin available. In fact, I think it's on the Audacity site. I highly recommend you use it. A few of those 25MB sound files , and your game is too big to download.

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DocSpoc
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Ok, I've downloaded the latest version of Audacity, made a test sound, and placed the sound zone in a test map. I'm testing right now.

It worked. Thanks for the help. One last thing, is the .ogg file smaller in size? If not, how do I get it smaller? I don't want the game to be too big in size.

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2009 17:22 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2009 17:24
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Good news! Glad its working for you,

.ogg is smaller and works well with FPSC, example would be:

File Length = 01.07
File size in .WAV = 5.66 MB
File size in .ogg = 609 KB

Audacity doesnt loose too much quality with compression either so will definately help your game build and resouring!!

Good luck!
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you can export .ogg in audacity


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Robert F
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Yeah, I always have problems with .wav files to. 1/2 of them work and half don't. I don't get why. I just convert everything to .ogg now.


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