SOUND TUTORIAL FOR MCM2

Well here at last we have the sound tutorial for mcm2. Its not as hard as you would think. If you have experiance with User objects and Custom Skys it will help but not needed. MCMnut and JMS have taken the infomation they have and put this through the test and it works. We hope this brings MCM2 to a new level of track making. With user objects, custom skys, and now sound the track should now have a new flavor. Enjoy here we go.

Here's something cool you add to your scene files, sound. Any sounds you make that you want to be 3D positional sounds, they should be 16-bit, 22khz MONO.
Stereo samples only work as 2D sounds.

We found that recording your own sounds can be quite tricky to get to work correctly. If the volume level is too high, all you will get is distortion in the game. We recommend that you stick with the built in sounds for now. If you decide to record your own sounds be prepared for quite a bit of trial and error.

[Sounds]
CrowdPresent=F
;make this the total number of static sounds you want emitting around the world. 
NumStaticSounds=1
[StaticSound1]
;emitters are invisible and work good for adding wind sounds, birds, distant jets, etc
SoundType=Emitter
Position=1200.0,25.0,1800.0
;leave the .wav off your wave file names. eg FunnyMix3.wav is entered as: FunnyMix3
SoundResourceFile=FunnyMix3
SoundMaxDistance=150.0
SoundMinDistance=10.0
SoundLooping=T
;2D sounds can be stereo, all 3D sounds MUST BE MONO !
;SoundForce2D=T (for 2D sounds) , SoundForce2D=F (for 3d sounds)
SoundForce2D=F
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[StaticModels]
NumberOfStaticModels=1
[Model1]
SLT=BellRanger.SLB
Position=1724.024048,8.842298,1878.869385
UseLighting=T
LookVector=0.000000,0.000000,1.000000
UpVector=0.000000,1.000000,0.000000
Scale=1.0,1.0,1.0
;How to add sound to a 3d model you placed in the world with armadillo
;leave the .wav off your wave file names. eg Helio01.wav is entered as: Helio01
SoundResourceFile=Heli01
SoundLooping=T
SoundMaxDistance=100.0
SoundMinDistance=5.0
;2D sounds can be stereo, all 3D sounds MUST BE MONO !
;SoundForce2D=T (for 2D sounds) , SoundForce2D=F (for 3d sounds)
SoundForce2D=F



Now you must add the WAV files to your INI file:

[ResourceFiles]
TotalFileSets=9
RootPath=C:\Projects\MyNationalTrack
FileSet_1=MyNationalTrack.tdf
FileSet_2=MyNationalTrack.esb
FileSet_3=MyNationalTrack.scn
FileSet_4=MyNationalTrack.trn
FileSet_5=MyNationalTrack.seg
FileSet_6=MyNationalTrack.tga
FileSet_7=MyNationalTrackS.tga
FileSet_8=FunnyMix3.wav
FileSet_9=Heli01.wav
OutputFilename=C:\Projects\MyNationalTrack\MyNationalTrack.env

Cool stuff so far. It gets better you can use any sound that is embeded in MCM2. But we found that you need to tweak the SoundMax Distance and the Sound MinDistance to get the sound at a level you like. Make the Min distance greater to increase the sound level.

Well here is a list of all the MCM2 sound that you can use.

Jeff has put together a sound check Nat. It has bales with numbers on the gound that match up with the numbers on the list above. Run it on practice mode and check out all the pre made sounds of MCM2.

Here is a LINK to a sound check nat.
* Extract this file to your nationals folder and be sure to run the track in "Practice Mode"

 

If you have any more questions just post at the message board at www.twisteddirt.com

Thanks From VRT_MCMnut and JMS

www.severeoffroad.com