Changing the thruster sound effect?

Why485

I’ve been looking into creating a reverse thruster for capital ships and have hit a road block with the sound effects. I cannot find out where the game decides to use a sound effect for the thruster. It seems the thruster will always play the default sound entry “ge_s_thruster_01”. As far as I’m aware, nothing actually calls for that sound entry, it just gets used as if it was hard coded.

As a side note, I also ran into the issue where the thruster noise is only played when a thruster has a positive thrust. When given a negative thrust, the sound effect does not play.

adoxa

Thruster sounds are at DATA\AUDIO\engine_sounds.ini (interior_thruster_sound for cockpit, exterior_thruster_sound for third-person; the individual thruster sounds are not used). Use this patch to use the absolute value when determining the volume to use.

freelancer.exe	12F217	D81D74745C00->D9E1D95CE408 = have sound on negative thrust PART 1 ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	12F221	41->00 = have sound on negative thrust PART 2 ~adoxa

The volume range is controlled by constants.ini.

[ThrusterEquipConsts]
MAX_VOLUME_FORCE = 20000
MIN_VOLUME_FORCE = 5000

Why485

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately it doesn’t solve my initial problem with wanting a separate sound file to go with a separate thruster. It’s not a big deal though. The absolute value hack is neat though, nice work.

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In the effects entry would adding this line help?

snd_effect = your_sound_effect

Then define the sound effect to add your custom sound. Shot in the dark but i do it with weapons a lot.

I’ve just had a browse through the code after your initial post as i have reactivated all the other thruster effects and your problem intrigued me as i’ve not thought about the audio side of it before. Problem is i can’t find a reference to the audio file anywhere either.