How to add new voice to Freelancer?

Don’t use Vista to make FL use of mp3, that type is different.

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my tutorial is german…
i´ll translate it, but it takes a while

2646968651 = gcs_patrol_idhome_p_01+
2788290508 not found in vanilla FL nor in my mod
3196792583 = gcs_fidget_patrolsimple_01-
3045999552 not found in vanilla FL nor in my mod
0xb94b2a0d voice not found in  vanilla FL nor in my mod

Have you made a new voice file (voice, like pilot_c_ill_f01.utf etc, not the recordings) and it is not defined in voices_space_male.ini or voices_space_female.ini ??

2646968651 = gcs_patrol_idhome_p_01+ and
3196792583 = gcs_fidget_patrolsimple_01- are both used by many voices listed in voices_space_male.ini and voices_space_female.ini

Your voice with hex hashcode 0xb94b2a0d is not recognised, it may be a spelling mistake if you did not make a new voice utf file?

PS - I believe your voice recordings must be .wavs, you can open mp3s exported from the utf files in Audacity, but you must then save them as .wavs before you import them into the utf file or FL can’t play them even though you can play them in UTF Edit.

As with music files, they can also be compressed easily by opening the .wavs in Sound Recorder then compressing them: - File… Properties… Convert Now… select MPEG Layer-3, 56kBit/s 24,000 Hz Stereo and save it again as .wav

But I am not sure if FL can play compressed sounds in utf file. It certainly can with music files.

first we need:
BINI or a other .ini editor
a .utf editor
a Crc-Tool
a recording programm
a .wav konverter

i think the first 3 programms are available at the-starport
for the 2 last i have used the windows audio recorder

So… we want that new station say its name

so we need the following files:
DATA/Audio/voices_space_male.ini - here you can link sounds with stations
DATA/Audio/atc_leg_m01.utf - in this file are the sounds saved
DATA/Universe/Systems/st04/st04.ini - in tihs file are all objects of a system, here you can find the name of the object

so

First we look for the code of the station, by me st04_01_base
then we open the voices_space_male.ini to add the sound entry

it looks like:

[Sound]
msg = gcs_refer_base_ST04_01_base- <-- only edit the base name
duration = 1.976304 <-- the duration of the sequence
attenuation = -6 <--volume of the sound, in this way -6 then normal (?)
Priority = -6 <-- priority of the sound, means which sound will be played first (?)

the duration should be so long like the song

now open the crc tool:

Now to recording the sound
(windows audio recorder)
open the recorder and record
click to file –> attributes
thers is something with format
just choose “convert now” and edit the atributes like this in the code box

22050kHz; 16-Bit; Mono  43kb/s
```Maybe it works with other atributes but i havn´t test it. ;)
Now save it.

Now we must only edit the .utf file.
For this you must open the .utf file with the UTF editor. You can see a lot of numbers, but only use "add node"
then you must search the node (usualy on the ground). Then rename the node, the new name is the code from the CRC-tool.
Now import the recorded sound in the node.
Save it and try it out. If i/you do everything right the station should be say its name.

By problems oder questions… i´m here ;)

I hope you can understand my english^^

sources:
i belive all my sources are offline...

finish

If your new voice is really pilot_f_leg_newvoice then the hashcode should be 2717666886 and 0xA1FC4E46

The hashcode of the error is 0xb94b2a0d so this error is not for the newvoice.

What other voices did you make?

Put them in CRC Tool and get their hashcodes to find which voice is giving the error messages.

Then it should be easy to fix by adding these 2 known messages to that voice’s utf file.

The two unknown messages must be new ones you made.

The message gcs_refer_base_decw01_01_base- gives hashcode 2580532107 (0x99CFCB8B) so this is not one of the unknown messages.

Sorry I can’t help more, but you now should be able to find the hashcodes yourself. Good luck.

Nieckey wrote:
program newbie, so looks i need take some time for this, thanks for your help.

This seems to be fixed. After my test, ST and Syd is right and i already done some “voice” for organisms in my mod.