14-09-2005, 02:04 AM
Making a new voice pack step by step
This post is to help people that would like to record a new voicepack.
Don't be scared by the fact that this tutorial seem big, the principle is very
simple it's just that the whole process is explained in every details below.
Each Post below will contain a section dedicated to a step on creating a voice pack,
jump on the related post if you know already a step.
I'll recall first the important things to remember before giving the summary:
IMPORTANT:
-Record all your sound in 22050hz 16 bits mono else you'll have pain to apply filters. 44100hz is way to much and 8 bits or stereo are unsuitable.
-Take care about the name of your wav since the start, dealing with 60 files wrongly named is an impossible task.
-Use the tool provided in FsPassengers/Sound/Crewpack/soundtext.exe to open "soundtext" file in voice pack
folder. this tool allow you to hear each sound as well as seeing the texts of each sound of a voicepack.
-Nothing more boring than a flat copilot voice saying "oohh captain we will crash" without any emphasis or tone,
try to imagine the situation, you ARE in a plane that will crash.... if you want to yell keep the microphone under your mouth
and not in front.
-Make some try first and see if the recording level is right, a saturated wav or a wav that have really a low volume
can't be corrected at all. (low ratio volum/noise) Take care about the reverb also, depend of your microphone
and the way you record if the sound have a reverb such as "bath tube" you cannot remove it and your copilot will look
like speaking from the toiletts.
SUMMARY OF POST BELOW:
0-What software to use ?
1- Record all the voice, a simple, complete and straight method. (can take one hour only to do a voice pack)
2-Add effect to your wav (bell tone, door etc etc)
3-Filter the voice with a radio effect and convert them to proper format (good quality , low size)
4-Publishing your work
Here we go, see the posts below.
Post Edited ( 09-15-05 19:25 )