I have looked in Z2Sound.baa.bstn with hex editor and there are some file system. Perhaps, this is the name of sound effects (groups of simple sounds).
Game files should have info about sound effects and sounds of which they consist. I'm hoping to link that file system to the extracted sounds. Any ideas?
You read right, 500-something pages of that between the first post and its complaints. 'Nuff said, move along! ;D
With that outta the way, Avatarus needs your help. Any takers? ;)
I should say, I'm gonna pay for the results. If any.
You can also use my skype: avatarus_one
edited 4:35 PM EST December 2, 2012
Now, with that out of the way, can we please get back on topic, for Avatarus' sake? :/
Yuuto, any progess? No?
So far I wrote a tool that lists all sound entries with their paths and their type (I get results similar to Z2Sound.txt).
The .bstn only contains the symbol/name of each sound entry and the .bst the actual entries. It also contains the file name for each stream and a number for each sequence referencing the sequence entry in Z2SoundSeqs.arc. But the SE entries don't reference the location/name of the samples at all. This must be stored in another file, which I still try to find.
edited 8:56 AM EST December 4, 2012
There are Z2CSRes.arc with 4 files in it. z2cstable.bct has some entries too.
z2cstable.bct seems similar to the .bst and .bstn files but contains completely different entries.
The other files in Z2CSRes.arc aren't very interesting. The last idea I have is the .bsc file, but it has a very complex format (it uses command bytes like the sequences do).
EDIT: The .bsc definitely seems to contain the SE entries. I found out its basic structure, now I hope I'll find the relevant values...
edited 11:13 AM EST December 5, 2012
Link: Sounds.txt
I have used NoClone and now there are 4284 Z2SeWave files left, instead of original 13209. This makes sorting a lot easier, but now I'm unsure how to link them with sequences.
But your result is right, when I look at the .bsc it has approximately 4275 entries. The duplicates seem to have something to do with the banks they are stored in, so the game just loads the necessary ones.
I also don't understand why there are .bnk files for the sound effects. I mean this makes sense for the instrument samples of the sequences, but for SEs?
EDIT: Now I found out. I was wondering why the BSC does not store the sample IDs, they are stored in the BNK files (like the BGM samples are). The BSC format is so similar to that of the sequences because it actually is some kind of sequence. It sets bank, instrument and key and then the appropriate sample in the BNK is looked up.
What a complex audio system ...
edited 10:52 AM EST December 6, 2012
/SE/Z2SYSTEM_SE/Z2SE_SY_TALK_START
Z2SeWave_0.aw_000000af.wav pitch 1.50 volume 1.00
pause 0.20
Z2SeWave_0.aw_000000b1.wav pitch 1.10 volume 0.50
For example, Z2SE_SY_TALK_START consists of two sounds. But what if Z2SeWave_0.aw_000000af.wav is one of copies and was deleted?
It does not directly say which aw/wav is used but it gets the ID of the used sample from the BNK. All duplicates have the same ID, so if you delete the duplicates there will still remain one sample with this ID.
This will taker longer than I've estimated...
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Now working?
edited 10:06 AM EST December 26, 2012
Will that easy to make a list, that shows the list of WAV's for each sequence?
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Baad&Wsyster make sounds very hard to find or determine what is it for. I've sorted some of them, but it looks like a waste of time.
That motivates me to continue my work on the sequences ^^
Perhaps I'll get them to play correctly and to export them someday.
Off-topic: Do you still search people for this project?
edited 11:19 AM EST December 26, 2012
I'm often hear, that I should add more sounds, but I can't find everything that I need.
Yes, I'm still looking for people. There are list of vacancies.
edited 11:30 AM EST December 26, 2012
I would be interested in programming for the game.
Do you need audio/music programmers? Because I'm currently writing an engine for interactive/dynamic music like in TP.
I want to implement interactive music with streamed files and support Vertical Re-Orchestration (different music "layers") and Horizontal Re-Sequencing (different segments). You can find both in TP.
When I could do this for the game that would be great. Maybe I should post that in the project jobs section?
I think both methods are possible in UDK. I haven't learned much about playing sounds yet.