Darkflow, help modders with sound mods

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Darkflow, so you let us create sound mods. Nice.

So you created a sandbox portal for sound mods. Nice.

But why do we need to find our own tools and ways to create the mods?

Thank god there’s a free third party tool that opens and rebuilds your bank files, but what if there wasn’t?

Then, each voiceover bank file contains thousands of sounds files.
Are all of them used by the game?
No, about 50% at best.
Which ones exactly?
We need to guess it with each update of the game. Play the game, memorize the sounds that are used, and try to replace them.

You don’t understand Japanese? Sucks to be you, modder.

Why don’t you give modders a list of files used by the game and straightforward description of what’s located where?

Why don’t you dedicate one sound engineer from your team to come once a week and answer a couple questions?

(I can’t speak for non-sound modders but I doubt they have it much better)

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that summs up pretty much our modding experience :upside_down_face:

but yeah, it’s mostly community based.

you have great elements such as devenddar ( which it’s not active as he used to. but i can’t really blain him ) bazsi37, tommy, schyrikami, and many others that will try to help anyone out.

but unless some of us stumble in the right place ( and share it ), yeah you’re gonna have an hard time.

i believe our local modding sound guru, is bigote. the moderator.

but beside him, i don’t know much about sounds and what not.

it’s pretty much a trial and error process.

you know, it’s funny. because you’d expect that one of those 120 ( so has been claimed ) developers would at least answer questions from times to times.

which for the modding scene, we’re lucky that once a month or weeks, ( depending by her schedule ) Enginya actually shows up and sometimes answers questions based on what she knows.
( still… to little, and sometimes takes ages to gets answers. because the person in question that comes forward, is only one )

problem is, as she told us, she was attached to the editor for a brief moment.
but she is mostly a logic / script developer.

so, if you want to change things in other fields, good luck.

but then again, moddings are often neglected and overshadowed.
they claim it’s only temporary but… i don’t know.

take it as you will.
but, do not give up.
perhaps there will be a light at the end of this seemingly endless dark and shallow tunnel.

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cause they also probably use third party tools and cant redistribute them cause of license.