How to add sounds to Alerts?

posted on November 30th, 2010, 2:57 am

I'd like to add sound to the alert buttons. When setting your ships to red alert i'd like the alarm klaxon to sound. I have several .WAV files that intend to use and have added them to the SOUNDS folder. However, I'm not sure how to make them actually sound when the buttons are pressed. Obviously as they are not weapons FIRESOUND = "????.Wav" will not work. Suggestions...

They are "RED_ALERT" "YELLOW_ALERT" and "GREEN ALERT"

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on November 30th, 2010, 3:09 am

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on November 30th, 2010, 3:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

If you want to change the sound references completely (i.e. add more sounds per red alert function), you'll want to edit the events.dat file and look for something like this:

ComputerRedAlert{
Table
Sound "borgadv_alert_red.wav"
Sound "romulanadv_alert_red.wav"
Sound "federationadv_alert_red.wav"
Sound "klingonadv_alert_red.wav"
Sound "dominionadv_alert_red.wav"

More information on how to edit this file can be found here if you are interested:
Sound Editing - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations

If on the other hand, you just want to change the sound files without adding more sounds, etc, you can just delete the appropriate .wav files and substitute your own (again, found by looking in the events.dat file)

For instance, just rename one of yours to "borgadv_alert_red.wav" if you want to replace the sound for the borg red alert status I believe. 

EDIT: small mistake

posted on November 30th, 2010, 7:01 pm

I have one issue still, i can't even get the sounds to play for red alert that came with fleet ops. All i get is the button selecting sound. The sound and event files are both included by fleetops but they don't even play. Suggestions? I notice there is no sound text on the ralert.odf file...is that the problem?

posted on November 30th, 2010, 8:12 pm

Ah, I guess you'll need to indicate the event that you want to use in the ODF in that case . I had forgotten that Fleet Ops had (temporarily) removed all those events from various buttons 

posted on January 31st, 2011, 11:09 pm

How can i add that event?

posted on January 31st, 2011, 11:30 pm

You'll want to add the event to the events.dat file . This entry should help 
Sound Editing - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fleet Operations