Help Needed: Custom Sounds

[Elrapido]

Hello, mighty coders! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />

I have a very simple question:

Are the sound files for POTC precached? If yes, where?

If they are loaded dynamically, which requirements do they have? (PCM 16,000 kHz; 16 Bit; Mono, right?)

I ask, because I have a very disgusting problem with:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->PlaySound("OBJECTS\mycustomsoundhere.wav");<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Once the program calls the function in a handler, the game crashes.

If I use a stock sound, everything works fine. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

And yes, I checked the spelling of the custom file name over and over again. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />

 

[Jack Rackham]

Yes I have had it too. Check the parameters of an existing sound in game and convert your sound to something similar. I use a program called UFONY (free somwhere on internet) for this, but there are others. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[Elrapido]

It works... thank you. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

I converted my custom sound files with a crappy program before (standard Windows Audio Recorder <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> ). This must have been the mistake!

I get more and more familiar with the code. Yesterday I did some kind of orientation. Today I have finished my Rapid_Raid Build-In for a little extra flavour on land.
I will implement some additional features and then release it here. It's a lot of fun! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

 

[Thomas the Terror]

It`s sounds cool, but can you give a better description of it?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I'm glad you got the sounds to work. It is indeed known that some sounds crash the game. I had that problem too some time ago. I still don't know how to properly get it to work. Luckily, somebody else converted my sound files to files that did work. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[Elrapido]

Aye, Tom!

Here is a better description of the Rapid_Raid Mod:

<a href="http://forum.piratesahoy.net/index.php?showtopic=6961" target="_blank">El Rapido's Rapid_Raid Mod</a>

YARGH! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />

 

[Thomas the Terror]

sounds facanating!