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LVZ/LVL Questions - .wa2 FIles...

Light Hazard - Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:47 pm
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Okay so I hav a mp3 i want to put in as victoryl.wa2 (the victory music %102) but the piece of crap wont run when i press %102. i get the generic one. now the music is abuot 1 minute with nothing other than instruments. oh and btw, i renamed the .mp3 to .wa2 to make sure it runs with continuum. therefore, what i did was export the mp3 into a wav file but now it's like 13 MB big, any ideas?

Smong - Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:58 pm
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Zip up the file, put it on a website and tell people to download it from there (it'll be faster than downloading ingame anyway). I think you may be able to add this to the 'all-in-one webinstaller' that sscentral.com has.

Cyan~Fire - Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:14 pm
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Well I looked at the your gfx.lvz you were talking about before and I noticed that you had that victoryl.wa2 as 44.1kHz, 16-bit, and stereo. I'm sure the quality wasn't that high, and I really doubt whether anyone will care about 16-bit stereo for the victory music.

Smong - Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:25 pm
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If someone just wants to checkout the zone they won't want to wait for a huge download. If they decide they like the zone and are planning to comeback again they can then download the music from a website.
As cyan says, stereo isn't needed and I don't even know if mp3->wav even does 44khz justice (assuming mp3 is radio quality and wav can be cd quality).

Light Hazard - Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:57 pm
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okay so say i DO tell them to download it from a website...exactly how would they play it during the continuum game? what should be the continuum settings?

CypherJF - Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:29 pm
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They would need to probably extract (if in a zip/rar) the file into /continuum/zones/<zone name/lvzname.lvz

And set your levelfiles=lvzname.lvz

I think

Bak - Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:12 pm
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change it to an 8bit mono wave file

Phyran - Tue Jun 29, 2004 9:01 pm
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wav files are big =_=

btw i think the max size limit (.lvl, .lvz etc. is around 4mb for continuum

CypherJF - Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:07 pm
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waves are sexy unf!

lol...

indeed they are.. and it's a bummer priit didnt implement the mp3 junk but o well life goes on...

Smong - Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:27 am
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Implement junk?
I would just put victoryl.wav in a zip file, no point messing with levelfiles and stuff. Then tell them to extract it to the zone folder. I'm not sure if XP supports .rar, I've seen it open .zip files without 3rd party software.

Light Hazard - Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:37 am
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so all i do is tell them to stick it into the zone folder with the name victoryl.wa2? and then in the .lvz i put File=victoryl.wa2 ?

Light Hazard - Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:41 am
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what would be the best rate for a wa2 file for continuum? in Hz

Cyan~Fire - Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:25 pm
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Whatever you want. Get the right mix between size and quality. I think I used ~22kHz for my victoryl.wa2, but it was a rather small loop.

CypherJF - Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:18 pm
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Continuum can't read MP3's thats why I said the mp3 junk ie: mp3 player for the sounds.. waves are good but normally large; making it boring for modem users to dload, even when they're compressed.

Anonymous - Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:20 pm
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Light Hazard wrote:

so all i do is tell them to stick it into the zone folder with the name victoryl.wa2? and then in the .lvz i put File=victoryl.wa2 ?

They shouldn't have to rename anything if you zip up victoryl.wav. Don't put it in LevelFiles or any .lvz as it will increase download time. Just unzip to zone folder.

Any gfx/sfx in a zone folder will replace what is in continuum/graphics or continuum/sound for that zone only. People commonly put custom bomb gfx in their folders so they can see how big the prox/damage is on bombs. (I use high visibility bullets myself).