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Ok, another question! The Descent 1 bosses seem to use three sounds in the first game. The perpetual ticking sound that we all love, the Class 1 Drone sound for seeing the player and the Medium Lifter sound periodically, so I assume it's set to the attacking sound. However, in Descent 2 things seem ...

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That's a bit complicated... But should work. I'll take a look now! Thanks a lot, Pumo. EDIT: Checked out those levels and indeed - they showcase the D1 palette very well. The WIP-status of the PIG aside, this really looks good. I really like the twist the D1 palette puts on D2 textures too. Not all ...

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Version 1.1 with the updated fan sound is up. Enjoy.

Also, feel free to make suggestions for future versions. It's not like there's a lot to add, but there are still some unused sounds from D1 for example.which editors could find handy.

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Sweet! Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll be able to change the fan sound that way. I'll do it right away, actually.

EDIT: Done. Or course, credit has been given to you, Pumo, for explaining to me how to do it. Get the new file from the thread ^^

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Thanks!

Also, see if you can find out how to answer my second question, the one about the fan texture sound. I'm not doing anything more today anyway, it's far too late and I'm going to sleep. The thread is actually up now, so you can download the files and see for yourself how they work.

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After much toil and many half-successful attempts, finally there's success! With priceless help and guidance from the omniscient Jeff250 I was able to complete quite a treat for all you Descent 1 fans who have always regretted the axing of so much audio content from Descent 2. Well, at last you no l...

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Same here actually! Ok, we've got 3 votes in favor and I'm an impatient man, so I'll fix the .HAM file to use the original sound file. The poll is still open so everything can be reversed at a later date. EDIT: Actually forget it for now. The bitmap data in HAXMED32 is recorded in a very vague and u...

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A new emergency, Jeff! I'm almost done with the file. Everything is set to be identical to D1, but I've hit one little snag. Namely, the sound file for the plasma driller apparently failed to load. "robot27.raw". It should occupy sound object #200, but this object apparently is the "C...

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The slightly less convenient method is to read the address of whatever value you wish to change from HAXMED32 and then jump to the address and edit it manually using a hex editor application. A few years ago I wanted to play some D2 single player, but also wanted to see what would have been if they...

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Never mind. Apparently my version wasn't hacked, after all. I have applied Wasabi's patch only now, and it works fine now.

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This is weird - I'm positive I have successfuly made changes to weapons before. Also, I believe this HAXMED32 version that I am using is indeed cracked so it allows to edit Descent2.HAM at all. Why would it give a "data rejected" message all of the sudden, even when I try to change only so...

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Funny piece of trivia. I also added in the old fan sound, and while all the other files appeared in the "Other" tab in DTX2, this one got set neatly where it belongs. http://s7.postimg.org/eb13mfe6j/fan.jpg Must have been axed last minute by the developers, but its slot seems to have remai...

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Funny thing. Fusion seems to do full damage, though

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I'll be making a new thread posting the new .SXX files and Descent2.HAM when I'm done with the work. Which should be later today.

I'll make a version of the HAM file where only the sounds are accounted for, so it doesn't alter the gameplay.

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I mean the fan as in ventillator, air conditioning contraption. Although not a major issue, the sound of fans in Descent 2 has been replaced and the difference is noticeable. As with all ambient sounds, the sound choice of the fan does contribute to the atmosphere of the level. I learned how to add ...

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Good news from the technicalities front! With Jeff's guidance, I've overcome the final hurdle to reintroducing Descent 1 sounds to D2 at no expense to existing sounds. All robots, doors and bosses will have their D1 sounds restored. I should be able to finish the file later today. That coupled with ...

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I don't think you understand what I'm suggesting. If sound element #78 is unused, then 1) Set (e.g.) a door to use sound element 78. 2) Then edit sound element 78 and change its sound from 255 to (e.g.) 183. Manually type the numbers in in either step if necessary. During step 2, ignore haxmedit's ...

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Yeah, just use one of the unused sound elements. It looks like these elements' sound numbers are really just the ordinal position of their sounds in the *.sxx file (despite what haxmedit would lead you to believe). So to have one of the unused sound elements point to your first added sound, just ma...

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Ok, my fear has been confirmed. The files are in the archive, they get recognized by DTX2, but as I thought, these files are "lost" to Haxmed32. As I mentioned earlier, Haxmed32 uses sound flags and sound objects. - you can assign the objects to the flags, and the flags themselves are used...

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Ok, I've streamlined the code to fit your guidelines. Now there is no error message, but the script cannot initiate. I get this: Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 10:55:48) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for...

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I found out an interesting piece of trivia while browsing the DXX-Rebirth forums. ThugsRook suggested it there. In order to fix the files from Descent 2 which get sped up at 22 khz all you need to do is to re-save them as 8 bit mono 22500 hz using soundrec32. Of course it works. Funnily enough, you ...

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Yeah, DLE's hog manager is sometimes unstable, not very reliable overall.

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And it worked! That was it. I've got them files extracted. Thanks a lot! Now tell me what code I'll need to change to repackage the folders along with new files into new SXX files. I'll try to incorporate the D1 files into the archive. Also, do they need to be in RAW format? I'd need to convert them...

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I still need to hurry with the custom D1 palette pig, as I've not really touched it since two months aprroximately (been rather working a lot on my Pumo Mines project). xfing, are you sure you don't really want me to upload the pig to dropbox, even if it's a work in progress? It has all wall textur...

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The 252 part was a simple misclick, of course I meant 255. But in Haxmed32 you can only see sound flags up til 253, since the final two are presumably vacant. Ok, as for the script: I ran it using IDLE and here's what it says: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Gry\Descent\Descent 2\sx...

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Hey XFing. I'm extremely interested in helping out this project. I would love to design a level for Chapter 1 if you'd let me. :) Let me know if you have any openings for levels in that chapter. I would love to contribute to this :) Hey, PigmyRhino! Good to have ya :) As for openings: consult the O...

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I have set for the last two bosses to have Player Megas as their weaponry, as opposed to Robot Megas. However, on Trainee the Megas do like 47 points of shield damage, even though the HAM file clearly states that they should do 199 damage on all difficulties. I compared this to Robot Megas on Traine...

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The format looks simple enough. If you run the attached code from the descent2 directory, it will read in "descent2.s22", extract its contents to "descent2.s22_FILES", then append to it a new entry named "test" (re)using the raw audio from the extracted "descent2....

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The problem, to me, is that if you replace the door sounds, the smaller D1 portion of the mission (which I know is very important to you :P) will sound almost fine... but the D2 portion, which is larger, will have the door sounds completely screwed up -- and I can't see the D1 sounds fitting with m...

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All right, so I actually went back and did the quick update things, including two or three aesthetic changes to Circularis that I think were suggested a while ago. If you like, I can also cut down on the secondary texture usage a bit more so it looks a little less busy or such. In the meantime, I'v...

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Ok, played the level! As expected, a well-made and beautiful level. The texture choice is superb, the atmosphere is as Parallax as it can get and there is plenty enough of D1 touches. Wonderful work! Three things: - Please try to add like 2-3 more secret doors throughout the level. These only start ...

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Uhh... Pretty sure he wanted any D2 weapons in the first third of the game to be restricted to a few simple missiles. I get the feeling that as much as it might be in line with the official Parallax levels, making a gun as strong as the Helix obtainable that early on would conflict a little too muc...

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That's great to know! I'm waiting with impatience

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Oh, Sorry for the confusion. I remember that SOMEONE expressed interest in making "The Cauldron", but yeah, that probably was not you. Hehe. To be honest, I personally had a vision of what it could look like. Or at least the titular "cauldron". Kind of like the boss room from D1 ...

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The name is kinda generic, agreed. Well, NT will have to come up with some improvement, since he's the one making the level

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Very well then, we'll get to that. For now I'm waiting for some levels - I'm especially stoked on those by NaphthaTurisas. Personally, I feel a strong compulsion to keep working on Solar System levels, even though there should be some room for others to work on them too. But I'm not starting another...

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If the question this thread titles from is only about strictly FS versus CS, then I have quite a single answer for it : Texture variety and fun factor. Interesting point! Most people are convinced that D2 textures were in fact much more varied than those from D1. And looking at the Zeta Aquilae set...

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Guided missiles also create strategies that wouldn't happen in D1, especially if you introduce them in a place where there's no other reason to use them. Players won't save them, they'll use them to pick off bots one by one in particularly sticky situations while staying out of the bots' sight. Ind...

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I need to check out that WAD. Hee hee.

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I was thinking about that too, and I had several ideas: - Making a significant difficulty plummet at 1/3 of the mission would be very anticlimactic - also considering that Zeta Aquilae is where the D2 weapons start to be given out. I'd say we should make a noticeable difficulty spike instead, and fl...

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