Epic Tutorials On Editing Sounds In HaloPC
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:26 am
All Credit Goes to Saggy For Everything Written Below. Tuts Slightly Edit By Myself But Asking For No Credit. Just Cleaning Them Up Some.
This is only for dialog and main menu music, not sound effects. Sound effects is found below in a seperate tutorial.
----List Of Equipment----
1. Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec
2. WinRAR
3. OGG Music Converter
4. Halo Map Tools 3.5
5. Microsoft .NET Frame Work
6. A Microphone
7. Windows XP or Vista
you can find all these items HERE
----Tutorial----
1) First, download and extract the xbox codec to your Desktop.
1.2) Right click the file named XBADPCMinst.inf and select Install.
4.) With a microphone connected to your computer click the Red Circle and make a noise OR skip this step and look at step 4.2
6.) Click Convert Now
7.) For format choose Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec. For attributes select 22.050 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono 12kb/sec
8.) Now save your .WAV as the file you saved in HMT 3.5. Click yes to overwrite.
9.) Now open OGG Converter and click Evaluate, select WAV, click next.
11.) Scroll down in Halo Map Tools until you find the Sound tag and click on it.
12.) Select sound\music\title1\loops in the sound tag.
13.) On your right, select halo_orig_title. Click Import Track and open your .Ogg file. Click OK on the pop up and click the Save Button.
14.) Open up Halo and wait 15 seconds at the main menu, your song/sound should now be playing!
This Part Is Only For SFX
Ok, first off all, you are going to need some equipment to do this.
----List Of Equipment----
1. Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec
2. WinRAR
3. OGG Music Converter
4. Halo Map Tools 3.5
5. Microsoft .NET Frame Work
6. A Microphone
7. Windows XP or Vista
you can find all these items HERE
----Tutorial----
1) First, download and extract the xbox codec to your Desktop.
1.2) Right click the file named XBADPCMinst.inf and select Install.
1.3) When installation is complete, open up Control Panel, then click Sounds, Speech, Audio Devices, then click Sound And Audio Devices. Select the Hardware tag. Double Click Audio Codecs then select the Properties tag. Locate Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec then Double Click it and set the priority to 1 and make sure Use This Audio Codec is enabled.
2.) Now open Halo Map Tools 3.5 and go to the map with the sound effect that you want to change.
4.) With a microphone connected to your computer click the Red Circle and make a noise.
5.) With You WAV file open in Sound Recorder, click File and select Properties.
6.) Click Convert Now
7.) For format choose Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec. For attributes select 22.050 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono 11kb/sec
8.) Now save your .WAV file over the track you saved in Halo Map Tools. Click yes to overwrite.
9.) Open up Halo Map Tools 3.5 and open bloodgulch.map for example (If you cant find it it should be under D:\Program Files\Microsft Games\Halo\Maps\)
10.) Scroll down in Halo Map Tools until you find the Sound tag and click on it.
11.) Say you selected sound\sfx\weapons\pistol\fire as your new track in the sound tag.
12.) On your right click Import Track and select your .WAV file. Click OK on the pop up and click the Save Button.
13.) Open up Halo and Play bloodgulch and test your sound!
This is only for dialog and main menu music, not sound effects. Sound effects is found below in a seperate tutorial.
----List Of Equipment----
1. Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec
2. WinRAR
3. OGG Music Converter
4. Halo Map Tools 3.5
5. Microsoft .NET Frame Work
6. A Microphone
7. Windows XP or Vista
you can find all these items HERE
----Tutorial----
1) First, download and extract the xbox codec to your Desktop.
1.2) Right click the file named XBADPCMinst.inf and select Install.
- When installation is complete, open up Control Panel, then click Sounds, Speech, Audio Devices, then click Sound And Audio Devices. Select the Hardware tag. Double Click Audio Codecs then select the Properties tag. Locate Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec then Double Click it and set the priority to 1 and make sure Use This Audio Codec is enabled.
- Once the map is open, scroll down until you find Sound tag. Click on it.
Choose your sound effect and select it.
To your right click Save Track. Save to wherever you want but DON'T rename it!
4.) With a microphone connected to your computer click the Red Circle and make a noise OR skip this step and look at step 4.2
- Instead of using Sound Recorder, You can use a Mp3. Song you have on your computer. To do this, open OGG Converter and click evaluate. Select: Mp3. Click next. Click Add Files... and choose your song. Ckeck the box beside it and click next. Click WAV and click next. Keep the settings the same and click next. Uncheck the box that says Launch file explorer and go to output folder when finished converting. Click next. Click convert. Go to next step.
6.) Click Convert Now
7.) For format choose Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec. For attributes select 22.050 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono 12kb/sec
8.) Now save your .WAV as the file you saved in HMT 3.5. Click yes to overwrite.
9.) Now open OGG Converter and click Evaluate, select WAV, click next.
- Click Add Files... and select your .WAV sound.
Check the box beside it and click Next.
Select OGG and click next.
For frequency select 22,050 Hz. Click Next.
Uncheck the box that says Launch file explorer and go to output folder when finished converting. Click Next.
Click Convert.
11.) Scroll down in Halo Map Tools until you find the Sound tag and click on it.
12.) Select sound\music\title1\loops in the sound tag.
13.) On your right, select halo_orig_title. Click Import Track and open your .Ogg file. Click OK on the pop up and click the Save Button.
14.) Open up Halo and wait 15 seconds at the main menu, your song/sound should now be playing!
This Part Is Only For SFX
Ok, first off all, you are going to need some equipment to do this.
----List Of Equipment----
1. Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec
2. WinRAR
3. OGG Music Converter
4. Halo Map Tools 3.5
5. Microsoft .NET Frame Work
6. A Microphone
7. Windows XP or Vista
you can find all these items HERE
----Tutorial----
1) First, download and extract the xbox codec to your Desktop.
1.2) Right click the file named XBADPCMinst.inf and select Install.
1.3) When installation is complete, open up Control Panel, then click Sounds, Speech, Audio Devices, then click Sound And Audio Devices. Select the Hardware tag. Double Click Audio Codecs then select the Properties tag. Locate Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec then Double Click it and set the priority to 1 and make sure Use This Audio Codec is enabled.
2.) Now open Halo Map Tools 3.5 and go to the map with the sound effect that you want to change.
- Once the map is open, scroll down until you find Sound tag. Click on it.
Choose your sound effect and select it.
To your right click Save Track. Save to wherever you want but DON'T rename it!
4.) With a microphone connected to your computer click the Red Circle and make a noise.
5.) With You WAV file open in Sound Recorder, click File and select Properties.
6.) Click Convert Now
7.) For format choose Xbox ADPCM Audio Codec. For attributes select 22.050 kHz, 4 Bit, Mono 11kb/sec
8.) Now save your .WAV file over the track you saved in Halo Map Tools. Click yes to overwrite.
9.) Open up Halo Map Tools 3.5 and open bloodgulch.map for example (If you cant find it it should be under D:\Program Files\Microsft Games\Halo\Maps\)
10.) Scroll down in Halo Map Tools until you find the Sound tag and click on it.
11.) Say you selected sound\sfx\weapons\pistol\fire as your new track in the sound tag.
12.) On your right click Import Track and select your .WAV file. Click OK on the pop up and click the Save Button.
13.) Open up Halo and Play bloodgulch and test your sound!
I'm talking about the mp3 to WAV