Knoppix Startup Ogg Sounds How To Add Them

This tutorial teaches you how to add them to WAD or PK3 files.

If you want custom music to be played in your custom level, see the level header article.

Like Doom itself and Doom -based games and mods, SRB2 includes native support for the Doom Sound Format, though another widely used format for sounds is WAV (.wav).

The most widely used format for music is Ogg Vorbis (.ogg), as it compresses well without much drop in quality.

Ogg Opus (also.ogg, sometimes.opus) may be preferred due to its superior quality-to-size ratios and low latency, but it cannot be used for sound effects and is not as widely supported in other software notably, SLADE does not recognize and cannot play back Opus files.

If your file is in an unsupported format, you need to convert it using additional software such as Audacity.

However, some MP3s may not work properly as sounds (though they may work fine as music), and Ogg with the Opus codec is only supported in music.

Since sounds are usually short, you can safely use uncompressed formats such as WAV.

The names of sound lumps are prefixed by DS, e.g., DSSPIN.

If you want to replace an existing sound, look up the name of the lump in question in the list of sounds and give your lump the same name.

To find out which sounds you want to replace, you can preview SRB2s sound lumps, which are stored in the file srb2.pk3.

SLADE and XWE both have settings for filtering the lump list, by selecting Audio on the Show drop-down box, or with the Sound button, respectively.

Now that only sound effect and music files are shown, select the sound effect you want to check from the list and click the play button, or if using XWE, select Wave Play in the menu bar.

Knoppix Startup Ogg Sounds Free Slots For

The game will then automatically reserve one of 1600 free slots for the new sound.

The internal sound names used by SRB2 are in lowercase and use a sfx prefix.

For example, if the name of your sound lump is DSCUSTOM, you must declare the sound as sfxcustom.

See Freeslot Declaring freeslot names for a guide on how to declare custom sounds.

In SLADE, you can simply drag and drop the file into the lump list.

In XWE, select Entry Load on the menu bar, navigate to the folder that contains your file and insert it.

Once the file is imported, make sure the lump name matches the name you decided to use.

If not, right-click on the lump and select Rename or Rename Entry, respectively.

If the sound isnt played, check if you gave your lump the correct name and, if necessary, declared the freeslot correctly.

This isnt a problem with MIDI or module formats like MOD and XM, whose file size is already very small.

Recorded music (formats like MP3 and Ogg), however, can become rather large when using a high bitrate.

It is recommended that you use the Ogg format (which sounds better at low bitrates) with a bitrate of no more than 128 kbs.

Most of the music included with SRB2 is encoded in Ogg Vorbis at 64 kbs.

Unlike in sound effects, the Opus codec is supported in music as an even higher-quality alternative to Vorbis.