Sound Modding

[shomu1]

I would like to be able to mod the game to play "Highway to the Danger Zone" whenever a Tomcat enters the field.

[The W:AB Noob]

To quote myself:

After only a tiny bit of research, I doubt that it is decodable at all. I think .ess might be like Eugen Systems Sound or something like that, and of course, we don't have tools...

So unfortunately, this won't be possible.

I would like to be able to mod the game to play "Highway to the Danger Zone" whenever a Tomcat enters the field.

[shomu1]

To quote myself:

After only a tiny bit of research, I doubt that it is decodable at all. I think .ess might be like Eugen Systems Sound or something like that, and of course, we don't have tools...

So unfortunately, this won't be possible.

I would like to be able to mod the game to play "Highway to the Danger Zone" whenever a Tomcat enters the field.

Oh well. One can dream. :/

[MekBat-Jim]

Hmm... to bad.. I cant decode .ess files..

But i have managed to open the decription file to just swap some sounds in game.. I edited their path within the game structure... I tried to change path to a folder inside Wargame folder with no succes.

[Looter]

Has anyone poked around with trying to reverse the file format of the .ess files? It could just be a simple format with some metadata and then the sound data itself. If its not some licensed middle-ware or codec they are using it would be nice if Eugen could just post the part of the header containing the ess format for tool authors.

[loosebruce]

Has anyone poked around with trying to reverse the file format of the .ess files? It could just be a simple format with some metadata and then the sound data itself. If its not some licensed middle-ware or codec they are using it would be nice if Eugen could just post the part of the header containing the ess format for tool authors.

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I am sure there is some sound tool out there to read headers from files, but if we don't know the header size it will be hard...

[Looter]

Has anyone poked around with trying to reverse the file format of the .ess files? It could just be a simple format with some metadata and then the sound data itself. If its not some licensed middle-ware or codec they are using it would be nice if Eugen could just post the part of the header containing the ess format for tool authors.

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I am sure there is some sound tool out there to read headers from files, but if we don't know the header size it will be hard...

I would guess it's as simple as a magic number describing the format as ess, maybe some codec information for all the sounds then a repetitive format describing each file in the fileblock later in the binary. I would look but don't have any ess files on hand at the moment. Does anyone know if wargame plays nice with debuggers attached?

[Darkmil]

as far as I know the file format used is .ogg.
It is only the storage that use .ess file.

[Vasto]

as far as I know the file format used is .ogg.

There are .wav files as well.

[The W:AB Noob]

Hm, so we can open up .ess using the Modding Suite? Or do we need something else?