customSounds

Custom sounds can be added to the game with REDmod.

  • unrelated to Pack as REDmod or Pack, both works

    .archive and customSounds are distinct

  • if mod was both Packed and Packed as REDmod, files under archive/pc/mod (ArchiveXL) takes precedence over files in mods (REDmod). duplicate .archive files

  • must be copied over into:

    • {install}/mods/{my-mod}/customSounds (all your .wav)
    • {install}/mods/{my-mod}/info.json

  • requires run deploy on REDmod cli whenever changed REDmod cli can be found in game's files {install}/tools/redmod/bin/redMod.exe (see deploy command in justfile)

  • requires game settings: -modded Steam game settings

encoding

.wav works in 44100Hz 16bits mono (pcm_s16le in ffmpeg).

🆕 actually I made a further experiment using ww2ogg and ffprobe to extract the infos from vanilla audio files. vanilla .wav suggests 48000Hz 16bits mono.

analyze with ffprobe 
$ just analyze C:\\Development\\modding-cyberpunk\\4ddicted\\archive\\source\\archive\\base\\localization\\common\\vo\\civ_mid_m_85_mex_30_mt_vista_del_rey_f_1ed3f72f92559000.wem

ffprobe -i 'C:\Development\modding-cyberpunk\4ddicted\archive\source\archive\base\localization\common\vo\civ_mid_m_85_mex_30_mt_vista_del_rey_f_1ed3f72f92559000.wem' -show_format

ffprobe version 6.0-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2007-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 12.2.0 (Rev10, Built by MSYS2 project)
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-w32threads --disable-autodetect --enable-fontconfig --enable-iconv --enable-gnutls --enable-libxml2 --enable-gmp --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libzmq --enable-avisynth --enable-sdl2 --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libzimg --enable-amf --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-libgme --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libgsm --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopus --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-librubberband
  libavutil      58.  2.100 / 58.  2.100
  libavcodec     60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavformat    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavdevice    60.  1.100 / 60.  1.100
  libavfilter     9.  3.100 /  9.  3.100
  libswscale      7.  1.100 /  7.  1.100
  libswresample   4. 10.100 /  4. 10.100
  libpostproc    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100

[wav @ 0000023cb642ebc0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[wav @ 0000023cb642ebc0] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Audio: none ([255][255][0][0] / 0xFFFF), 48000 Hz, 
1 channels, 103 kb/s): unknown codec
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and 'probesize' (5000000) options
Input #0, wav, from 'C:\Development\modding-cyberpunk\4ddicted\archive\source\archive\base\localization\common\vo\civ_mid_m_85_mex_30_mt_vista_del_rey_f_1ed3f72f92559000.wem':
  Duration: 00:00:05.94, bitrate: 103 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Audio: none ([255][255][0][0] / 0xFFFF), 48000 Hz, 1 channels, 103 kb/s
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 0
[FORMAT]
filename=C:\Development\modding-cyberpunk\4ddicted\archive\source\archive\base\localization\common\vo\civ_mid_m_85_mex_30_mt_vista_del_rey_f_1ed3f72f92559000.wem
nb_streams=1
nb_programs=0
format_name=wav
format_long_name=WAV / WAVE (Waveform Audio)
start_time=N/A
duration=5.937938
size=76925
bit_rate=103638
probe_score=99
[/FORMAT]

packaging

it's perfectly fine to Pack normally in WolvenKit, while still using REDmod for custom sounds on the side.

The following warnings on Pack .archive can safely be ignored. REDmod will still load the custom sounds if found in the game files, as previously mentioned.

WK warning to custom sounds

translations

files in customSounds can perfectly be nested in subdirectories, allowing (separate mods included) to prepare voices for translations, under e.g. en-us/.

localization

Codeware also provides LocalizationSystem to easily handle translations of any kind: voice, subtitle, etc.

credits to people at Discord, especially @Manually Enhanced Fuzzo, @IslandDancer

credits to @bespokecomp on Github