Voice dialogue files don't work in BSA file

[GnatGoSplat]

I have an NPC follower whose voice files work fine as loose files, but when I packed them up into a BSA, they no longer work. The NPC is completely silent. The responses are still shown in subtitles, but no sound and no lip movement. If I extract the files from the BSA, then it works. That way I know the file structure inside the BSA is correct.

I packed them using BSAopt. My .esp file is ESMified, but I tried un-ESMifying it and no difference with the voice (but it did have other undesirable side-effects with face textures).

 

Any ideas?

[llamaRCA]

I have an NPC follower whose voice files work fine as loose files, but when I packed them up into a BSA, they no longer work. The NPC is completely silent. The responses are still shown in subtitles, but no sound and no lip movement. If I extract the files from the BSA, then it works. That way I know the file structure inside the BSA is correct.

I packed them using BSAopt. My .esp file is ESMified, but I tried un-ESMifying it and no difference with the voice (but it did have other undesirable side-effects with face textures).

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Ya, this is a known issue. Sound files won't work if you package them up into a bsa. So if you plan to release him you can bsa-ify everything else and then just leave the sound files in their loose folders.

[luthienanarion]

That makes me wonder what voodoo is involved with the vanilla and DLC voices, since they are read from BSA archives.

[GnatGoSplat]

That makes me wonder what voodoo is involved with the vanilla and DLC voices, since they are read from BSA archives.

That's exactly what I was wondering.

[rickerhk]

The suffix of the name of the BSA seems to matter. The DLCs have BSAs name like: DLCPluginName - Main.bsa
For Project Brazil, we have meshes, textures, and voice files in ProjectBrazil - Main.bsa, where the main file is ProjectBrazil.esm, just like the DLC's do it.
Don't know if this also applies if the main file is a esp - haven't tried that.

You don't want the voice files to be compressed in the BSA creation. What are you using to make the BSA? I use BSAOpt. You want to use a compression setting of 9 - not forced (or no compression is better - Disk is cheap). It won't compress the voice files if the result will only give a 5% reduction. Use ogg voice files - 44100hz, 16bit, mono

[GnatGoSplat]

I tried adding " - Main" to the end of my .bsa, but it didn't work. My .esp is actually an .esm with the wrong extension, so I tried renaming it and that didn't work either. I also renamed all the .esp folders containing the voice files to .esm and no joy there either. I haven't the foggiest idea why this doesn't work.

 

I was using BSAOpt as well. Thanks for the tip on the compression. I had compression on 10, but I had no idea it was a lossy compression. Since it's lossy, I probably won't bother using compression at all. I do have the voice files as 44.1khz 16-bit mono.