CK - Export Sounds to Ba2 - Need help

[Reginald001]

Hey guys/gals!

 

I'm working on the Fallout Extended Lore project (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/29917)

And am adding voice acted holotapes to the mod.

I'm running into an issue where sounds exported to ba2 basically 'just don't work'.

 

1) I create a sound descriptor, pointing to a WAV file.

2) I use it in game, test it, it works fine in a holotape.

3) I export the sounds to a BA2 file (either using CK or Archive2.exe, I tried with and without compression)

4) No sounds play in game when I remove the original wav files, it does NOT fall back to the Ba2 archive.

 

I did and googled everything I could think of, and found only one person with a similar issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FalloutMods/comments/4pky7m/fo4ck_weather_sounds_wont_play_from_within_a_ba2/

But their fix did not help.

 

Sound files are located in:

data\Sounds\FX\Fo4LoreHT\*.wav

 

When I export using the CK it nicely translates the files to XWM format.

But the ESP still points to WAV (I checked using Fo4Edit to make sure).

I don't get it. I think I'm missing something that links the ESP to the BA2.

I thought it was just the naming (name them the same) but it's not.

 

Question: How do you succesfully export sound files using the CK so that they work in game?

Everything works just fine until I export to BA2... What am I missing?

 

(Ps I would upload the BA2 and ESP files but am not allowed to upload anything larger than 250kb).

Edited February 20, 2018 by Reginald001

[payl0ad]

Just FYI, sounds in compressed BA2 archives will not play/load, that's a known limitation. Use uncompressed archives. About your conversion issue - no clue, sorry.

Edited February 20, 2018 by payl0ad

[Reginald001]

Yes I knew that, indeed, thanks. :smile:

 

I solved this after some hours of fiddling by doing the following:

 

- Converted the wav files manually to XWM using MultiXWM.

- Used the Archive2 tool to pack these XWM files (in place of the wav files) and turned off compression (which I did to begin with but just mentioning it here to complete the solution)

- Tested on a CLEAN save (turns out my save game somehow doesn't want to play the packed files, so that took me an hour or two before I figured that out).

Edited February 20, 2018 by Reginald001