Fast, User-Friendly Batch TPA Importer?
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 12:48 pm
I'm currently attempting to build a custom .TPA file, however using TPA reader is taking exceptionally long due to it becoming more and more laggy as I add sounds. There are well over 150 sounds that need to be imported to just my Ambient.tpa alone, and another 200 or so with Effects and Stream combined, and the lag with only 30 sounds imported to one file is already becoming very frustrating. For example, I imported a single 1:35 minute long music piece to my Stream.tpa which ate up about 4 seconds, and then when I tried to import a second file of a similar length, it took double the time, and this continues as the file gets larger. Not to mention the program tends to hang quite frequently when repeatedly opening the .TPA file to add more sounds (another unnecessary step if I might say so).
With that in mind, do we happen to have a tool for quick TPA batch importing? I have all of my files named appropriately (AMB-WATERFALLLARGE-01.wav, etc) to what they should be in-game, and having to manually name them all through TPA Reader just adds a seemingly unnecessary extra step to the process. What I'd like to see is a program that you can simply drag and drop your wave files into (or select them via menu of course), and it automatically imports them all with the name you assigned to the .wav or .cau file in alphabetical order. This would save an insane amount of time importing. It would also be great to have a way to edit the name, subtitles and whether or not they classify as EFT status freely, perhaps in the format of some text boxes and switches. Basically all of TPA Reader's features, but with the ability to edit after the import and batch import. And preferably without all the lag, of course.
Would anyone be able to write this program, or point me to a tool that has all of the above that I am requesting? I'm fully aware of the batch importer, but it requires a lot of extra time writing each line of code and is a bit difficult for newbies. At the moment, I'm thinking the BAT importer is the best way to go, since TPA Reader becomes unusable quite quickly when you start making larger TPA files which use longer sounds, but again there's the coupe of issues I mentioned above. Still, the BAT converter is adequate if nobody feels like making a new program.
With that in mind, do we happen to have a tool for quick TPA batch importing? I have all of my files named appropriately (AMB-WATERFALLLARGE-01.wav, etc) to what they should be in-game, and having to manually name them all through TPA Reader just adds a seemingly unnecessary extra step to the process. What I'd like to see is a program that you can simply drag and drop your wave files into (or select them via menu of course), and it automatically imports them all with the name you assigned to the .wav or .cau file in alphabetical order. This would save an insane amount of time importing. It would also be great to have a way to edit the name, subtitles and whether or not they classify as EFT status freely, perhaps in the format of some text boxes and switches. Basically all of TPA Reader's features, but with the ability to edit after the import and batch import. And preferably without all the lag, of course.
Would anyone be able to write this program, or point me to a tool that has all of the above that I am requesting? I'm fully aware of the batch importer, but it requires a lot of extra time writing each line of code and is a bit difficult for newbies. At the moment, I'm thinking the BAT importer is the best way to go, since TPA Reader becomes unusable quite quickly when you start making larger TPA files which use longer sounds, but again there's the coupe of issues I mentioned above. Still, the BAT converter is adequate if nobody feels like making a new program.