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All right, all right—something's wrong.

I'm trying to import new sounds into my TPA file that I plan to use for my level, "Craters." So far, no luck.
The First thing I tried to do is use Audacity, seeing that I already have it installed. Made my sound 16-bit, mono, at a 22050 sample rate, saved as a IMA ADPCM .wav sound file. Then I tried to convert into a .cau for TPA_Reader, and it gives me an error. I tried a test to see if I was converting or importing incorrectly by using a .wav from another TPA, but that file imported just fine. I opened both files up in Audacity to compare them, but I saw no differences (other than the Bit-Rate, but I don't think that should affect anything). But after seeing other posts on this thread about Microsoft's IMA ADPCM not having the correct block size or something like that, I decided to try Rebel's encoder here...

I got the same thing as Draco did:

Although I don't quite understand Machf's explanation:

Anyone care to clarify on how I "drag 'n drop" to convert them?

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Don't run the program... make a shortcut for it on your desktop (or wherever you like), then drag the file you want to open on top of the shortcut.

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Similarly to how you'd drag files into a folder, except you're dragging onto a shortcut...

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... Ok...

Yep! Works fine now. Sorry for the trouble—Thanks! Never thought of that

EDIT: But, now how do I assign an '$Name' to a sound?

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Well, if you're using tpa_reader, type in the stringname & any caption data you want assigned to the wave before you import the .cau file into the .tpa. There's a complete help file with the program, just hit the ? button, or go into the readers folder to access the hhp file directly. Note: you can only encode pcm files, and microsoft ima/pcms do not work in trespasser, therefore tpa_reader does not allow you to convert them into a .cau file for import.

All right. Everything's working now. The sounds are playing fine in-game. I just thought that since I could see the names of the sounds when looking in other .tpas, I would be able to see them in mine. It just shows: "missing" Although the sounds still play just fine.

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Your new stringnames can be found inside the reader's log files, awesome. Look thru the help file, it'll tell you how to add your new crc values so they can be picked up by the reader.

Ahh... help files. Where would we be without them? I think I read it earlier when I was failing to convert them, I guess I didn't read them closly enough. Thanks for adding that little file. TPA_reader shows me the names of the sounds. Just to prove I'm not lying, here's a screenshot:

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An $Name! Thanks for the help, Rebel.

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Soooo I grabbed tpas_pcm-encoder.zip Version: 1.0 and did a test sound of about 10 seconds with a human voice. Ingame result is absolutely awful. I am using Audacity... Got the 22050 and 16 bit specified, however there was nothing about setting block alignment. Recorded in mono. Help?

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Why don't you just use TPAreader?

Or EffectsEditor?

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Drac, it's been yeas since I messed with this, but I think you're going about this all wrong. Record
the voice in 44000 16bit stereo, then decoding that wav will put it into a tres compatible wav. So,
save your wave in 44000 16bit stereo/ima/dvi format, then decode.

Or, do as machf suggested and us the Effects Editor -

@Edit: Block alignments I may have mentioned in read me files is meant as additional information
for anyone who wanted to alter the program's code. Industry standard is 1024/2048, no other program
out there saves for trespasser's block alignments, except of course the Effects Editor.

Erm. Few options to play around with.

I tried the stereo format option. The encoding app of yours proceeds to tell me that it doesn't do stereo.

Also, what do we use around here to create CAU files for sounds not already in a TPA file?

And in general I'm unsure how to use EffectsEditor.

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Drac, below are the instructions included within encoder and decoder:

Encoder setup for trespasser use. Only mono, 22050 sample_rate .pcm waves can
be encoded into ima/dvi adpcms. If you have a stereo (44100 sample_rate) you
wish to encode, first convert it to single channel, 22050, then encode to ima/
dvi adpcm format.

The encoded waves are still not perfect, but they sound good enough to import
& use in_game. Much better than the original encoder released earlier - I al-
so took a temp_pcm wav (was a converted stereo to mono, 22050 for player use),
encoded and imported that and the music sounded quite good.


Reb.

Useage: Drag n' drop utility. Decodes ima/dvi adpcm (format 20) to standard
pcm wave.

Sample_rates: Code assumes mono as 22050 & stereo as 44100. Whether stereo
or mono, current code outputs mono, pcm wave. (The two sample_rates are the
only frequencies dealt with, so reading & writing out individual headers was
not needed -

The decoder class was searched out to decode the game trespasser's odd_ball
block alignment of 1028/2056. Although windows environment can play ima/dvi
waves natively, it does require standard block alignments of 512/1024. Thus,
looking to play the waves inside my audio program that was written to access
the game's packed audio files, I was lured into this decoding process -


Code is included, the ima class is courtesy of J.d. Medhurst (aka tixy). The
remainder of the mess is mine. Feel free to change the code in whatever way
you'd like, tailor it to meet your own needs. Hopefully, the next person to
require doing this sort of thing won't go insane looking for the solution -


Reb.

As for creating cau files, tpareader does that. The how to should be in the help
files. I'm pretty sure it's not complicated, but I can't remember the control layout.
It's just been too long for my feeble mind to recall -