QUESTION (edit/remove)tyre squealing sounds on dirt surface

[Arachnus]

Hello guys, i´ve been here for a while, reading and learning a lot of modding stuff, following some threads, but never really posted anything while i was creating a local race track from scratch for AC, I really like this forum and want to first, thank the guys that digged throught a lot on ac modding, thank you!!!

This is my first thread/post here, i´m looking for some info on the tire squealing sounds, my track has 4 layouts one of the layouts is a dirt road, (sort of) "a rally" layout, everything is fine, but i cannot find anyway to edit/remove/replace, the squealing sound. I´ve created a "dirty" surface to race on this layout, i´m thinking that that the tire squealing sound maybe is hardcoded? if it´s a "racing" surface, it´ll load anyway with the cars, not with the track? i really don´t know. I´ve searched a tad on AC support forum and here, but found nothing about this.

I´ve added sand sound to this surface on surfaces.ini, came out very nice, but i would like to remove squealing sounds on the dirt surface, any of you managed to edit, found where is the control of this tire squealing thing please?

Cheers.

 

[luchian]

Hi there, welcome to the posting side .

..hmm, this is actually interesting, I did not play with it. Do you mean that when defining a new surface of some sort, the engine asumes it's tarmac and by default it will squeal ?

Also when braking&locking the wheels ? It sounds like rubber on asphalt ?

If yes, what about using sand/grass key instead and customize those ?

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[Arachnus]

Hi there, welcome to the posting side .

..hmm, this is actually interesting, I did not play with it. Do you mean that when defining a new surface of some sort, the engine asumes it's tarmac and by default it will squeal ?

Also when braking&locking the wheels ? It sounds like rubber on asphalt ?

If yes, what about using sand/grass key instead and customize those ?

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haha , thank you Luchian for the welcoming on the posting side, appreciate it.

I think if you set the physical value "1" before the surface name and it´s the only valid track, the engine will adopt such behavior, don´t know exactly, but since this Dirty surface it´s the only one set as valid track, maybe yes, the engine will throw the tyre squealing sounds on that surface, i hear the rubber on tarmac sounds every time i push on corners, locking brakes etc, as it should work on a normal asphault track, i´d like to get rid of just this at just this surface.

i really would like to use my created "1DIRTY" surface tag, as i´m already using the common ones, GRASS, SAND, ROAD, around the race track and other layouts too, i did tried using a modified GRASS/GRAVEL copy, but then i got the grass/gravel sound on the entire road, sand was the same, you can edit the damping, friction/grip, but the sounds was still there, on the Dirty surface i created, i assigned another sand effect, more natural to tires rolling on dirt, i didn´t tried every other surface on the vanilla menu yet, with more time maybe one will fit, but seems that if the engine think that is the racing surface, it´ll throw the squeals with the cars.

i have some free time today, i´ll try more experiments, any find i´ll let you know, thank you!

Cheers

 

[Arachnus]

Hello!

Well, i did a small testpad to try some custom surfaces, unfortunatelly with no luck, the "is valid track" thing has nothing to do with squealing sounds, i only got rid of the squealing sounds and skidmarks on the vanilla GRASS surface, but then you can´t assign other sound sources, it always load the default one, you can make it more drivable, but the thing is that,with any other custom surface based on a copy of the GRASS tag, example: GRASS-RUN, GRASS_RALLY, GRASS-Race.., it automatically become a custom surface for the engine(not treated as grass anymore), then the squealing sound and skidmarks are back.

really don´t have any more ideas hahah

Cheers

 

[luchian]

IIRC, there should be a field in the ini for specific surface to assign a specific sound ?
(But that maybe worked in the early days when fmod was not introduced yet ?)

...arrrgh.. away with work, can't test

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[Arachnus]

IIRC, there should be a field in the ini for specific surface to assign a specific sound ?
(But that maybe worked in the early days when fmod was not introduced yet ?)

...arrrgh.. away with work, can't test

Don´t worry Luchian i´m a little busy right now to, we get there hahha! thank you

indeed there´s still a line on the surfaces, where you can assign .wav files but when you use the GRASS tag and assign a specific .wav, it will load the vanilla grass sound, i think it´s a case of priority on the engine, don´t know for sure.

on "dirty", "escape", "concrete", any of the custom tags, i´m assigning the wavs easily, but on grass it won´t load the sound specified on the surfaces.ini.

 

[GT VIRUS]

Can you try putting a blank .wav file to the WAV= section and see if that gets rid of it?

 

[Arachnus]

Can you try putting a blank .wav file to the WAV= section and see if that gets rid of it?

Hello GT VIRUS, i could try this, but i think it will not solve what i´m trying to do, i´m trying to have a custom surface "1DIRTY" (or any custom tag, i´ve changed this a few times), working with a "sand.wav" (already on vanilla ac sound banks folder) file, set on "WAV=" line, till here everything is fine, but then i need this custom surface to don´t show skidmarks and tire squealing sounds.

 

[Kudlaty]

Hi, I'm new here, and new to track modding. I don't like to necro years old threads, but I have very similar probem/question that fits here, and I can't find anything anywhere.

What I want to achive is sound of tire rolling on cobblestone or bricks, something like driving over kerb.
Question is: Is it possible to use custom sound for it ? Can I just put .wav file somewhere in track folder and point it in surface.ini like: WAV=content\tracks\mytrack\mysound.wav (tried doing that in many ways with no results, maybe I'm missing something really simple here?) or do I have to create/modify .bank file ? (If I understand these hold sound files)
I tried adding "WAV=kerb.wav" to my surface definition and it worked, maybe I could even somehow adjust it with pitch but that's still just not sounding right. Also, this sound fades out, so it's not continous...

@luchian Your tutorial on basic track modding is one of best tutorials I've ever seen! It made everything really easy

 

[luchian]

Hi, welcome
I am not at all an expert in sound modding, but indeed most of (all ?) the sounds are nowadays inside the bank file. However, iirc, I think there is some official Kunos track that has cobbles (maybe Highlands ? or Nords ?) have a look. And see what the name is in the surfaces.ini. If you are lucky, you will find some and use that.

LE: I had a quick look - no sign of any other wav than the kerb & co.

 

[Gunnar333]

Would be nice to see a solution. I want to change the ambient sound for my track too. But no success. [emoji853]

 

[Johnr777]

Would be nice to see a solution. I want to change the ambient sound for my track too. But no success. [emoji853]

The latest shader patch allows a custom bank file to be used on a track, so you can use your own ambient sounds.

 

[Gunnar333]

So how to build a bank file?