Shared sound in MP

[VFRHawk]

Hi,

 

I've designed a mission in DCS using the F15C from FC3, with two flyable aircraft for me and a friend to fly in MP. The mission starts with our airfield under attack, so the air raid siren is running.

 

I've got the sound effect to work fine for me by setting an event that plays the .wav file, question is, will DCS automatically share the sound file with the other player, or will I need to get him to copy the file to the exact same location on his PC before we start?

 

Many Thanks

Graham

[Paganus]

No your friend doesn't need the file before you fly.

 

Sound files that are added to the mission in the mission editor are embedded into the mission file when you save it. All that data is transferred to each client when the connect and the mission loads for them.

 

Just remember the more data you add, the bigger the mission file becomes, making the load time longer.

Edited August 29, 2013 by Paganus

[Fouga]

Same as for briefing images ; all this stuff is integrated info the mission.miz file.

Maybe you could use low quality sounds in order to avoid big files.

[Devrim]

Even the wav file is small size, I suggest compress it to OGG file format.

I don't know if you work with sound files, but it would be nice to download any edit software (such as "Audacity") and convert the wav files.

[VFRHawk]

Thanks everyone, that's what I needed to know. :thumbup:

[sereupin]

could I have your mp mission ? I am pretty curious of what and how you made this sound as how you edited and insert it in the miz...

 

thanks! :)

[VFRHawk]

Sure, it's just a simple trigger for time > 1 and play sound to coalition...

 

Mission is supposed to be one in a series, until I couldn't work out how to build a campaign for MP. :music_whistling: It's not really finished yet, but it's just about playable for 1 or 2 F15's.

Airfield Defense.rar

Edited August 31, 2013 by VFRHawk

[Ranger79]

Tutorial video on downsizing sound file size and converting to .ogg file format