GVP files

Pat Pattle

Pat Pattle

SOH-CM-2024
Going on from Rene's unwanted BoB sounds thread - In the sound file there are a number of GVP files. Air, Pilot, Wingman and Ground.

I can guess where Pilot and Wingman voices are used but what about the the Air and Ground ones (also there is no air_USA.gvp)?

Is this another tease that M$ left us with? Can they be edited??

ta,

Clive :0)
 
Being able to use the dialogs from cfs2 (ex.French voice pack) would be great.
 
Hi Clive,

I think that they are part of the stuff that never made it into the final product. We're certainly teased by the ground voice / interaction in the CFS3 opening movie!
However, there is an editor for the gvp. voicepacks. Ages ago I downloaded and installed one to take peek inside. I can't remember where and when but I think it was meant for one of the MS 'civvie' sims. If you look there, you should be able to find it. Could even be from MS itself.

Perhaps someone from the Desert Rats team knows; IIRC they did their own voice packs for MAW (Greek and Italian?).
 
Yes, they can be edited (I forget how) and I was once hoping to do new voice packs, but I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make voice recordings, so it never got off the ground, and now I have way too many irons in the fire to start a project like that.
 
Thanks for the links chaps :0)!

After a quick look I can see inside the gvp files but not edit or extract the voices yet.
It seems that M$ were teasing us, take a look at this lot! These are the British air, ground and wingman files, how good could cfs3 have been if they'd delayed release long enough to get everything working?

cfs3_gvp_zpssximslr9.jpg
 
GVP Files in CFS3 Battle of Britain

The 11 GVP sound files in CFS3 Battle of Britain seem to be the same 11 GVP sound files in my CLEAN COPY of CFS3. The three WINGMAN files are much larger files than the other eight GVP files.

Pat: Can you look inside the WINGMAN files?
 
Hi all,

I wonder if there is a way we can create new GVP files for CFS3? If we can compile these into a new GVP file, we'd have fantastic radio communication and more immersion!

I'll ask around at school on Monday and see what I can dig up.

Chris
 
There's some very interesting possibilities here (thanks to Daniels (Geckos) original work). :jump:

I've downloaded and de-compiled the Australian CFS2 voice pack:

http://simviation.com/1/browse-Misc-89-3


I've then created a new folder (BoB install) 'Australian' and put the Australian .wav files into it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mtgzkogbr6i1t8/sounds.zip?dl=0

Then following how Daniel put the entries in I added entries in the sounds.xml file so that the Aussie voices would be picked up in game.

I now have a smattering of Australian/New Zealand accents (sorry cobbers I can't tell the difference!) in my random radio chatter.

Providing we can compile new GVP files there's no reason why we couldn't now add new languages to CFS3 :)

The readme is pretty open for these Australian Voices so many thanjks to these guys:
"I am only the editor of this project. Much of the credit goes to Franz Von Baron for the tutorial and radio static file. Thanks are also due to Martin Wright for his SplitGVR program. The real stars, listed below, are those who recorded the raw audio files.
RC Cawte
Watchdog22
Matt Anderson


I see this as a community progect and anyone should feel free to improve or correct these files.

rufle@sbcglobal.net"
 

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Thank you for this rechearch.:encouragement:
The sound.xml you are using has a few typo errors ie... lass and ooping instead of class and looping. many of the games have this error in them.
There was a post on this, I think by Daiwilletti, you must of missed it.
 
is there anyway to make this CFS3 radio chatter more intense like in CFS2 ? i like CFS2 radio chatter seems has very powerful immersion ! maybe someone could export this CFS2 radio sounds to CFS3 :)
 
The sound.xml you are using has a few typo errors ie... lass and ooping instead of class and looping. many of the games have this error in them.
There was a post on this, I think by Daiwilletti, you must of missed it.
Click to expand...

Ah I had forgotten this, the file I used was from an old test install and I never updated it. Thanks for the reminder :)


maybe someone could export this CFS2 radio sounds to CFS3
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Well it can be done using the effects in the aircraft xdp as the trigger as Gecko did, it's a bit of legwork modding the files but do-able now we have the tools. Not sure that someone is me though!:running:
 
Maybe we can find a way to activate the files in the GVP files that weren't working? Unless it's something within the main coding within the games engine
 
think you can find French voice in CFS2 pack? the voices are missing in w40
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pensez vous pouvoir trouver des voix francaise dans cfs2 pack? les voix manquent dans w40:wavey:
 
I now have a set of French language wav files thanks to brundu841 :)

However I can't get the files to compile, anyone ever managed this? I think it's something to do with the file paths set up in the tool.
 
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