[WIP] San Andreas Audio Toolkit (SAAT)

[-bOOgiEmAN- 0]

First off, pdescobar, you da freaking mang, mang. Thank you for hookin up the app for this.

 

I have listened to literally thousands of soundclips from this game and still cannot locate the police in the helicoptor clips.

I have extracted every SFX file and still cant find them. Ive been at it for numerous hours. I have resorted to asking here.

Does anyone know which folder and bank?

Even just the folder would be a huge help.

Thanks alot!

[-bOOgiEmAN- 0]

SPC_FA\Bank_011

I listened to about fifty thousand soundclips today till I just found it.

' ITS TIME TO SHUT YOU UP ASSHOLE! '

I think im gonna go kill someone now .

[BigBadBob 0]

does anyone have a copy of the gui they could upload or send to me?

 

I keep getting problems with the command line, too many parameters or something.

[pdescobar 9]

 

does anyone have a copy of the gui they could upload or send to me?

 

I keep getting problems with the command line, too many parameters or something.

I have no idea on the licensing of Mr Cheater's gui frontend so I won't publicly post a link, but I can send you a copy from when I downloaded it; just PM me and I'll point you where to go. Note that it currently only does extraction and if you have problems using it, Mr Cheater's the person to ask.

 

As for using the command line, check through some of the examples in the manual or on the last couple pages of this topic.

 

 

@-bOOgiEmAN-: sorry I wasn't around to point you in the right direction, but I'm glad you found what you were looking for. I had listed that bank as "Coast Guard Officers" in the Directory. Guess I got that one wrong if the helicopter officer's voices are there.

[BigBadBob 0]

I got things worked out. The actual extraction and reimport wasn't a problem for me, I was having trouble getting it to work on my setup.

 

SA is installed on a different drive. And I wasn't putting the qutation marks in to navigate to a different directory. Kept saying too many paramaters.

 

A buddy helped my out with it. All is good.

 

Very handy tool. good job. Once I got the command line thing worked out, it was a simple matter of extracting the files, moving my new one into the correct folder, and importing. Works perfectly.

[MR_Q 0]

I've been waiting for an audio editor to come out. I thank you.

 

I seem to be having some trouble, and Im not sure if its my fault or what, but my goal was to add better weapon sounds. I managed to get the shotgun and the pistols firing sounds to work, though the quality leaves much to be desired, but when I changed the MP5 sound there was some unpleasent results. The sound change went fine, though still scratchy like all the other sounds I added, but I noticed some other sounds changed for a reason I cant explain. For example, when I would kick a guy when he was down, it would play an engine sound. I changed the sound back to the original and it went back to normal again.

 

I also tried switching the AK sound and the machine pistols sounds with the same result. I tried replacing them with the same sound I used for the pistols and they too dont work. Im not quite sure what to do. I have all the sounds converted to 44000 16 bit mono, as was reccomended. Anyone have any ideas whats wrong?

 

Besides the stated issue, Im really pleased with the program. Well done

[OnanManiak 0]

This is my uncompleted GUI :

 

 

I must complete detection filename from foldername in packing options

Edited August 14, 2006 by OnanManiak

[OnanManiak 0]

I've been waiting for an audio editor to come out. I thank you.

 

I seem to be having some trouble, and Im not sure if its my fault or what, but my goal was to add better weapon sounds. I managed to get the shotgun and the pistols firing sounds to work, though the quality leaves much to be desired, but when I changed the MP5 sound there was some unpleasent results. The sound change went fine, though still scratchy like all the other sounds I added, but I noticed some other sounds changed for a reason I cant explain. For example, when I would kick a guy when he was down, it would play an engine sound. I changed the sound back to the original and it went back to normal again.

 

I also tried switching the AK sound and the machine pistols sounds with the same result. I tried replacing them with the same sound I used for the pistols and they too dont work. Im not quite sure what to do. I have all the sounds converted to 44000 16 bit mono, as was reccomended. Anyone have any ideas whats wrong?

 

Besides the stated issue, Im really pleased with the program. Well done

Hmm,i dont know where is problem,you are used modified config folder for game playing,or original ???

 

Or may be is incorrect file name of sounds,you are modified sfx_import.ini ???

[OnanManiak 0]

I now see,you program isnt gui-friendly

Command line tool must have " letter if you using path with spaces.

aka:

"C:\Documents and Settings\"

 

no

 

C:\Documents and Settings\

 

But your program saw error when i tryed using this letter (").

 

 

 

 

Is very very difficul to make program which detect spaces in path but i try make it

Edited August 14, 2006 by OnanManiak

[pdescobar 9]

@MR_Q: That is a problem which has been seen before and I have no idea what the exact problem is. Sometimes, it can be a symptom of the Banklkup.dat file being corrupted (for example, if a backup copy of an archive was restored but the Banklkup.dat wasn't and then SAAT is rerun.

 

But other times it seems to happen even if everything has been done correctly. It's as if SA's internal audio handling gets messed up after playing certain sound files. For example, another modder used SAAT to try and insert new helicopter sounds for the Maverick for a helicopter mod. After the game played his sounds, the footstep sounds went all screwy even though they are stored in a completely different (and unmodified) archive.

 

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Please note I am calling all "\" characters "slashes" rather than the more precise "backslashes" in the following because I'm a lazy typist.

 

@OnanManiak: You have run into problems and limitations of the windows command shell. The shell actually processes the commandline and then calls SAAT with a list of arguments which SAAT then attempts to interpret as a command. Since a space is an argument separator, complex paths which contain spaces must be enclosed in quotes so that the entire path is seen as a single argument. However, the command shell completely blows the parsing of

"C:\"

 

because it thinks that the slash-quote is an attempt to escape the quotation mark and so it sends that on to the program as

C:"

 

 

You have to work around this limitation by doubling the last slash if and only if the path ends in a slash. This may be easier to see in a set of examples:

 

Here is the output of a program that does nothing but spit back out its arguments (enclosed in curly braces). This first example shows what the shell is doing with the "C:\"

 

D:\Temp>args "C:\foo bar\baz" "C:\"The commandline had 3 argumentsArgument 0 is {D:\TEMP\ARGS.EXE}Argument 1 is {C:\foo bar\baz}Argument 2 is {C:"}

Note how Argument 1 is processed properly and the quotes are discarded by the shell before it passes the argument to SAAT but argument 2 gets interpreted differently than the user probably expects.

 

Now, here is what happens if you double the slash for the second argument, resulting in "C:\\"

 

D:\Temp>args "C:\foo bar\baz" "C:\\"The commandline had 3 argumentsArgument 0 is {D:\TEMP\ARGS.EXE}Argument 1 is {C:\foo bar\baz}Argument 2 is {C:\}

In that case, both are processed correctly.

 

However, you can only double the slash in that special case where it is followed by a quotation mark and will be misinterpreted otherwise. Because if you tried to just double all the slashes, the shell would pass those along unmolested in argument 1:

 

D:\Temp>args "C:\\foo bar\\baz" "C:\\"The commandline had 3 argumentsArgument 0 is {D:\TEMP\ARGS.EXE}Argument 1 is {C:\\foo bar\\baz}Argument 2 is {C:\}

 

 

So the overall approach an add-on gui should take is to:

• look at the path that has been input/selected,
• make sure it isn't already wrapped in quotes,
• double the last slash if and only if the path ends in a slash,
• and then wrap the whole thing in quotes before sending it to the command shell.

[OnanManiak 0]

Yes,Yes this will help me,its now working but iam must made difficul function.

 

Thanx

[Spy3D 0]

GUI with import ability will be perfect.

 

@pdescobar: is it possible to import 1 individually file at a time, like if i want to send some1 a car sound (who dont know how to use saat) with saat and the sound i want him to replace with a readme just telling him where to put the tool (run it by cmd) and without sending all the original SA banks and sounds with it, this will save my upload time.

 

Thanx, this tool Rocks

[pdescobar 9]

GUI with import ability will be perfect.

 

@pdescobar: is it possible to import 1 individually file at a time, like if i want to send some1 a car sound (who dont know how to use saat) with saat and the sound i want him to replace with a readme just telling him where to put the tool (run it by cmd) and without sending all the original SA banks and sounds with it, this will save my upload time.

 

Thanx, this tool Rocks

There is no way to simply insert a file into the archive currently (and there probably never will be ) You have to do a full export and import for the archive you want to change. What I would suggest you do is something like this:

 

1) verify the location of your friend's SA install directory, a temp directory to do the export, and that he/she has enough free space to temporarily export the archive

2) since you know the directories, you can write a batch file with the saat command to export that archive and another with the import command.

3) name the sound file you are sending to your friend so that it's got the same name as the exported sound it will replace (e.g sound_006.wav)

 

Then you can send them the batch files, saat, and your sound file along with simple instructions like this:

1) double-click the supplied export.bat

2) copy the sound_006.wav file into c:\temp\GENRL\Bank_003 replacing the one that's there

3) double-click the supplied import.bat

4) delete c:\temp\GENRL

 

Of course you want to be sure they backup the archive and lookup files first, just in case, but something like that should be a pretty easy method for them.

[BMWPower 0]

I made some radiostations a month ago, and they were on my GTA, but i had to reinstall my windows so i uploaded them in a server. Then i have downloaded them replaced the files in streams folder and they don't work now, only adverts. I'm sure that the files are uploaded downloaded to 100%.

Then i decided to export and import again. I exported, but when i tried to import again:

 

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8577/untitledmq3.jpg

 

Pdescobar, please help me, i spent so much time making them, i don't want to start again, i'm sure there's a way to get them work again..

[pdescobar 9]

 

I made some radiostations a month ago, and they were on my GTA, but i had to reinstall my windows so i uploaded them in a server. Then i have downloaded them replaced the files in streams folder and they don't work now, only adverts. I'm sure that the files are uploaded downloaded to 100%.

Did you back up the TrakLkup.dat file with the streams? That tells the game how to find an individual track to play and if you have modified streams but the original lookup file, that would cause a problem.

 

 

Then i decided to export and import again. I exported, but when i tried to import again:

 

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8577/untitledmq3.jpg

 

Pdescobar, please help me, i spent so much time making them, i don't want to start again, i'm sure there's a way to get them work again.. 

You need to supply a lookup file argument on the import. What you should do is reimport each of your modified streams and supply the games Traklkup.dat file as the third option and after all have been imported again it should hopefully work.

[BMWPower 0]

I know, but i didn't back up it, because my tracks are named Track_001, 002 etc. I just relaced the original tracks, and i don't have custom file names.

..?

[pdescobar 9]

The lookup file has nothing to do with track names; it contains the file offset locations for the track headers within each stream. Since you've exported the modified streams, just reimport them all using the default lookup file; each import will update its portion of the lookup file so when you're done the lookup file should be completely updated and all your custom stations should work.

 

So for example, to reimport the RG stream like in your screenshot, do

 

saat_stream -i audio\streams\RG c:\temp\saat\RG\stream_import.ini audio\config\traklkup.dat

 

(all on one line)

 

But don't try running the game until you've reimported everything. And next time, backup the TrakLkup.dat file along with the streams.

[BMWPower 0]

Oh, i forgot to write this for the .dat file..

10x, dude

 

Big greets!

[Pho3niXx 0]

I just made a GUI.

it can export for the moment.

 

 

 

i'll do import part when i'll have time.

 

Get it HERE

Edited September 4, 2006 by Pho3niXx

[Whizz 0]

Wtf does this mean?

 

Creating stream audio\streams\CH

  from INI file C:\temp\saat\CH\stream_import.ini

  and lookup file audio\CONFIG\TrakLkup.dat

Processing Tracks (130 total)...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10...11...12

...13...14...15...16...17...18...19...20...21...22...23...24...25...26...27...28

...29...30...31...32...33...34...Error writing stripped input file C:\temp\saat\

CH\Track_034.ogg to memory buffer: Error writing stream to output. Output stream

may be corrupted or truncated.

 

Track_034.ogg is working, so it's not that the Ogg is corrupt or something.

It's quite big, could that be the problem?

[Pho3niXx 0]

 

Track_034.ogg is working, so it's not that the Ogg is corrupt or something.

It's quite big, could that be the problem?

OGG file has been modified?!

 

you have probably to edit the ini file too

[Whizz 0]

Yes, the file is modified.

What do I have to change in the ini file?

Edited September 5, 2006 by Whizz

[Pho3niXx 0]

I read this in the original Manual

 

" Streams

 

Currently, SAAT will only accept Ogg Vorbis files for stream import. The

bitrate shouldn't matter but the unmodified game uses variable bitrate

files so that would be the preference. The most important thing is that the

Ogg Vorbis files must be in stereo. If you import a mono file, it will play

at double speed resulting in a "chipmunk" effect. If you have a mono file,

make a stereo file out of it by duplicating the original single track for

both the left and right channels before importing. "

[Whizz 0]

Yes, but SAAT doesn't even put it in the output stream..

[Pho3niXx 0]

Is it the original CH file ???!

 

mine works properly

[Whizz 0]

well, yeah it was

Now it's a 0 KB file because SAAT failed to do anything with it

[Pho3niXx 0]

OK try to get it back from the DVD and export it again

[Whizz 0]

Same thing.

He can't write it, but I don't know why

Ok, I'll wait

Edited September 5, 2006 by Whizz

[Pho3niXx 0]

give me few hours

i'll post Gui For SAAT 1.1 it should works fine

and with import function too

Edited September 5, 2006 by Pho3niXx

[Pho3niXx 0]

Well it's done.

 

FINAL VERSION RELEASED

 

I made a Fully Functionnal GUI For SAAT (i called it GFS)

it can import, export, sounds and streams

 

i don't have implemented RFSA mode. (parameter -r)

 

 

The Setup is 872Kb

 

GET IT HERE !!!

 

if you have problems PM me

Edited September 5, 2006 by Pho3niXx