Adding Sound Occasional Sound Effects Dynamic Mood Music Memorable Music Adding NARCOM Videos Generic NARCOM Videos

Adding Sound

Adding sound can add to the overall gaming experience of your mission.  There are just a few processes to note to make your sound function as you indicate.  GRAW2 uses "Bank Managers" to compile all of their audio files.  It is highly recommended that you download Nemon's Bank Manager so that you can listen to the music and sound wav files within each bank.  You can download it here -> http://www.ghostrecon.net/files2/index.php?act=view&id=996 

For ambient, mood and memorable music and sounds for your missions, you must enter the sound file(s) that you pull the music from in the world_info.xml as well as add the type.  Please see below for an example.

For NARCOM video, general sounds, chatter between ghosts, etc., you do not need to load each individual bank to where you pull in the sound.  Note that the more sound that you reference in the world_info.xml, the more memory that you will use as all are preloaded.

Occasional Sound Effects

The occasional sound effects are sounds like rolling waves on the island maps, chirping birds in the woods or the distant cannon fire in a shanty town.  To add occasional sound effects, enter this line in your mission.xml

Typically, for coop maps you will want to put this line in the "start_mission" event to begin random occasional sounds.  If I continue to use the world_info.xml sounds that I preloaded, you would begin to hear industrial war sounds from the sound bank located in your data\sounds\environment\ambience_industrial_war directory.  For a full list of effects, use the Nemon Bank Manger and open the ambience_industrial_war_sound.bank.

Dynamic Mood Music

Dynamic mood music changes automatically according to the activity within the game.  You can also force the volume and intensity of the mood music that you wish to play.  Once again, assure that you have added the appropriate line in the world_info.xml.

Add the following line to begin your mood music:

You can also change the intensity and mood of your mood music by adding one of the following lines:

Note that each wav file will play through it's entire sequence and will auto transition to the next mood and intensity level very smoothly.  To find out more about the "ForceMusic" switches, go to page 44 of the GRAW2 Scripting for Beginners Guide.

Memorable Music

Adding NARCOM Videos

The NARCOM video sequences that appear in the upper right hand portion of your screen are fairly easy to add to create additional moods, urgency, alert your players, etc.  The NARCOM Videos for GRAW2 are already preset within the actor managers located in your data\lib\managers\xml section and contain a combination of sounds (located in the data\sounds\missions folder) and Bink movies (located in the data\movies folder).

To add a NARCOM video, just add the following line in one of your events:

The actor="m10_objective02_c" is the combination of movies and audio that you would find in the actor_manager_m10.xml.

The most difficult portion about adding the NARCOM sequences is reviewing and sorting out all of the sequences in the actor_manager_{mission}.xml files, and then listening to all of the audio files.  So to make things a little easier, I've compiled a list of generic NARCOM sequences that you can use to add to your coop or campaign missions.  Please note that there is nothing that you need to add to the world_info.xml to make these work.

Generic NARCOM Videos