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Re: BG NPC Sounds

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From: drag...
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 09:40
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On Monday, 25 January 1999 08:00:00 UTC, Charles J. Ozinga  wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to extract the NPC sounds from Baldur's gate into
> normal wav files? Conversely, is there anyway to change the default NPC
> sounds? Heck, even posting the file format specs of the appropriate file(s)
> would be enough for me.
> 
> thanks

How to extract the sounds I don't know. If what you need is to change the sound files of NPC's I can give a hint, but not the whole thing because I have a similar problem. I'll state what I found out:

I (tried, and) made a few changes on that, after a big new installation. I wanted to replay this excellent classic again and I tried a ton of mods to make my experience a bit newer. So, I installed easyTutu to play BG1 on BG2's skin (successfully I might add) and all went well with one exception: Kivan became mute.

So what I found out about changing NPC's sounds is: you only have to add .wav files into the Override directory using this format -> X...XZZ.wav <- where X...X is the character name and ZZ is a number from 01 up to 22 (here I can't tell for sure the max). The character name you must found out exactly which is. I used ShadowKeeper to found the name of the character which, on my case, was simple enough: Kivan. But I saw while searching that some characters aren't that straightforward.

My problem now is, and I think that it might be yours too, I don't know the meanings of those numbers 01-whatever, except that they represent each action of the character. If someone please know about that order of actions please tell.
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