Sound mod: SFX decreasing and Music maintaining
Hey everyone.
I had a question on Portal 2 in connection with modding. I got this idea of increasing music volume and decreasing sfx volume of the game because the music is so good. What I encountered was this: 2 bars being 'Master Volume' and 'Music Volume'. If you increase or decrease the Master Volume's bar it changes both (sfx and music volume). If you decrease the music volume you're doing the opposite of what I want it to do, both bars are all the way turned up. So there's no way to keep music volume and decrease sfx volume.
So I was wondering, is there a mod out there for Portal 2 that can decrease sfx volume (and maintain music volume)? (Because I've searched for this all of the web and wasn't able to find it.)
If not, how much work would it be to write?
Help would be highly appreciated, as would a simple reply.
-Carl Hell
Someone please post a reply.
If you are modding, you can actually change this kind of options the game has. Sounds default settings are managed and specified into a bunch of .TXT files you have into your portal 2/portal2/scripts folder.
Take a look for instance to game_sounds.TXT:
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"Error"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NONE"
"wave" "error.wav"
}"General.BurningFlesh"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"volume" "0.45"
"wave" "npc/headcrab/headcrab_burning_loop2.wav"
}"General.BurningObject"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "ambient/fire/fire_small_loop2.wav"
}"General.StopBurning"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "ambient/fire/fire_small_loop_edit_01.wav"
"wave" "ambient/fire/fire_small_loop_edit_02.wav"
"wave" "ambient/fire/fire_small_loop_edit_03.wav"
}
}"Hud.Hint"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NONE"
"wave" "ui/hint.wav"
}"AI_BaseNPC.BodyDrop_Heavy"
{
"channel" "CHAN_BODY"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"pitch" "90"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard1.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard2.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard3.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard4.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard5.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard6.wav"
}
}"AI_BaseNPC.BodyDrop_Light"
{
"channel" "CHAN_BODY"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"volume" "0.90"
"pitch" "105"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard1.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard2.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard3.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard4.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard5.wav"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_impact_hard6.wav"
}
}"AI_BaseNPC.SwishSound"
{
"channel" "CHAN_BODY"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "npc/zombie/claw_miss2.wav"
}"AI_BaseNPC.SentenceStop"
{
"channel" "CHAN_VOICE"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_IDLE"
"wave" "common/null.wav"
}"BaseCombatCharacter.CorpseGib"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "physics/flesh/flesh_squishy_impact_hard2.wav"
}"BaseCombatCharacter.StopWeaponSounds"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "common/null.wav"
}"BaseCombatCharacter.AmmoPickup"
{
"channel" "CHAN_ITEM"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "items/ammo_pickup.wav"
}"BaseCombatWeapon.WeaponDrop"
{
"channel" "CHAN_VOICE"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"volume" "0.80"
"pitch" "95,110"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "physics/metal/weapon_impact_hard1.wav"
"wave" "physics/metal/weapon_impact_hard2.wav"
"wave" "physics/metal/weapon_impact_hard3.wav"
}
}"BaseCombatWeapon.WeaponMaterialize"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"pitch" "150"
"wave" "items/suitchargeok1.wav"
}"FX_RicochetSound.Ricochet"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_TALKING"
"volume" "0.50,0.60"
"pitch" "90,110"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "weapons/fx/rics/ric1.wav"
"wave" "weapons/fx/rics/ric2.wav"
"wave" "weapons/fx/rics/ric3.wav"
"wave" "weapons/fx/rics/ric4.wav"
"wave" "weapons/fx/rics/ric5.wav"
}
}"BaseExplosionEffect.Sound"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_GUNFIRE"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_01.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_02.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_03.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_04.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_05.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_generic_med_06.wav"
}
}"Explo.Distant"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_GUNFIRE"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_01.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_02.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_03.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_04.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_05.wav"
"wave" "props/explosions/explo_distant_med_06.wav"
}
}"Explo.SemiDistant01"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_GUNFIRE"
"wave" "props/explosions/a4_semi_distant_explosion_01.wav"
"soundentry_version" "2""operator_stacks"
{
"update_stack"
{
"import_stack" "p2_update_default"
"mixer"
{
"mixgroup" "xLoud"
}
}
}
}"Explo.SemiDistant02"
{
"channel" "CHAN_STATIC"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_GUNFIRE"
"wave" "props/explosions/a4_semi_distant_explosion_02.wav"
"soundentry_version" "2""operator_stacks"
{
"update_stack"
{
"import_stack" "p2_update_default"
"mixer"
{
"mixgroup" "xLoud"
}
}
}
}"Splash.SplashSound"
{
"channel" "CHAN_AUTO"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"volume" "0.75"
"pitch" "90,100"
"rndwave"
{
"wave" "ambient/water/water_spray1.wav"
"wave" "ambient/water/water_spray2.wav"
"wave" "ambient/water/water_spray3.wav"
}
}"PropaneTank.Burst"
{
"channel" "CHAN_WEAPON"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_90dB"
"pitch" "95,105"
"wave" "ambient/fire/gascan_ignite1.wav"
}"Default.Null"
{
"channel" "CHAN_BODY"
"soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM"
"wave" "common/null.wav"
"soundentry_version" "2""operator_stacks"
{
"start_stack"
{
"import_stack" "P2_null_start" //don't try to play wave
}
}
}
But there are like 38 files or so >.< Good luck 
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[spoiler]
[/spoiler]I spent about two hours searching in that folder but didn't find what I was looking for. I did find something which I changed and validated with steam. But the 'verify integrity of game cache' failed. So it didn't work, but there seems to be a different volume for every individual sound, so it would be crazy trying to do them one by one.
Isn't it possible to like make a seperate code file which just catches the music channel and multiplies it. Like: Get.MUSIC_CHANNEL; MUSIC_CHANNEL "volume" * 2. I know, I'm crap at coding, I think this is my worst and I'm throwing at least ten different languages into one simple line. But you get the idea. Wouldn't it be possible to do that? And how would you write it? josepezdj