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INSOMNIAX SOUND PACK FOR DARK AGE OF CAMELOT
Version 1.65, 10/20/2003 by *IX*Led Mirage and Rickmanx
Compatible with DAOC v1.65 ONLY( Including Shrouded Isles )
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*IMPORTANT*

If you're concerned about this Sound Pack containing any funky code
or being a hack or anything like that please read the HOW IT WORKS
section below - this Sound pack does NOT include ANY programing of
any kind, only *.wav (Wave Audio files)and 4 new definition files
for them in the *.csv (comma separated value) format which you can
open and look at in ANY text editor.

In order for the sound pack to work you will have to extract four
small definition text files (*.csv) after the initial non-optional
file-check, if you don't do this everytime after the file-check the
game will use the original sounds until you copy those four files
over the original ones. More on this on the RUNNING THE SOUND PACK
section below.

Essentially the Sound Pack has to be enabled on a per session basis
- sorry, but it's the only way to do it right now. Please read the
installation section below for more details.

Everytime there's a new version of DAOC you should check with us to
see if a new version is required - more on this on the CONTACT &
FEEDBACK section below.


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DESCRIPTION
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This Sound Pack Adds sound events for some that didn't have any
before and replaces the majority of the game sounds (*.wav) with new
improved ones which were gathered, edited, sampled, mixed and tested
during close to two weeks to make sure they worked as intended, these
sounds are not low quality nor are they simply copied over, a lot of
work was put into making them fit the mood of the game as well as be
appropiate (you won't find any goofy sounds here).

High-lites of this Sound Pack :

* New unique sounds for one-handed blunt weapons (Hit, Parry, Block,
Miss, Critical Hit, etc).

* New unique sounds for Polearms/Staves weapons (Hit, Parry, Block,
Miss, Critical Hit, etc).

* New unique sounds for Slash/Thrust weapons (Hit, Parry, Block,
Miss, Critical Hit, etc).

* New unique sounds for Shield Styles events (Hit, Critical Hit,
, Miss, Arrow Blocks, etc). Before there was no sound at all!

* New Sounds for Musical Instruments - Real Medieval Instruments that
match the actual instrument (instead of a harp for a lute!)

* Majority of the spell sounds replaced with new ones, those that
weren't were edited for better sound (Hiss Removal, Smooth Ends, etc.)
and a few that didn't have a sound now have one (Cleric Instant AE)

* Majority of Monster sounds replaced with new ones

* Some new better ambience sounds

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HOW IT WORKS
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First of all this Sound pack does NOT include ANY programing code or
automated anything of any kind, only *.wav (Wave Audio files) and 4
new definition files for them in the *.csv (comma separated value)
format which Mythic uses which you can open and look at in any text
editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.) and please do if you have any doubts
or want to know how this sound pack was made.

In order to actually have a Mod of any kind for DAOC, I had to figure
out a way to reduce the auto-downloading of files since the game has
a non-optional file-check which will find any modified files including
wave audio files, bitmap images, and then download the original files.
If I had just replaced existing sounds you would have to download all
the sounds replaced from Mything EVERYTIME you ran the game, ugh! talk
about a waste of bandwidth! Luckily for all of us there is an ok way
to work around this dilemma, there are small (1 to 25kb) text files
that define the sounds in the game and give them an ID number for the
game, here is where redefining oldmythic.wav with newnohiss.wav will
tell the game to not use the oldmythic.wav file and instead use the
newnohiss.wav which happened to not be included on the non-optional
file-check, which means they don't get downloaded everytime you run
the game, hence not wasting Mythic's Bandwidth and your time :)

The *.CSV files will be downloaded EVERYTIME the game is started and
you will have to copy over the new *.CSV definition files over at the
point before you log in and hit ok but after the initial file-check.
There are way to make this automated through batchfiles or even an
executable program but given the sensitive nature of On-line RPG's
this could lead to people thinking this Sound Pack is a hack or one of
those sad schemes to get peoples login information for malicious intent.

THIS IS NOT A HACK, EXECUTABLE, REVERSED ENGINEERED, OR OTHERWISE
MALICIOUS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY.

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UNINSTALLATION - (If Needed)
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1) Simply delete all the wave audio files in the ..\Camelot\Sounds
folder that start with the name ix_ (delete ix_*.wav)

2) Run the Game once.


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RUNNING THE SOUND PACK
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1) Run the game - The following 4 files will be found to be different
and automatically downloaded from Mythic :

monsnds.csv
objsnds.csv
sndfiles.csv
splsnds.csv

2) After the patcher has finished patch double-click on the
"DAOC SoundPack Loader" icon on your desktop.

3) Log in and play

4) Next time you go through the file-check you will have to repeat this
small process, but it's worth it! Enjoy :)


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DISCLAIMER
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THIS IS NOT A HACK, EXECUTABLE, REVERSED ENGINEERED, OR OTHERWISE
MALICIOUS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY. Feel free to open the 4 included *.CSV
files to confirm any doubts you may have, and then please enjoy this
soundpack =)

If Aliens take over Earth after you install this Sound Pack it is not my
fault, if you enjoy the game more after you install this Sound Pack then
it is all MY FAULT! =)

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CREDITS
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All the work was done by me LedMirage, took about 2 weeks of playing
and tweaking while making my friends help me try out the sounds as well
as it came along. The Musical instrument sounds were found by my gaming
wife whom really couldn't stand the wannabe Lute Harp sound =)

Credit also goes to all the original authors of many of the sounds which
while very modified and edited were used as source material, you may be
able to recognize some of the sounds from other games, specially the
monster sounds as that is where I did the less editing of all.

Feel free to distribute this add-on as long as it is 100% free of
charge and the contents of the zip file remain unmodified. Enjoy :)


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CONTACT & FEEDBACK
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You can contact me by e-mail at LedMirage@insomniax.net or find me
in-game on either Guinevere (Midgard) through Shadows of the Unseen
or in Nimue (Albion) through Vae Victus (the guilds I belong to).

Visit www.insomniax.net and our DAOC Public Message boards to tell us what
you think of our Sound Pack =)

Everytime there's a new version of DAOC you should check with us to
see if a new version is required, this will be up on our forums and news
page over at www.insomniax.net


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STUFF YOU CAN HELP US WITH
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So you enjoy this Sound Pack a lot? Want to Help us out in one or another?
Then please tell Mythic that User Mods for sounds, GUI Images and music
should be supported =)

Oh and help us out in our crusade to making Mythic see that they have a
potentially big problem resulting in deletion of character due to renaming
them before a patch, our friend *IX*Medic739 (AbraKapokus in Guinevere) had
3 of his characters deleted when they were supposed to have been renamed
while his account was temporarily suspended (due to name violation), Mythic
says it was done on the user side and we know this isn't posible as it even
happened while the account was suspended and only the characters that the
CSR told him afterwards were renamed were the ones that got deleted only,
this happened mind you during the servers being down for the 1.44 patch.

More info on this will be posted on our forum shortly. Thanks for listening =)

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