Adding my own sound effects to games.

[David M]

I have a strange problem here, although its not really a problem.

I want to add Cramer's soundboard effects to games like Left 4 Dead while I am playing them. In other words I want to be able to push the "House of Pain" button after the Tank crushes me and have other players hear it. I know I could just turn up the volume on my sound system and let others hear it through my microphone, but that would sound really distorted....like having a TV on in the background while playing a game. I want the sound to go through electronically in the microphone circuit, not through the air, so it sounds clear. There must be a way of dubbing in these sounds through the microphone circuit?

I have two monitors and I was figuring I could put the game on one monitor and have Cramer's soundboard on the other monitor. I have already done the dual monitor setup, that's easy.

Cramer's soundboard... http://www.cnbc.com/id/18724672/

[David M]

I just figured out how to do this.

[glc]

And that is.............?

[David M]

Dang...I have to give away my secret?

I used a second computer connected to the internet to bring up the Cramer's sound board. I then ran a 1/8 inch stereo connector from the sound output of the second computer to the microphone In port of the gaming computer. I put a 1/8 inch stereo splitter in at the microphone port so I can still use my headphones microphone. After that it was a matter of tweaking the volume level of the sound output on the second computer. The only disadvantage is that I have to use a second mouse on the second computer....which is still quicker than using a KVM switch in order to eliminate the second mouse and keyboard.

BTW....when done at the right moments, the sound effects are funny as hell.

[Force Flow]

Try recording the sounds, saving them as WAV and use HLSS (for HLSS, WAVs have to be 11025Hz and 16-bit).

http://www.hlss.us/

http://www.hlss.us/index.php?p=7

[David M]

Thanks Force...this seems like a better way of going about playing .wav files in the game that I had not realized existed....better than my hardware hack.

I got as far as.. SteamApps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\cfg. I got to the cfg file and opened it. Inside cfg, there is supposed to be a file called autoexec.cfg I cannot seem to find this file. Can you find it on your computer?

Here are the instructions I am reading from...
http://www.hlss.us/setuphlss/index.php?p=32

[Force Flow]

If the file isn't there, you can just go ahead and create it. It's just a text file.

[David M]

Create a new file called autoexec.cfg inside the cfg folder?

[Force Flow]

yep