Sick of constant thunder? Here's how to change it.

[frefaln]

I got sick of headache-inducing thunderclaps every 5-6 seconds so I found out how to change the files.

Step 1: Download S3DSpy 1.2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/eqemulator/files/OpenZone/S3DSpy%201.2/S3DSpy_1.2.zip/download). EverQuest bundles visual elements into .s3d files, sounds into .pfs files.

Step 2: Extract and run S3DSpy, point it to your EverQuest folder. You'll see a list of files on the left.

Step 3: Find snd2.pfs, thunder1.wav and thunder2.wav will be on the list on the right. You can either delete the files and leave it at that, or swap them out with softer thunder, duck quacks, whatever you want. Just make sure the filenames are the same.

Step 4: /quit and come back.

In the words of Depeche Mode, enjoy the silence.

[Teeroyoyort]

sweet

[PhelanKA]

I have replaced the thunder with sounds of Dubya's laugh/chuckle. It's beyond awesome.

[oldhead]

OMG i LOVE YOU....!!!....!!!!!

[oldhead]

http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/weather/

[frefaln]

Another sound that annoys me is the "wind tunnel" effect in certain zones. It's just too freakin' loud. You can tweak those in snd6.pfs, files are wind_lp2.wav, wind_lp3.wav, and wind_lp4.wav.

[Slayde]

I have replaced the thunder with sounds of Dubya's laugh/chuckle. It's beyond awesome.

I lol'd!

[Destruction]

Thank you for this post!

[Skeletonya]

Bump for epic post.

/sticky this!

[Overcast]

Bump for epic post.

/sticky this!

Likewise - for future use. Is the 'quest turn in' sound able to be toned down too? I guess I'll find out when I meddle around with this. :)

[maximum]

Great job!

Can I change the thunder to load screen music, instead? That would be ideal.

[frefaln]

Likewise - for future use. Is the 'quest turn in' sound able to be toned down too?

Absolutely. For the most part the sounds are intuitively named. I think that one is something like questend.wav or endquest.wav, and it's in one of the first few .pfs files. Seems like most of the basic sounds are in the first few (according to #) .pfs files, then it gets into mob-specific sounds and so forth.

I even turned down the "open bag" sound which is something like itmclth.wav. Opening one bag isn't too loud but if you have a hotkey mapped to open all bags it gets very loud.

[Phallax]

Another sound that annoys me is the "wind tunnel" effect in certain zones. It's just too freakin' loud. You can tweak those in snd6.pfs, files are wind_lp2.wav, wind_lp3.wav, and wind_lp4.wav.

Wind tunnels you can just turn down your ambients and those stop, at least they did for me, this thunder thing is genius tho and will save me from going completely crazy!

[odizzido]

This is the best thread on the forum.

Now if I can just find the super loud LS sound....

[guineapig]

Yeah the Lavastorm Nuclear Explosion needs to go away... or at least be toned down like 500%.

I don't know how many times I have been caught off guard by that sound but it's resulted in more than one spill.

[Jeice]

not classic if you dont have obnoxiously loud sounds for random things in EQ. For instance when I loot my large sewing kits from my corpse I expect a ear bleeding loudness that only EQ classic could provide.

[Yoite]

what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.

[azeth]

what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.
what's that noise? it's the game babe.

qft

well, right up until she decided to play :)

[Aldon]

This game has sound?

[Crebbles]

Ok.. so now does anyone know where to find the sound files for the Hill Giants footsteps?? I'd like to amplify them enough to wake my neighbors.. or possibly change it to an air raid siren..

[oldhead]

Another sound that annoys me is the "wind tunnel" effect in certain zones. It's just too freakin' loud. You can tweak those in snd6.pfs, files are wind_lp2.wav, wind_lp3.wav, and wind_lp4.wav.

wind_lp2.wav is the wind sound i hate...

I just wanted to add... I now love the in game rain without the BOOOM thunder.

[oldhead]

bump.. so i can find it easier next time

[guineapig]

I also forgot about this thread... bump

[TJHooker]

This download tried to instal infostealer.bancos

[toddfx]

As long as nobody changes their DING sound effect. I made that shit my text message alert.

[oldhead]

This download tried to instal infostealer.bancos


what scan picked that up...

ibmad as hell this gave me herpes.




edit...

Cant trust anyone these days =(


edit #2...
Looks like the results are a false positive. But use at your own risk ;p

http://www.aww-kittah-aww.com/up/public/180965/Capture.JPG

[Raavak]

The crashing boom in Lavastorm makes me jump out of my seat every time.

[steve]

Thanks for this!

I can't stand the tavern song being sung in PoK near the tradeskill merchants (near OMM on Live).

Delete tavern_lp.wav from snd11.pfs to get rid of it :)

[gprater]

The crashing boom in Lavastorm makes me jump out of my seat every time.


Me too. IM glad im not the only one.

[Henini]

As long as nobody changes their DING sound effect. I made that shit my text message alert.

hot digiddy, I got to do that!

[Scrooge]

Interesting little guide.

[TJHooker]

Norton 360 won't even install it on my comp as it says it is blocking infostealer.bancos

[salimoneus]

Norton 360 won't even install it on my comp as it says it is blocking infostealer.bancos

It's a false positive, go to http://www.viruschief.com/index.html or http://virusscan.jotti.org/en and see that only like 30% report a positive (the less accurate scanners). If it was a real virus most all would all be flagging it. Plus it's on SourceForge which is open source and considered one of the safer places to download from.

[Kumoga]

Does anyone know the name of the name of the files needed to delete to get rid of the rain sound entirely? Or potentially any way to disable weather? :)

[Bruno]

I just asked how to do this not long ago and nobody could answer it. It was driving me bonkers. Thank you so much.

[Gremel]

bump for awesome

[JenJen]

the constant shitty weather effects remind me of home (britain)

[tristantio]

I may have to try this, I enjoy the sound effects but they do not respect the UI toggle all the time (I try to turn off Environment sounds yet they stay on).

I like to have Sounds turned up so I can hear spells / combat etc., but I do not like hearing the constant environment sounds when alt tabbed out of the game.

[inyane]

finally, success!

for lavastorm:

snd11.pfs
thunder_rolling.wav

[Ledzepp02]

I keep sound at 5-10% and listen to music, watch tv, or joke around on vent. Although, customizing sound files for certain things in game could be very entertaining indeed.

[AreYouAngered MyBrother]

Sticky this in technical discussion please.

[Fenomstormguard]

Tried several mirrors to download this,

The last couple downloaded the exe for this program, but it wont extract to folder so I can start it....

It is in the zipped folder, but wont extract... I get all the other files to extract.

Anyone else?

Fenom-

[Flavor]

Use this to replace bow sounds .... w/ LASERS

[herolee]

thank you!

[maximum]

Now to destroy that scary Lavastorm sound!

[Revo]

Now this is a man who wanted something done and did it his own damn self.

[ilyaz]

Yeah the Lavastorm Nuclear Explosion needs to go away... or at least be toned down like 500%.

I don't know how many times I have been caught off guard by that sound but it's resulted in more than one spill.

How is that possible to turn something down 500%, 100% being no sound?

[boozehammer]

can't download from the linked place or the mirrors.

[mitic]

avast reports the file as a trojan...can i get a workin mirrow please

[Palemoon]

hmm, can't say this is a good thing. Hopefully the devs make it so you cannot disable atmospherics like they made it so you cannot disable hidehelm.

Thunderstorms are dangerous and drown out footsteps of mobs (or players on red..) aproaching behind you. You should be annoyed when a thunderstorm starts and disrupts your hearing and vision.

This also detracts from druid spells that effect weather, wake of karana.

[DoucLangur]

Ok.. so now does anyone know where to find the sound files for the Hill Giants footsteps?? I'd like to amplify them enough to wake my neighbors.. or possibly change it to an air raid siren..

And then go camp ancient cyclops in South Ro - that'd be fun :)

My first time getting the AC on EQlive, I was actually listening with speaker volume turned up, as a "cheap necro's track" :D And it was what alarmed me to the spawn indeed. Did it ever since until they nerfed SRo/Oasis

Cheers,

Slozem

[Kika Maslyaka]

actually if you ever tried with SoF+ client, the sound of your own footsteps is so loud, its impossible to play

[Prahadigm24]

Was anybody able to find out where the "coin loot" sound comes from? I'm talking about that "ching" sound, which appears everytime you loot a corpse with coin on it or when you pick up coin from your inventory. It's freakin loud on my system, need to remove or at least tune it down...

Any advice really appreciated!

[HawkMasterson1999]

I like the thunder. Its soothing

[Prahadigm24]

*bump*

Still looking for the component that is causing the "ka-ching" coin loot sound! :)

[Darwoth]

so is this file malicious or not?

[greatdane]

Bump. Getting malware alert on both computers, two different antivirus programs. I'd be more inclined to believe it's a false positive if the thing it blocks wasn't called fucking infostealer. How do I know this is safe?

[Slave]

Hire a druid.

[Bamzal Sherbet]

postong this here since ppl might be relyin on this shit still

damn i found a much better way to get rid of thunder in about 10 seconds of my own research, and without even downloading potental virus app (as per posts above)

just edit SoundAssets.txt (in EQ folder) and delete these 2 lines 143^thunder1.wav 144^thunder2.wav

[Bamzal Sherbet]

today imma remove wind tunnel sounds

removed these lines for good measures

158^wind_lp1.wav
159^rainloop.wav

[Bamzal Sherbet]

damn still gettin wind sounds. I'll have to try again

[jadefoot]

Anyone found a way to disable that looping, blowing snow winter sound effect? Dreadlands and Everfrost get this one bad.

[AenarieFenninRo]

Anyone found a way to disable that looping, blowing snow winter sound effect? Dreadlands and Everfrost get this one bad.

snd2.pfs

wind_lp2.wav

this appears to have removed it for me :)

[Razdeline]

Not classic. All sellouts.

[Pringles]

postong this here since ppl might be relyin on this shit still

damn i found a much better way to get rid of thunder in about 10 seconds of my own research, and without even downloading potental virus app (as per posts above)

just edit SoundAssets.txt (in EQ folder) and delete these 2 lines 143^thunder1.wav 144^thunder2.wav

Bump - this is amazing ^^^ should have done this years ago.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I created a new .wav for the thunder sound, Fran Dresher saying "Oh Mr. Sheffield." Immersion? Through the roof.

[Champion_Standing]

I created a new .wav for the thunder sound, Fran Dresher saying "Oh Mr. Sheffield." Immersion? Through the roof.

Oh...fuck yes.

[Roadblock]

Thankfully this mod exists. We wouldn't need it except the game decides to rain for 5 hours plus at a stretch so the noise can become tiresome. Was it really that way in classic?

[Telin]

I like the thunder sounds, it's just too frequent. There are no quiet rumbles it's always a large strike. It would be cool to update the sounds with better ambient loops. Maybe some birds in forests, owls at night, seagulls at ports etc.

[RiffDaemon]

Thankfully this mod exists. We wouldn't need it except the game decides to rain for 5 hours plus at a stretch so the noise can become tiresome. Was it really that way in classic?

Yep, for Kunark at least (when I first started playing).

[Spitty]

I like the thunder sounds, it's just too frequent. There are no quiet rumbles it's always a large strike. It would be cool to update the sounds with better ambient loops. Maybe some birds in forests, owls at night, seagulls at ports etc.

Seagulls and Owls weren't invented until at least 2004, so nope.

I didn't see a Seagull in person until at least 2007, but there's still some IRL screenshots floating around the web from 2004-2005 so we know they were put in sometime around then.

[Andervin]

Thankfully this mod exists. We wouldn't need it except the game decides to rain for 5 hours plus at a stretch so the noise can become tiresome. Was it really that way in classic?

Yeah, during the kunark era is was crazy. I think they did it on purpose to give druids something to do with their new weather control spell.

[Spitty]

True story - I was shocked as hell when I was in TT and it stopped raining.

You know that point where the fog animation used to roll out and for an instant the draw distance was bugged and you could see forever? I distinctly remember my Voodoo 3 shitting itself so hard at the same instant I was experiencing TT on a nice day for the first time. It was like a double climax.

[myriverse]

The weather is a known issue with EQEmu, in general.

Blame gnomes.

[maximum]

Bump for visibility.

[Mac Dretti]

download something called spy


sounds legit

[myriverse]

More legit than P99 is classic. S3DSpy is one of the oldest EQ mod programs to exist. Be more concerned about SourceForge.

I don't think anyone around here would steer someone into anything harmful.

[whitebandit]

I like the thunder sounds, it's just too frequent. There are no quiet rumbles it's always a large strike. It would be cool to update the sounds with better ambient loops. Maybe some birds in forests, owls at night, seagulls at ports etc.

says the guy who just made all my spells sound so much less immersive.. ;)