How to resolve problem with silent troops

In header_skins.py you can find possible events classes:

voice_die = 0
voice_hit = 1
voice_grunt = 2
voice_grunt_long = 3
voice_yell = 4
voice_warcry = 5
voice_victory = 6

In module_skins.py you can find declarations for events voices:

for mans:

[(voice_die,"snd_man_die"),(voice_hit,"snd_man_hit"),(voice_grunt,"snd_man_grunt"),(voice_grunt_long,"snd_man_grunt_long"),(voice_yell,"snd_man_yell"),(voice_warcry,"snd_man_warcry"),(voice_victory,"snd_man_victory")], #voice sounds

For womans:

[(voice_die,"snd_woman_die"),(voice_hit,"snd_woman_hit")], #voice sounds

And for undeads:

[], #voice sounds

As you can see, there is no voices declarations for undeads at all and only a few for womans.

If you want that some troops use mens sounds you can simply copy declarations. You can use it for undeads for example.

But for womans you can’t use mens voices. You must create new classes, for example:

[(voice_die,"snd_woman_die"),(voice_hit,"snd_woman_hit"),(voice_grunt,"snd_woman_grunt"),(voice_grunt_long,"snd_woman_grunt_long"),(voice_yell,"snd_woman_yell"),(voice_warcry,"snd_woman_warcry"),(voice_victory,"snd_woman_victory")], #voice sounds

To create them all at once is maybe better than leave this work for second time. There is no need to use them all. They can wait.

Next step is in module_sounds.py

For each class which you want to use, you must prepare such code line.

("woman_victory",sf_priority_5|sf_vol_10, ["woman_victory_3.ogg","woman_victory_4.ogg","woman_victory_5.ogg","woman_victory_8.ogg","woman_victory_15.ogg","woman_victory_49.ogg","woman_victory_52.ogg","woman_victory_54.ogg","woman_victory_57.ogg","woman_victory_71.ogg"]),

Where

"man_victory"
is name of the class

sf_vol_(number 1-10)
relative volume of each sound class

sf_priority_(number 1-10)
Sounds are limited by their number, and if you want that one sound plays in any case, you must give to it higher priority i.e. 10.

["man_victory_3.ogg","man_victory_4.ogg",…..
Here you will put names of sounds that will play randomly. You can use small .ogg or .mp3, rather then bigest .waw files.

Of course you must put such named files in your SOUND directory

and change in your module.ini file:

scan_module_sounds = 0 to scan_module_sounds = 1

At the end, you must compile your Python scripts.

In this case are important only sounds.txt and skins.txt file.

But of course, you can change sound.txt and skins.txt only and ignore thousands reasons why not to do this.