Sound effects

I'm looking for some sound effects to fit in with my flatshaded map, things like beach sound effects including breaking waves, seagull chatter, and so on. Anybody know of any good sites where you can get royalty free sound effects? Preferrably in wav format so I can throw them straight into HL :smile:

Go to the beach with a tape recorder :biggrin:

www.flashkit.com

Nevermind the bleeps and boings for menu interfaces, but check out the nature sounds or something.

There were a couple of suitable ones at that actually Forceflow, ta. I also found another site with some ideal but very long mp3 sound effects.

Which leads me to the question, how long a sound effect can HL support? Come to think of it, what format exactly do sounds need to be. I know they need to be in wav files but what sample rate, and should they be mono or stereo? Any details would be appreciated. Come to think of it thats kinda an editing question...

/me awaits beats

I dont know the info ReNo, but my best guess would be to look at the original Half-Life music and sounds, that should give a fair indication. :smile:

Yeah kinda realised that after asking :smile: Thanks anyway, got it sorted now I believe.

lol happends to the best of us.

If you're looking for a good free audio-editor to add some effects or cut/paste-work: Audacity is the best, imho.

heh Thanks I could use that. I've got songs that have like 10 seconds at the end with no sound so I think I'll remove that. Makes it easier to DJ without having to make comments on every music file.

Jinx's Sound Pack <--- save/as on link, 5.86mb

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Jinx's Sound Pack v2.0
12/26/03

The sounds in this pack were assembled by me and formatted to work properly in Half-Life. This includes loop tags where appropriate. Feel free to use them for Half-Life maps, or for maps for other games, as long as you give appropriate credit in your text file.

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I think I'm the only person to actually make a pack of sounds formatted for Half-Life. Not all were 'made' by me, though I did some formatting (added loops etc.) on all of them. They all have a 'prefix' on their filename, if you look at the readme it will tell you where they came from and who else you need to credit.

I think these two wavs will be useful to you:
a1_seagull.wav
jxwaves.wav

There are some good fire, water, and wind sounds in there too. The default HL water sounds are particularly horrible and should be replaced whenever possible imo.

Wow what a great pack of sounds, thanks a lot for that mate! The two you suggested are ideal :smile:

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

Don't let the shoddy design of the webpage fool you - it's a wonderful resource for sounds. Of course you'll have to format them to Half-Life yourself, but that's relatively simple. :smile:

I've gotten 4-minute songs to play out of ambient_generics, but they were low quality WAV files...

wil5on said:
I've gotten 4-minute songs to play out of ambient_generics, but they were low quality WAV files...

best to cut it down to 45 seconds at most or the filesize gets ridiculous :sad: I get so pissed off when I download a map that's a huge zip just to find out some asshat has an entire song included, which accounts for 90% of the filesize, the other 10% being some piece of s**t map. But hey, it has KORN playing in the background so it must be cool?!?!

I'll take a look at that site Campaignjunkie, maybe there are some that would be useful for Action UT mappers in there bwahaha.

glad it was helpful, Reno!

I'm looking for underwater sounds for xenophobia

Jinx said:
The default HL water sounds are particularly horrible and should be replaced whenever possible imo.

as for default hl waterfall sounds, rocketflame1.wav beats them all hands down. unless your waterfall is more like a leaky tap in a cave.

Wild Card said:
Go to the beach with a tape recorder :biggrin:

The humour never stops at the snarkpit :wink: