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Does anyone know how to bind the prerecorded messages in RvS to a specific key? The default system just takes too damn long to cycle through the options to get to the message you want.

Any ideas?

i've been thinking about looking into that, but i haven't tried. If anyone knows, it would b e greatly appreciated.

Well, I fiugred out a half asses way of doing prebinded chat messages.  Unfortunately they are without the voice (still trying to figure that one out).


1)Open this files in a text editor: Rainbow Six 3 - Raven Shield/Raven Shield Data/Save/Profiles/User.ini

2)In there you will see a bunch of key assignments.  To add a chat message just type 'TeamSay Message'

ex. To add 'Roger That' to the Number Pad 1 add this line:
NumPad1=TeamSay Roger That

This gives you team messages, to say to all subsitute 'Say' for 'TeamSay'.


This gives you text only chat messages.  If anyone finds out the way to bind the voice ones, they win the gold star.

I'll try to develop a list of key files that might help to figure this out:


Raven Shield / Raven Shield Data / System / R6RecMessages.int
Raven Shield / Raven Shield Data / Save / Profiles / User.ini
Raven Shield / Raven Shield Data / Sounds / int / Voices_PreRecorded.SB0

int's and ini's can be opened with textedit, but I will look for programs that open SB0's later.

Just a thought.

Perhaps this belongs in the modding section. I think people might be more helpful there.

I'm betting the SBO files are just their custom sound file format by looking at the files sizes, etc, just like RSB is red storms custom image format.  Probably not a whole lot of need to get into these, but it probably wouldn't be to hard.  AIF and WAV files are 99% the same, it's just the header information that's different.

I wrote aspyr asking for help...we'll see if we get any ;)

The file R6RecMessages.int in the System folder controls the voice messages.

At the risk of sounding like a total idiot, what the heck do I do with that files?

 :)

R6RecMessages.int lets you change the ingame messages. For example, one of them is GO,GO, GO Move it out. You can edit it with TextEdit or SimpleText.

Splinter means that you can hit say the '1' key on the keyboard to say something like 'Tango Spotted!'. How would you go about doing that?

Yeah, im looking to beable to hit one key and have one of the prerecorded voice messages trigger, as opposed to having to cycle through the different menus to reach them.

As far as on the PC side, i have yet to see anyone say how to do this, although there a few programs out there that configure it for you, so it is possible.  unfortunately those programs are only for PC (of course).

Hey Splint,

I might have the answer for you.


Buy a Belkin Nostromo Speedpad N50 like I did, or the new N52 (shown below).
The software that comes with this nifty gadget allows you to assign macro's to all the keys and buttons of the Speedpad. For the people not familiar with macro's: a macro can perform multiple actions in a row with the touch of only 1 button.
(http://images.belkin.com/F8GFPC100/FUL1_F8GFPC100.jpg)

Oh Dutch, I want to bear your children.  I have the n50, but I never thought of using the macros.  What a damn good idea!

wOOOOOOt!

thinking about it, i think most of the PC programs that bind the voice to a key are just running a macro.  You have to leave them active and running while RvS is running, so odds are they are just macro's running in the background.  Either way, the speed pad macro assignment works like a charm.  Thanks again Dutch!

I just wanted to say thanks Dutch--Thanks alot for posting about the N52.  I've seen this before but I never thought that I would ever come to buying one.  I just wanted to say--I bought one last night.  The pic sold me.   ;D

I think it will take alittle bit of time for me to get used to it.  But I can see it making a big difference in the future.  

It really takes time to get used to. But when it does, it really can improve your gaming skills. It's also very helpfull for people with only a 1 or 2-button mouse.

Holy shit! Ok for a moment i thought that thing was a mouse on acid which had had sex with a very attractive keyboard... i even thought "wow! thats a lefthanded baby as well!" Alas i see now for those of us that were graced with the use of our left hands over our right hands that this little gizmo will be no joy :(  

Just imagine if it was a mouse - all those keys at your fingertips - plus your keyboard... heh

I have the n52 as well...it rocks....for those who have not tried....It's all that and then some

FYI this is the official response from Aspyr:


Hi,

Thanks for choosing Raven Shield. We do not support any any  modding or
binding of any voive files. To access voice taunts you can press V in the
game and it gives you radio messages to choose from.
Thanks for the email and Have a Nice Day!!
Andrew Brazell
Aspyr Tech Support


Helpful.

lol 'helpfull' is not exactly the word i was thinking off ;)

Oh yeah, i was being very sarcastic there ;)

As for the Nostromo N50, I have bought one about a month ago and it is prety sweet.  Although it does take serious time to get used to, but well worth the 12 bucks I paid for it.

:MoD:Saberian

12? 12 bucks? oh god. So you use it and a mouse and thats it? it totally replaces your keyboard?

     It totally replaces your keyboard for gaming, yes. It's not intended to be a primary input device. I have an N50 myself, and it took me about three days to get used to it for GhR, and it made things much easier. ASAP, I'm going to replace my N50 with an N52, however. The N50 does not have enough buttons for tactical games.

     I would highly recommend the pads to any right-handers, and possibly even leftys. Sinister folks would lose use of the D-pad and throttle wheel on the N50, plus a thumb button or two on the N52. Whether that's enough to make it unattractive is your own call.

Actually Loth you can just plug the N52(or N50 if thats what u have) into the usb port on the side of your keyboard and have more then enough keys to use.  ;D

Anyways, back on topic...have we found a way to bind voice messages to certain keys with custom text?

One last bit for the "off the topic" section of this thread....

Does anyone have any Left handed input devices that they can recomend... I see the N52 and N50 are both carfully molded for right handers and to make it as uncomfortable as possible for the lefties...

on the topic, can this not be solved using Applescript?

     Voods, duh. : P What I meant by "totally replaces" was that you don't have to move your hand off of it while gaming.

so still no resolution to the problem other than using that handy little "right hand only" keyboard replacing gizmo and scripting the keys??

from what i've found out, there is not way to bind any of the voice messages to just one key.  in the pc world a few clans have come up with external programs that run macros (same as the "right hand only" keyboard replacing gizmo that scripts the keys).  i'm sure there is a way to do the same thing for the mac, maybe in apple script, although i know little about apple script.

So we either have to become extreamly quick with the given communication keys or rely on voice comm like Netfone ect? seems a pity - makes you appreciate it in GhR.

Well, you can bind regular chat messages (without the voice) to any key, just like it was in GhR. But if you want to bind the chat messages that have a voice soundfile with it, you'll have to do the macro thing, or hit the keys quickly.  Here's how you bind non-voice chat messages (from my previous post):