Mana Games

[Nicky Gi.]

Hello Manu,

I had a small discussion today with one of the XKT Patch modders, and it made me curious about the best audio format to use in Tennis Elbow 4.

For short sound effects such as footsteps, umpire voice lines, crowd applause, racket hit sounds, and out calls, which are typically between 1 and 5 seconds long, would you recommend using WAV or OGG? In your opinion, which format is better for these types of sounds?

I noticed that the vanilla game uses WAV files for these audio effects. Was that a deliberate choice you made because WAV is the better format, or would you recommend using OGG instead? Maybe that's what's causing the crowd applause to occasionally not play. Could it be that the engine doesn't handle OGG very well, or that this format causes issues specifically with these types of short sound effects?

Thanks in advance!

[manutoo]

Hello,

internally, Unity converts everything to OGG, so for me, it doesn't really matter. Usually, I use OGG now, so if you see some .wav files, they might have been created for TE2013, which didn't support .ogg files.

For Mods, you should use .ogg files so it takes less space in the Mods folder, especially on console, and it's faster to download the whole Mod.

[Nicky Gi.]

Thanks manu! I created a private mod for myself and I converted the audience audio to wav instead of ogg. I noticed a reduction in the frequency of muted crowd applause. It happens 80% less often. I will keep testing further because so far I only played 5 matches with it. Do you think it really helped or is it placebo or maybe a coincidence?

[manutoo]

Theoretically, it shouldn't change anything, but if it does, then it means it might have a Unity bug with loaded .ogg files...