Baldur's Gate | Help | Customizing | Sounds
Sounds

Twenty-three sounds which are uttered upon certain actions or conditions can be recorded for each character. These .WAV files should be 22 kHz, 16-bit mono sounds. The format for each sound name is XXXXXXXa.wav where the Xs can be replaced by a name of up to 7 characters maximum such as Farrell or Skip. The final letter of each sound's name indicates which action/condition it represents as listed in the table below.

One of the Selected sounds is played upon clicking on a character while Rare Selected sounds are heard when the same character is selected multiple times. The Daytime, Nighttime, Forest, City and Dungeon sounds are all random utterances that are played when it is that time of day or you are in one of those areas.

The sound set can be selected either in character creation or from the Customize button on the Character Record page. You can have multiple sound sets and chose the one you want the character to use from a list. A play button is available so you can cycle through each sound set to hear what they are.

There are two default sound sets for the main player character, one male and one female. If you do the recommended or custom installs, you will also get additional six custom sound sets that you can choose, three male and three female. If these still aren't quite right for your character, you can add your own custom sound sets too. There is no real size limit for the custom sounds and the game should play any reasonable sound without a performance hit (a 6 MB sound caused a 1-2 second delay).

File name Action/Condition
Xa.wav Battle Cry
Xb.wav Becoming Leader
Xc.wav Tired
Xd.wav Bored
Xe.wav Badly Wounded
Xf.wav Selected 1
Xg.wav Selected 2
Xh.wav Selected 3
Xi.wav Action Acknowledgement 1
Xj.wav Action Acknowledgement 2
Xk.wav Action Acknowledgement 3
Xl.wav Being Hit
Xm.wav Dying
Xn.wav In Forest
Xo.wav In City
Xp.wav In Dungeon
Xq.wav Daytime
Xr.wav Nighttime
Xs.wav Rare Selected 1
Xt.wav Rare Selected 2
Xu.wav Rare Selected 3
Xv.wav Rare Selected 4
Xw.wav Reaction to Party Member Death




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