How to create custom sounds for Project Zomboid

Difficulty:Easy

Unpredictability:Low

How: With Audacity and technical magic.

When:When you want to.

Pros:No more sounds you don’t like.

Cons:May not be as good as the original.

Sounds are arguably one of the most important things in a game. However, what if you don’t like a sound? What about a sound from your favorite game? Or maybe create your own?

What do you need?

-Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

-Your sound from a video game (if you are creating your own ignore this.)

1.) Download and install Audacity.

2.)Open it up.

3.) Press the red button and as long as you have a microphone create the sound.

or

3.)Get your audio clip from your favorite video game.

4.)Drag the clip into the program audacity and you will see a blue wave.
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5.) Then go to the Project Zomboid folder. Need help?
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6.)Identify which sound you wish to replace in the “sound” folder. Make sure to take a copy of the original sound.

7.) Click File, export as Ogg Vorbis, navigate to the Project Zomboid “sound” folder name it the same as the sound you copied.
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8.) Save it to there and run the game hopefully it will work.