Thiefier Sounds (Tile, Wood, and Stone Sound Pack)

[Gin]

I’ve been tinkering with the player footsteps sounds for the 3 surfaces that I found to be the weakest in the base game. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get anything to sound right from just editing the existing sound files, so I hunted down for some free sounds to create a sound pack that tries to emulate the feel of Thief’s footsteps for tile, wood, and stone that people can use if they want to.

I understand why this kind of stuff is usually avoided because of copyright shenanigans and such, and that’s why I’m just posting this as a sound pack people can choose to use if they want to instead of expecting it to be put into the base game or anything like that.

 

 

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ysfamuwxd5cisws/Thiefier_Sounds.zip?dl=0

 

To install, use 7zip to open the “tdm_sound_sfx02.pk4” in your TDM install directory as an archive, and replace the folders in it with the ones in the link above.

I’m not sure how often I will come back to edit this. I’ve been working on this on and off to try to keep a neutral ear to it, but I’m also not a sound designer so I probably won’t be able to make it much better than this.

 

Credits:

Wood and Stone: Everyday Cinematic Sounds https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKhZFIZjpB7Vtf_XKOvBzrg

Tile: Music & Sounds Effect Library https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-iLJ2ifYw0mV8AaAa1fFA

[Hooded Lantern]

will try this. thank you for sharing.

[OrbWeaver]

Provided all of the sound files are either original or under a license compatible with the Creative Commons license used by the mod, there should be no copyright issues at all. It would only be a problem if the sounds were actually copied or extracted from another game, but it doesn't sound like this is what you did.

To me they all sound excellent and I would be quite happy to see them added as the default sounds, although that's not my decision to make. The fact that you have achieved consistency between run/walk and jump is a major improvement on what we currently have, where the jump sound bears no resemblance to anything else.

If they do ever get integrated, I hope you will be able to provide uncompressed original WAVs as well — the fact that many of our sounds only exist as compressed OGGs (even in the source repository) is a significant shortcoming which makes editing risky (it will introduce generation loss artifacts).

[Gin]

Well alright then. Here's the source files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ud744tya2bf7be3/Thiefier Sounds Source.zip?dl=0

If you've using using this, you might have noticed wood sounds a bit quiet, that's because TDM doesn't increase the wood's footstep volume when running. I wonder if it's a leftover from transitioning from using multiple sounds for each movement speed, because wood was also using those. Tile doesn't increase volume either, but it doesn't use those old sound files though.