How to disable dog barking?

[Lunanon]

Is there any way to disable the guard dog barking sound? It's more often than not driving my own pet dog crazy.

In some games it's a simple matter of replacing a single sound file with an empty file with the same name but here all sounds are compressed in a single file.

Does anyone know a way to disable it or unpack / alter the big sounds.dat?

As of writing of this I'm running build 13j

[Valdar]

You can open the sounds.dat file with 7-Zip (and probably other archive apps as well). From there you can see the 3000+ sound clip files. There are several beginning with ‘dog'. I presume that one could replace them with .ogg files that contain either silence or your choice of sound, and rewrite the file (back up the old one first). I haven't tried it, but sounds reasonable unless the file CRC is being checked by PA.

[murgh]

A way better way is to just edit the sounds.txt file and replace the entries for dog sounds with

		SOUNDNAME          silence_1sec
		SOURCETYPE         0

so instead of a bark, you year a one second silence .ogg file :)

[Lunanon]

Originally posted by Valdar:

You can open the sounds.dat file with 7-Zip --snip-- unless the file CRC is being checked by PA.

Replacing both DogDetectNarcotics_1[a-f].ogg and DogDetectNarcotics_Distant_1[a-f].ogg with the one second silence seems to have resolved it.

Originally posted by murgh:

A way better way is to just edit the sounds.txt file and replace the entries for dog sounds with

		SOUNDNAME          silence_1sec
		SOURCETYPE         0

so instead of a bark, you year a one second silence .ogg file :)

That's what I thought at first as well but if you open the sounds.dat with notepad++ or similar results in garblegarble even though find (and replace) seems to find "dog" even if it doesn't seem so.

Where did you pull up the sounds.txt instead of sounds.dat?


<edit> ps. Thank you both for your answer!

[Wolf]

Sorry for necroposting but how do you "rewrite" the sounds.dat file to make it work? I just ended up killing all sound in the game lol
I did make a backup of sounds.dat though.