It takes some 'sweat equity' - you have to do a little work and exploration, some testing - but it's quite doable. And it worked.įeel free to pm me if you (or anyone else) has any questions. So I just took the ogg sound file I wanted to use instead, renamed it to ImDestructible, and dropped in /City of Heroes/data/sound/Ogg/Destructibles/. Recently I wanted to also replace the sound of the objects we sometimes have to destroy in missions to make them easier to find as well.Īfter quite a while exploring the pigg data files, I found a likely candidate also in the stage2a.pigg file under sound/Ogg/Destructibles called ImDestructible.ogg. You have to investigate each pigg file, note the ones with 'sound' headings, and explore those hiearchies to see if you can find something that might be what you are looking for. Now you may be thinking, how do I know which sound I want to replace? How do I know which pigg file it might be in? You know the folder that has cityofheroes.exe and score.exe in it, that also happens to have the piggs folder? Yeah, make a data folder in that folder, creating the rest of the hierarchy as need to duplicate the structure found inside the pigg file that has the sound you want to replace. ogg sound file (which you can with Audacity, a free sound editor app), name it 'Objective_loop.ogg, and place it in a folder you create called 'FrontEnd' inside another folder you create called 'Ogg', inside another folder you create called 'sound', all inside another folder you create called 'data' in the main City of Heroes Program Location.

So if you want to hear your own custom sound instead of the normal blinkie one, you find or create a new.

So for example, the blinkie sound happens to be a file called 'Objective_loop.ogg' If you look at the hierarchy inside the pigg file it is in (which happens to be stage2a.pigg) you can see it is in a data tree that goes sound/Ogg/FrontEnd.

Using the pigg viewer, you can find out what all the sound clips the game uses are called (the are. I have licked this I actually replaced the blinkie sound with something a lot more distinctive and loud to help me find (and not overlook) the blinkies in missions when I am near one.īasically you need a pigg explorer I use the one here:

Sound driver to play city of heroes