I'm having a terrible time trying to compile sound files with permutations.
It's so ridiculous it makes Bungie and Gearbox seem like magicians.
I do not understand why it won't compile.Tool can't "read" the files at all.

are all the permutations the same Hz and types? (mono 44hz stereo 22hz etc.)

Erm, no spiral. It's 44100 hz and 22050 hz, plus they can both be stereo and mono. Stereo 44100 hz is mainly used for main menu music but you can still use it for higher quality sounds.

Make sure that you save them as a wav in either 44100 hz or 22050 hz.

Yep,they're all 44100 hz.
Here's how my data folder is organized:
data\sh__\growl
I'm trying to compile a sound tag called growl,with 6 permutations.All of them are name like this:growl#
Edited by Dumb AI on Sep 5, 2012 at 09:23 PM

then make sure you type in "tool sounds sh__" NOT "tool sounds sh__\growl" since the sounds are inside the growl folder.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Sep 5, 2012 at 09:27 PM

That's what I did.No work.

what's the error that comes up?

Tool says:


09.05.12 18:43:11 tool pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
09.05.12 18:43:11 reference function: _write_to_error_file
09.05.12 18:43:11 reference address: 42ca20
09.05.12 18:43:11 Couldn't read map file './toolbeta.map'
09.05.12 18:43:11 Couldn't read file growl1
09.05.12 18:43:11 ### failed to import: couldn't read file.

Can you put an example?

it should be

tool sounds "sound\DUMBAISOUND\DUMBAISOUND" ogg 1

It says it couldn't read the file. That's happened to me before too, but I forgot how I fixed it. I remember reexporting it with audacity to another folder and made sure that no other program was using the file. It worked for me.