Adding Translated Voicelines to a mod

[glutzahn]

Hello,
like you may have seen in my introduction thread I'm working on mod translations.
My main project is MEHEM (I already started it with MrFob, but since he's gone, well I know he wanted to do a translation, so I want to finish it. He already allowed me to upload the translated tlk file, so I hope it is ok to upload the new files, so you still need to download the original mod, after I finished) and my side project is EGM and some of the addons for it (i will not publish any files for that I will send a message to the different authors and ask if they want include the translations in their mod, if im allowed to upload it myself or if they dont want any  translation, in this case I will only use it for myself)
Mehem is a kinda big project so I decided to start with something simpler at first.
So I thought Urz on Normandy would be good thing to start, since it only edits one conversation. I already found the german files I would need to edit. 
So I looked at the files the mod has, I have a BioD_Nor_405Engineering_LOC_INT.pcc, which is an almost exact copy of the file in DLC_CON_END, only the dialogue between Daniels and Donelly is edited, so I think I should use the original BioD_Nor_405Engineering_LOC_DEU.pcc as a base. 
Then there is the DLCC_MOD_URZ.afc as far as I understood afc files contain the audio files. 
So I guess I need to put the german Audiofiles of the new conversation in that file and then edit the pcc to use the files there instead of those in the original game, right?
I tried to find out how to do it, but I'm either stupid or blind because I wasn't able to find anything about it. 

I think after I learned how to translate Urz I should be able to continue with MEHEM.

I hope I was able to explain what I want to do and where my problem is ^^"

I would appreciate any help.

[deager]

I know that traditionally you want to edit the language files of the version you would want to change. If someone has ME3 installed and is using the German language version, then it would be ideal to get them the German language pcc files so that the game would play them.

But no matter how you do it, audio is not super easy. You need to convert the dialogue, get it into an afc file, and since you'd probably be using the German pcc files, setup those files to read from the new afc you're making.

MEHEM is kind of interesting though. It is true, I would think (I don't have the files now) that the first bits about Joker asking if Shepard is ok while Shep crawls to the console is in a LOC_INT file now and you'd want to redo all that in a German language file. But the movies have all the audio embedded in them. So while you don't need to edit a German pcc file, you would have to redo the entire audio for the movies; sound effects and spoken lines. That's just a boatload of work I wouldn't wish on anyone at this point.

[glutzahn]

I already extracted the needed files from the german pcc (some of them needed some editing)

For MEHEM I already found all voice lines for good ending, beam run, conversation on citadel and secret ending, I also already edited the voice lines that needed some editing. (for example there is a part where Joker screams commander, it's from the bad ending of ME2, but in german there is a bug where the Commander screams it's own name, so I had to find an alternative or an EDI line was cut together)

For the movies it's true, but I managed to do a pretty good editing (I think) of the good ending. I used a combination of the voice files, parts of the original video in vanilla and the soundtrack to make a good atempt without having some sudden silence. It's a lot of work and kinda trial and error but it works. You need to cut out the english voice line (which also gets rid of sound effects and music). Then if there is music, you need to find the right track from the sound track, syncronize it with the rest and if there are sound effects you need to find a sample of the sounds without voice and copy that. Or what I did was a bit of cheating sometimes I was able to take the part from the vanilla video, where sounds were already there

The only problem are the three custom voicelines of Cpt Fob and the two squadmates that rescue shepard.
My Idea was that I would take Cpt Fobs part as his "Number One" so the reference to the mod author is not lost, but a female voice is belivable. For the two squad mates, I need two german male speakers, because you clearly see that the two are male.

And I could not find the music of the secret ending till now.

I know it's not easy, but I want to learn

"You need to convert the dialogue, get it into an afc file, and since you'd probably be using the German pcc files, setup those files to read from the new afc you're making." thats the part I want to know how to do

[deager]

I PM'd you.