Hello, I'm new to modding and I'm having an issue I can't figure out by myself.
I made a new sword which works perfectly. I then added to the sword an enchant with a scripted magic that also works perfectly.

Now, what I want to do is play a custom sound when that script is applied (basically everytime I hit somebody).

I headed to the 'Music Track' menu, added a new one, selected 'Single track', but if I choose my .wav file i get 'Invalid directory'. I've tried placing the file everywhere, \Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data, \Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Sounds, the Skyrim folder in My Documents, the Skyrim's root folder, a custom folder inside Skyrim's Data folder ... nothing worked, still getting the 'Invalid Directory' error.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks to everyone that will help me, I'm so sad I can't manage to solve this issue.

try ...\\Steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\Data\Sounds\YourModDirectory

my mod file is in the folder ..\skyrim\Data, I've tried with placing the .wav file both inside \Data\Sounds\MyModName and \Data\Sounds\ ... getting the same error everytime

YourModDirectory.esp

Also what frequency are your wav files?

Any why use a 'music track' for a hit event?

Scrap whatever I sayd, just tried now and you have to put inside Sound/FX/ThenWhateverYouWant, without the FX folder before it won't work.

EDIT.
didn't see the post above this one.
I'll try it as soon as I can and report back. Thanks!


Frequency is 44100.

What do you mean by "YourModDirectory.esp"? I hope i'm making myself clear because this is my first mod and I don't want to waste your time by saying things in the wrong way, so i'll do a quick recap:
- Mod name is SOFA. What it does is cloning an ingame weapon to make a new one at which I've applied my custom properties (custom enchants, weight, etc)
- I've already tested it and it works fine. I've crafted it, improved it and used it against any kind of npc with no troubles.
- My mod file is called SOFA.esp and it's located in ..\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\data\
- When I run the CK I select it as the active file (with no other plugins except obviously the standard Skyrim.esm
- What I wont to do now is just to create a sound that I can play in a particular moment inside my enchant script. From this point I'm stuck because I can't import any wave file and I get the above error.


Woah, this could have been the question for the next topic, after having solved this 'invalid directory' issue
Which one is used for hit events?

Thanks a lot guys for your help and patience.

You are now promoted to my personal hero (at least for today, then we'll see).
Thanks! I was eager to test it and I connected to my home pc via remote desktop, opened the CK and successfully imported my .wav file!
So from now on it should be just a quick edit to my script, I'll test it as soon as I get home.

Thanks again so much!

Glad it helped, I'll look forward to try your mod.

I too am having this problem. I tried adding an FX folder to my sound folder and putting it in there; I keep getting the same error.

EDIT: Got it working by putting it in Data/Music instead of Data/Sound

Tried putting a sound file, which I'm going to use as a Dialog sound (got some ready-made wav files, and dont want to use my own sound for this character), but the Sound Descriptor is throwing me a "Can't open sound file" error when I try to play the sound through the CK.

Help? I got my sounds in "Data/Sound/FX/MRR/soundname.wav"

EDIT: Scratch this - the sound plays fine in the game itself.
They've got a lot of fixing with this darned tool...

Alas, you can't seem to be able to create a lip-sync this way.