Home Audio Improvements

Description

As you accumulate a horde of cats, you may find the cacophony of cat sounds at your cat house to be MADDENING. Clearly, this is by design on some level, but I needed to tone it down for the sake of my own sanity. This mod seeks to make the Home Audio Environment more bearable.

There are four sub-mods here. You can use them independently, but only use one Radio Adjustment at most.

• []Quieter Cats: reduces the volume of idle cats walking, jumping, scratching, swatting, etc. around the house to 1/4 the normal.

  []This may sound excessive, but the default volume on these is LOUD. You can manually edit the mod file if you wish to fine-tune this.

  []Meows are unaffected. Use the in-game volume slider for House Meows to adjust these.

[]Radio Adjustment: use 1 of the 3 separate mods to adjust the radio.

• []No DJ Segments: removes the lengthy dj segments entirely

  []Rarer DJ Segments: makes the lengthy dj segments 3x as rare

  []Songs Only: radio will play songs only, removing all of the 'radio station'-style content

  For clarity, the "DJ Segments" are the lengthy features. Most of these are about 2 minutes long and feature Jimmy 'The Hammer' Valentine. I happen to find them unbearable. Other radio content (song intros, commercials, etc.) are unaffected unless you use the Songs Only variant.

  Installation

  This mod is packaged as 4 separate mods -- Quieter Cats and 3 separate Radio mods.

  Use whichever parts you want, but use at most 1 Radio mod. (You should end up with 2 mods Enabled at most)

  Use with Mewtator. If you're new to Mewtator:

  • []Mewtator is required.

    []Unzip the downloaded mod folder(s) and place them in Mewtator\mods.

    []Run Mewtator.exe. First-time setup may be required.

    []Add the mod(s) to the Enabled Mods list.

    []Launch the game through Mewtator to use mods.

  • That's it! Happy listening.

    Compatibility

    This mod uses gon.patch and gon.merge files to maintain as much compatibility as possible. It should be compatible with anything that doesn't modify the same fields, which are related to sfx volume in the House Scene and the radio playlist.