Question about game music.

[vecraude]

Ok now I went in after a few little observations and noticed that the game runs music under the name like heres an example:

loading \music\*insert song name here*.mp3

now would it be possable to do what I did with oblivion and change whatever song I want to the same name as the music file in the folder and play custom tracks?

As stated ive done this with oblivion and god knows I want to hear dragonforce-valley of the damned when running some sick dungeons so that I actually feel pumped to charge in swinging my GTA all over the place.

Please post back what your thoughts are cause I know a couple of other players that also find the music rather repetitive, though the main theme rocks cause it has the perfect medievil touch.

 

[The Man In Black]

You may find problems doing this under the HL engine. The map entities that play songs have inputs for the song length, so if you overwrite a song with one of yours, it could sound a bit off ingame. Other than that, it should work fine.

I personally would never do it. I love all the music in this game - especially Thornlands' exterior.

 

[vecraude]

Well I could just make backups of all the mp3 files in the music folder before I tried to tamper with it and post up the results, But yea I just wanted to know if it would be more complicated than using the same process in oblivion for the PC.

Thanks MiB. Ill try it.

 

[Durak]

Couldn't you just run a music player in the background and turn off the music in game?

 

[Thothie]

Maybe he wants his music themed by area. *shrug*

...Only thing is, like MiB says, it won't play in its entirety (loop time is defined by the map ent) and that you'll have to strip any ID3 tags from the music, or the engine won't recognize it.

 

[Sabre]

Maybe he wants his music themed by area. *shrug*

...Only thing is, like MiB says, it won't play in its entirety (loop time is defined by the map ent) and that you'll have to strip any ID3 tags from the music, or the engine won't recognize it.

Beg to differ on this one, I've used ID3'd files, and they played just fine.

 

[Thothie]

h4x!

It maybe ID3v2 it doesn't like, but they've caused problems, and stripping the tags off always resolved it... I think it doesn't like VBR mp3's, or mp3's sampled higher than 256kbs either though. (Also probably any not sampled at 44khz/Stereo)

 

[Sabre]

h4x!

It maybe ID3v2 it doesn't like, but they've caused problems, and stripping the tags off always resolved it... I think it doesn't like VBR mp3's, or mp3's sampled higher than 256kbs either though. (Also probably any not sampled at 44khz/Stereo)

I am assuming so, the files I used were probably 128 or 192 kbps.