Custom BackGround Music

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:37 pm

What Kind of Music should the file type be? Does moh play mp3. or wav?

I dont get any of the tutorials.

Anybody help me?

CorporalPunishment · Post by **CorporalPunishment** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:36 pm

Wav files are quite large so you will probably want to use MP3

You need to make a .mus file

In your main map script add this before "level waittill spawn"

exec global/ambient.scr YourMapName

Make a "YourMapName.mus" in the music folder.
Have a look in the music folder in you pak files for examples

Lastly a MP3 needs to be in a folder not in a Pak. So to distribute
your map you need to have the folder seperate.

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:54 pm

Okay, instead of finding a mp3, i found a Good Ambient one inside the AMbient folder. So, How do i take that file and turn it into a .mus

?

CorporalPunishment · Post by **CorporalPunishment** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:03 am

Have a look in the music folder (Pak0.pk3) and find a .mus file that uses the mp3 you want.

then copy it and rename it as youmapname.mus

go into your map script and add:

exec global/ambient.scr YourMapName
level waittill spawn

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:25 am

u win

ty

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:59 am

Ok, I will post here seeing as its on the same topic.

I am adapting the Berlin TOW script for my own nefarious purposes, to get the level ending music I have to refer to level.music = Berlin ( something like that, the ambient background to this Berlin is planes flying over, bombs, general war sounds, then it switches tracks when either team wins for the cinematic ending.

Soo I want the ambience to be obj_team2 ( V2 ), I can remove the berlin line in the script and play the V2 ambience but then I lose the music for the endings, I cant find what that level.music thing refers to, anyone know how to get the ambience I want and the level end music ?

Cheers.

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:36 pm

okay, i found the .mus file i want. I added the required .scr to the original. Now, when i put together the .pk3, where should the .mus file go?

The Jackal · Post by **The Jackal** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 5:07 pm

SPEARHEAD
Mainta/ Music/ my_map.mus

Allied Assault
Main/ my_map.pk3/ Music/ my_music.mus

Naturally you are calling this .MUS file from your map script.

i.e.

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exec global/ambient.scr my_map.mus

That's it! ROCK on.

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 5:37 pm

hum?

//PrisonCamp1
//ARCHITECTURE: BiG_HeaD
//SCRIPTING: BiG_HeaD

main:

//set scoreboard messages
setcvar "g_obj_Alliedtext1" "DIE"
setcvar "g_obj_Alliedtext2" ""
setcvar "g_obj_Alliedtext3" ""
setcvar "g_obj_Axistext1" ""
setcvar "g_obj_Axistext2" ""
setcvar "g_obj_Axistext3" ""

setcvar "g_scoreboardpic" "none"

exec global/ambient.scr prisoncamp1.mus

level waitTill prespawn

//***precache Dm stuff
exec global/DMprecache.scr

level.script=maps/dm/prisoncamp1.scr

level waittil spawn

end

I made the .pk3 with one folder with maps-dm-bsp-lin-min-scr
other folder: music-prisoncamp1.mus

??!?!

Post by **jv_map** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:37 pm

exec global/ambient.scr prisoncamp1.mus

should be

exec global/ambient.scr prisoncamp1

(only works when your .mus file is in the main/music folder!)

The Jackal · Post by **The Jackal** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:48 pm

First off you need to fix that script.

1.

level waitTill prespawn

Should be:

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level waittill prespawn

2.

level waittil spawn

Should be:

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level waittill spawn

3.

level.script=maps/dm/prisoncamp1.scr

Should be:

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level.script = maps/dm/prisoncamp1.scr

4.

exec global/ambient.scr prisoncamp1.mus

Should be:

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exec global/ambient.scr prisoncamp1

The rest seems OK.

Post by **jv_map** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:12 pm

All true, except the third point (which is a useless line anyway, you could just omit it all together

)

BiG_HeaD · Post by **BiG_HeaD** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:13 pm

works. thanx.

The Jackal · Post by **The Jackal** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:02 pm

Really. I read someplace that you have to set level script from within the map script file.

It puzzled me as to why. But who am I to complain?

Taken from Spearhead:

level.script = maps/dm/MP_Malta_DM.scr

I just came up with an answer that that satisfied my curiousity and stuck with it.

Basically you set level.script so that while ingame, you can use the editscript command and it knows what script file to open. Makes sense?

The Jackal · Post by **The Jackal** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 9:25 pm

BUZZZZ! I WAS WRONG!

I tried switching the level script to the drukk map script. Then went to game and tried EDITSCRIPT command and it opened the Malta script still.

Hmmm. Can this really be usless? I even saw it in the Basic Scripts.doc.