Changing Sector Soundtracks

[Slushman]

Hey all, I recently tried swapping out the vanilla sector soundtracks for some different songs, but when I launch the game, all the sectors are silent. I followed some directions I saw on a thread here; changing the new song names to their appropriate five digit number names, but none of the new songs are playing. Any idea what I might've done wrong? Thanks in advance!

[MutantDwarf]

Dumb question, but are your new songs MP3 files? If they're .ogg or something they won't work.

[Slushman]

Yeah, I made sure they were mp3, that's why I'm confused.

[Schultski]

Um... another dumb question from Schultski...

What exactly have you done this? From what I am experiencing, there are three ways to do this,

[A] If you happen to change with just replacing items in the 'soundtrack' folder, everything should be self-explanatory, and I don't think that it will leave any bad feedback to both your new and loaded games.

If you happen to change via 'director' folder MODs, remove the first '0 [zero]' for it to work properly. I learned myself when trying to understand how the XRM has those new soundtrack added to it without editing main core files.

This is based heavily on XRM, and to change a particular sector soundtrack via 'director' file, use something like this:

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<find_sector name="AlphaCommand" x="7" y="16"/>
<alter_sector sector="AlphaCommand" music="8402"/>

However, A-F-A-I-K... when using the 'director' file, it is not possible to change the sector[s]'s soundtracks to an existing game, as it will be read 'ONCE'. A new game is explicitly needed for it to make additional changes.

[C] If you happen to change via 'universe' file, it is done via editing in X3-Editor program, but I'm at '50-50 : sure-unsure' state when trying to edit from the 'universe' file, which is located in 'map' folder...


Hope this helps,
Schultski Rheindland

[Guest]

However, A-F-A-I-K... when using the 'director' file, it is not possible to change the sector[s]'s soundtracks to an existing game, as it will be read 'ONCE'. A new game is explicitly needed for it to make additional changes.

... that´s not correct, U can change any background-music of any sector in any point of time in the game (by using MD-files)

[A] that would alter the background-music of all sectors with the specific sound ID
[C] that´s only possible if U start a new game afterwards ... in other words: any changes made in \maps\x3_universe won't have an effect if U already started a game

[Schultski]

... that´s not correct, U can change any background-music of any sector in any point of time in the game Wink (by using MD-files)

Of course...
Given the time that I forgot the MD-files and how those files worked in the first place. That's why I've never mentioned them, as I don't know how to use the correct ways to use MD-files...

[C] that´s only possible if U start a new game afterwards ... in other words: any changes made in \maps\x3_universe won't have an effect if U already started a game

So, changing musics other than using those 'MD-files', OR directly replaces the soundtracks, all require new game starts to even have the change, right?


Sincerely,
Schultski Rheindland

[Guest]

... there are so called "cue"-tags in the md-file, which contain <action> and <condition>, sometimes also <timing>

... ones the condition is checked successfully, the code in <action> will be executed immediately and all sub-cue will be activated
... in case there is also a timing-tag, the acions will be executed after a certain time elapsed, but the sub-cue will immediately be activated, that´s all
... all sub-cue are coded in the <cues>-tag after the <action>-tag

example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="director.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?>
<director name="test" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="director.xsd">

  <cues>

    <cue version="1" name="gfddddddddhjfgccdh">

      <timing>
        <time exact="15s"/>
      </timing>

      <action>
        <do_all>
          <find_sector name="this.reference_sector" x="1" y="3" exact="0"/>
          <do_if value="{sector.exists@this.reference_sector}" exact="1">
            <alter_sector sector="{player.sector}" music="{sector.music@this.reference_sector}"/>
            <incoming_message popup="1" text="... background-music of {sector.name@{player.sector}} changed ..."/>
          </do_if>
        </do_all>
      </action>
      
    </cue>
    
  </cues>
  
</director>

... this will change 15 seconds after reloading your game the background-music of the current player-sector to the Argon_Prime-background-music
// sub-cues and conditions are not needed here