Thread: SOUNDTRACK: How does one Modify/Customize? Anyone?

Soooooo,
I'm trying to find a way to customize the in-game soundtrack to suit my taste. Not that the music isn't epic and all that, but the OST from the movies would be a great fit for me if I can some how customize the playlist in the game.

Does anyone know how to:
a. Insert new in-game music files (i.e. path/file type/etc.)
b. Modify the script to cue certain songs at given times (notice the current in game soundtrack is cohesive with what is happening at a given moment in the game.)

Maybe one of you programming genius' can write a nice plug-in to do this for us.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

-Phil

I don't know if it's possible, but if it is, all my in-combat music is getting replaced with loud angry guitars. I have a feeling though that if it could be done, it would've been already.

The in-game background music can't be modified. In addition, there is no API for Lua plugins to play sounds.

Originally Posted by PhiltheHorror

Soooooo,
I'm trying to find a way to customize the in-game soundtrack to suit my taste. Not that the music isn't epic and all that, but the OST from the movies would be a great fit for me if I can some how customize the playlist in the game.

Does anyone know how to:
a. Insert new in-game music files (i.e. path/file type/etc.)
b. Modify the script to cue certain songs at given times (notice the current in game soundtrack is cohesive with what is happening at a given moment in the game.)

Maybe one of you programming genius' can write a nice plug-in to do this for us.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

-Phil

I have successfully extracted all in-game sounds from the client_sounds.dat file (including all background effects, skill effects, landscape effects, and music). They are all Ogg-Vorbis sounds. They are uncompressed, except for the Ogg encapsulation. Unfortunately, unpacking is currently a one-way operation. The sound files do not appear to be indexed upon extraction, so they are given surrogate names as they come out. Without knowing how they are indexed, it is not currently possible to re-pack them.

Turbine uses a specific program to pack the files, and the game engine uses some as-yet-undiscovered method of "playing" each sound/song when triggered. This involves the use of some as-yet-undiscovered index. If I can ever find this index, I may be able to find a way to repack the file. Turbine probably frowns on hacking their game files and re-inserting them into the live game, so I probably won't put too much effort into this task. I extracted the sound files purely for the purpose of listening to the soundtrack outside the game (my wife finds some of the sounds to make a good lullaby), and due to copyright issues, Turbine probably frowns on that too.

So, the short answer is, it is not currently possible by anyone except the audio production team at Turbine.

WRT LUA: LUA currently doesn't have access to anything except an API that Turbine specifically built for LUA. I'm not even sure if LUA has access to the DirectX/DirectShow API. In other words, LUA lives inside a sandbox that is carefully designed to prevent it from making any "unintended" changes to gameplay.

Originally Posted by PerfectApproach

I have successfully extracted all in-game sounds from the client_sounds.dat file (including all background effects, skill effects, landscape effects, and music). They are all Ogg-Vorbis sounds. They are uncompressed, except for the Ogg encapsulation. Unfortunately, unpacking is currently a one-way operation. The sound files do not appear to be indexed upon extraction, so they are given surrogate names as they come out. Without knowing how they are indexed, it is not currently possible to re-pack them.

Turbine uses a specific program to pack the files, and the game engine uses some as-yet-undiscovered method of "playing" each sound/song when triggered. This involves the use of some as-yet-undiscovered index. If I can ever find this index, I may be able to find a way to repack the file. Turbine probably frowns on hacking their game files and re-inserting them into the live game, so I probably won't put too much effort into this task. I extracted the sound files purely for the purpose of listening to the soundtrack outside the game (my wife finds some of the sounds to make a good lullaby), and due to copyright issues, Turbine probably frowns on that too.

So, the short answer is, it is not currently possible by anyone except the audio production team at Turbine.

WRT LUA: LUA currently doesn't have access to anything except an API that Turbine specifically built for LUA. I'm not even sure if LUA has access to the DirectX/DirectShow API. In other words, LUA lives inside a sandbox that is carefully designed to prevent it from making any "unintended" changes to gameplay.

hi ,

you said you have the ogg files,
they can de used in minecraft,
looks like fun, lotro mmusic in minecraft.

martijn