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New boarding music

LarryHookins

LarryHookins

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There's a boarding music scheme in the game but it's not activated. It's probably because when you first appear on the deck in boarding the music starts, then immediagely changes to the fight music. Some of the three music selections used are pretty good. If you want to activate it, look in AIAbordage.c near the bottom for the following code and add the line indicated:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->PauseAllSounds();
ResetSoundScheme();

SetSchemeForAbordage();   // LDH 06Nov06  <-- Add this line

// NK -->
ref pc = GetMainCharacter();<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->

Also, in the file sound.c, make the following change:

<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->//  SetMusic("music_abordaz");                <-- comment out this line
    SetMusic("music_abordage");  // LDH 06Nov06 fixed spelling   <-- add this line<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->


Someone might want to tweak these a bit to see if they can get the music to wait a moment for the fight music to start. Once a fight is finished on a deck, this music plays.

Hook
 
sounds like a good find <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

I love the idea of more music in the game - so what do you think the chances are of this being put into another part of the game? if it gets cut out due to the fight music....then maybe we could put it somewhere else?

i hope to introduce some of the music MOD files i put on the ftp into some new shops/buildings i hope to create one day, obviously i'll need to change the music format, but the base tunes are quite nice i think, atleast they are time scale appropriate for the period <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
see my ginormous (mostly)monlogue here for a few suggestions:

<a href="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8541" target="_blank">http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8541</a>

Thats just the beginning by the way - once build13 is out and we're all happy, then i can start to flesh out some of those ideas <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> post#10 is where the main new buildings stuff starts, before its mostly about sailing stuff.

Anyway i'm listening to those music files i put on the ftp - i really like them, not all are suitable, but there are some great tunes in there imho - certainly with the right feel for the time period <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />


@Hook, where would i find these new music traks in the game folder, and what are they called? i'd like to listen to them? hmmm..... is it 'music_abordage'? is that what they will be called?
 
thanks - i love .ogg files, my personal choice for music in games <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Do you know a free player that plays the PotC.ogg files? Could never run them with Mediaplayer or Realplayer <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" /> CCC
I believe Winamp plays Ogg.
 
Ah, thanks, will try that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
I use FooBar2000, its 100% free (open source), and plays just about anything

FYI: VLC (also open source) will play just about any video file, including realmedia (.rm) and quicktime (.mov) files

get those two and you will never need another media player again <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
I use Irfanview. It also displays pictures, movies, etc. Freeware.

I got it because some game I played saved screenshots in 16 bit format, which even MS Paint wouldn't handle correctly. But Irfanview did. Got all the plugins, and it turned out that it handled OGG files as well, so I went listening to all the music. That's how I found the abordage music.

Hook
 
today i got me an ogg plugin for windows media player 10.
it sucked, dont go there.

i only could play ogg files one by one, creating a playlist was a pain.
 
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