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Title: Music finished
Post by: Farsight on February 15, 2002, 02:50:12 pm: ok USS ALexander all the music for homeworld and cataclysm are done. BUT all together its 270 mb in aif format so i shudder to think what it will be like in wav format. It could possibly 500mb big!
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 15, 2002, 03:01:52 pm: How many tracks?
Title: Music finished
Post by: Farsight on February 15, 2002, 03:15:14 pm: Well ive totaled 119 tracks
but i suppose we dont need all of them as some music is from the briefings. But then again...
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 15, 2002, 03:40:39 pm: Max of 10 ingame tracks.. (this doesnt count breifing/debreifing/mainhall music)
Check out the TBP music if youre wondering how they did it...
Title: Music finished
Post by: Black Sheep on February 15, 2002, 04:24:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
Max of 10 ingame tracks.. (this doesnt count breifing/debreifing/mainhall music)
Check out the TBP music if youre wondering how they did it...

That's not exactly true. You can also get 11 tracks...if you massively reduce the number of briefing musics.

As for the music. Convert them into 22 Khz, 16 bits mono or stereo and save them in ADPCM wav format.

As for including them into the tables...that's a bit complicated. Search for a post somewhere in older threads...there is one, that explains the numbers in the music.tbl. They define how long a song is played. It is not that hard, once you've understood how everything works...
Title: Music finished
Post by: Setekh on February 16, 2002, 12:53:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Farsight
Well ive totaled 119 tracks
but i suppose we dont need all of them as some music is from the briefings. But then again...

119! That's a lot!
Title: Music finished
Post by: Fineus on February 16, 2002, 02:33:23 am: Looks at winamp playlist length....

shakes his head...

walks off...
Title: Music finished
Post by: Farsight on February 16, 2002, 03:04:47 am: only 11 tracks hmm well we can just add the music to the music file making it longer but still the same file if you understand
e.g we have like a raider music and add another one at the end of it.
Title: Music finished
Post by: Black Sheep on February 16, 2002, 05:50:30 am: You should really focus on the best tracks there. 10 tracks are not few tracks. Mix 'em together. One in-flight track consists of an ambient song, jump songs and three battle songs, that are played in an order.

...search for a specific theme. Dramatic or thrilling songs, etc. And then apply them to the tbl.

As I said...don't include anything...focus on the best!
Title: Music finished
Post by: USS Alexander on February 16, 2002, 05:53:32 am: Whe don't need all of them, just pick the most famost one's and a few for the briefings and debriefings and , the tracks of the homeworld and cataclysm main menu.
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 16, 2002, 07:12:35 am: I just extracted all of them, I'll go through and make a list of what I think are the best ones for it are...
Title: Music finished
Post by: USS Alexander on February 16, 2002, 07:29:00 am: Ok whell if you guys have any problems with the sound or music table, you know who to contact.....:) or shall i set it up
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 16, 2002, 07:44:04 am: Ok, this is just from the music files that I extracted from HW.

Ambient Tracks:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (should definitely be used), 11, 12 (definite), 17, 21, 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38,

Battle Tracks:
13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 27, 46,

Dont use:
18, 19, 20, 22, 26, 29 (copyrighted, its the one by Yes), 30, 31, 36, 37, 39, 40, 47, 48

Some of the ambient ones can be used for breifings and mainhall.
The battle tracks can be broken up, there are some pauses between the fast paced parts.
You can still use parts of the last bunch for Jump music and victory music, its just that the rest of the track has noise in it (they were used during cutscenes)
Title: Music finished
Post by: Farsight on February 17, 2002, 03:34:24 am: i tend to like the battle tracks more but thats just me. Anyway when you have totally decided on what tracks you want e-mail me.
Title: Music finished
Post by: Fineus on February 17, 2002, 04:31:07 am: Thinking of HW music only (haven't heard Cataclysms if it's got new tracks...) a lot of them are the same... you can probably loose 10 odd tracks without missing anything...
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 17, 2002, 09:58:29 am: Cata is going to be a totally different thing..
Were doing Homeworld first.
Once thats done, we're going to do Cataclysm, with its own music, interface, etc (some of the ships/weapons will stay the same obviously).
Title: Music finished
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 17, 2002, 01:49:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thunder
Thinking of HW music only (haven't heard Cataclysms if it's got new tracks...) a lot of them are the same... you can probably loose 10 odd tracks without missing anything...

Grrr....(http://www.evilnet.net/~mechwar3d/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif)
I'll have you know there are a lot more than three tracks of music...Unless you're not talking about the CD but the game...not as familiar with how that music is divided up :o
Maybe I should "research" this further... :D
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Post by: ARC_Shrike on February 18, 2002, 01:30:04 am: 119 tracks ? where the HELL did you find all those ? HW contain like 20-30
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 18, 2002, 05:50:37 am: 48
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Post by: ARC_Shrike on February 18, 2002, 06:03:15 am: :) :jaw:
Title: Music finished
Post by: Farsight on February 18, 2002, 01:43:03 pm: 119 traks are for both games and after further study there are also those traks that play during the animations (the black and white ones) and also those ingame cutscenes as well.
Title: Music finished
Post by: Thorn on February 18, 2002, 01:48:24 pm: Yeah, ditch the cutscene oens, they have extra sounds. Theres usually one the same without the sounds...
Title: Music finished
Post by: USS Alexander on February 18, 2002, 02:57:15 pm: I think whe need the cutscene ones for the command briefings, i whas thinking of converting them to ani's for command briefings