[LIST] TomeNET music suggestions

[tangar]

1) I'm using 3 soundtracks for my soundpack for Bree:

Bree = "cities/rogue.mp3" "cities/Ultima_online_create1.mp3" "cities/d2town.mp3"

But it plays one and the same musictrack again and again if i stay in town for long. Other tracks could be played only if I leave and then enter location again.

It would be cool to have all 3 songs played by turn (or randomly) when you staying in the same location.

2) add intro theme music. when you enter log/pass, choose/create a char. It would be fun to have music for this screen. if not all like such thing - may be add turn on/off this music to "options" screen?

3) remove limit of 3 soundtracks for the same location.

# One of the songs will be randomly picked, up to 3 songs may be specified.

3 soundtracks is not enough, especially for huge dungeons. I wanna use music from my favorite games and got loads of options for Bree. Its hard to choose only 3 for it. It would be fun to get rid if this limitations

[tangar]

*finally creating own music-pack*

Another suggestion - PLEASE add "Tavern" music situation to music.cfg !

I got great songs ready to add them to tavern

Also may be add "shop" situation - I found nice short tunes for shops also. It could be even different situation for different types of shop - to add sounds of metal and swords at weapon's shop, bubling at alchemy shop & etc

[tangar]

some mp3 files causing client crushes. I noticed that at files with very loud tracks.. Its just lethel crush - you can't login to the game back. The only possibility to change it - remove song from music.cfg.

It could be very dungerous - if music at Morgoth would crush your client... It would be sad.

Are there any possibility to test music? May be any PTR server?

[tokariew]

i for some time, provide tomenet server for windows: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=586
it could be little outdated in comparison to main server, but you can copy lua files from client, to server, and it should be nearly no difference. Of course dungeon, and flavours of item are generated.

You can safely use vorbis (ogg) and flac files. i not even sure if libs to decode mp3 are include for game (ok it have library)

[tangar]

Today I made my own soundpack.. It works, everything is fine.. But now I see more clearly some critical points in music system which could be improved.. I've already wrote about them in 1st message, but I wanna comment and make some additional points there.

1) The limit of maximum number of tracks per location - very dissapointing. We need to remove this limit. Its would make soundpack more interesting. Why? A lot of people said that they like music from my stream. I do not have any repeats there - its music from diablo 1-3 which shuffles in random order. So its very diverse and not boring. Its boring to listen the same music track again and again...

So I think its better to have possibility to assign any amount of soundtracks from the list (it would be easier to put only their numbers, like 1,6,9,24...).

So sound.cfg file could be have list of music in musicpack:
====
[Music list]
1 dungeons/bd1.mp3
2 cities/Linelle.mp3
3 dungeons/hive.mp3
....
43 cities/gondolin.mp3
====

Then there would be such structure:

=====
[Music]

generic = 1, 5, 8, 9, 23, 28 32, 41

town_generic = 6,7,22,32
....
=====

So when musicpack maker would make playlist he could assign as much soundtracks to any place as he want to. It would be very nice. For example, right now I want to have have the same wide music buffer (like 20 songs) for all dungeons with additional music themes to some of them. It would sound much better then 3 songs again and again.

2) Add shuffle (random music selection) when song ended in the same location. Now its playing the same melody again and again. Its very annoying and also its not possible to use short melodies cause of it.

So... Currently I'll rather prefer using my old random shuffle d1-3 playlist than musicpack which I made.. Its very sad - I spent several hours today to make it and its all for nothing But.. In other hand - I've understood this problems and found an interesting way how to present music tracks in music.cfg . Hope it would help.

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Tokariew, thanks, I'll check this server mp3 works fine

[tangar]

Another feature - add music or sound notification for feeling "The air in here feels very still".. One of the most important feelings. It could be sound like wind howled loud at first and become silent

[tangar]

Also DK music.. DK is the most popular event, would be nice to have speeedy music for it.

[tangar]

And finally.. It would be fun if this error...

--- Warning: Your music pack is outdated! ---

....would be updated with an information about where is this error could be found... Cause you need to understand where is this error to fix it

I've spend a lot of time to find such errors...

[tangar]

The most crucial thing now - its when you in dungeon and have to listen the same music track again and again. Its really boring. Even if you use > or < music do not change.. The only way to change music to different track - to recall off and come back

[tangar]

It's great to see so much new features in TomeNET music and sound customization!

Some more ideas:
1) add [ambient] flags (to audio.lua) for dungeons (to add there water drops, wind, strange sounds...). Sometime you get tired from music and it's great to listen just sounds of dungeon
2) add [ambient] flags for different shops and buildings. To make it more beautiful:
3) add option to =4 'to play quieter music in buildings'
4) add music flag for 'player house'
5) add flag for character creation (there is already "title", but it would be great to have separate char creation music)
6) make 'title' play music at screen where you choose server (so music would start right away when you open game)