Soundtracks.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 15 Nov 2005, 18:24

Each "Song" Will Have Values:

Strength: Wimpy>Accelerating>Sweeping (aka, twinkle twinkle>ska>Oh Fortuna)

Strength will be decided by the total numbe of units in the game, on all sides... sinifying the escalation of conflict, as enemies are routed it is likely that the "weaker" music will come back.

pwnage: Only a few units left, loseing badly, neutral, gaining the upper hand, almost won, hunting for remanents

Basically if you are losing, the music will be like danger/sad/hopeless music... as you start winning, the music will be all "I'm winning/conquring"ish

Phase: Building, Attacking, Defending, Stalemate

Calculated based on the average activity of all your units, for example, a slow build song at the start... industrial trance when hyper spamming... on the road rock and roll when a huge group of units are moving together... nice thrashing punk when you are attacking...

might need other calculations, but the advantage of the sytem is that people could just take their whole music collection and classify it with these 3 variables and the game would pick them at random and crossfade into them when the tide of battle shifts...

yeah... and this is why we will all have to wait a long time for anyone to do music "right" for this thing... also, when you go into "powerpoint" mode when you have 500 brawlers fighting eachother... the mp3 decompression isn't going to be very pretty sounding... hence why the orriginal used CDAudio... only hurt the gameplay when it switched songs...

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 15 Nov 2005, 18:32

O,o less of the ska. more of the emo. and the rock. and the trance. if u r losing it should play R&B/Rap/HipHop to encourage u to do better

[K.B.] Napalm Cobra · Post by **[K.B.] Napalm Cobra** » 15 Nov 2005, 22:56

The only genre of music you can really have in RTS's is classical. FPS you can use rock/metal, remember the doom1 music? That kicked ass, but could you imagine it in spring? It just wouldn't work.

And HipHop? I thought you want to encourage them not cause them to capitulate.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 16 Nov 2005, 00:03

that's the great part of the idea... I like trance, rock and ska... you like classical, he likes emo... so you just set up your playlist to match what you think fits...

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 16 Nov 2005, 00:46

yup. Even though classical is better, it's good to have this thing open-ended.

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 16 Nov 2005, 17:37

ooh cool i get it. but i've already agreed to several vsns of this idea without shit happening so i don't know why i'm agreeing...

Michilus_nimbus · Post by **Michilus_nimbus** » 16 Nov 2005, 18:06

Min3mat wrote:O,o less of the ska. more of the emo. and the rock. and the trance. if u r losing it should play R&B/Rap/HipHop to encourage u to do better

Sure, and since where at it, why not put in some polka and/or opera?

diggz2k · Post by **diggz2k** » 16 Nov 2005, 20:21

Someone just write the stupid code and let everyone put there own music in different folders i.e. the Building Music folder or Attack Music folder.
If we argue over what music we like it'll never get done, so get it done and we can decide for ourselves.

Tired · Post by **Tired** » 16 Nov 2005, 20:29

Gnome wrote:Ooooh, you huwt my wittle feewings. Waaaaaaaaah!

Blather outranks maturity, eh? Well, I'm willing to play this one out. *See again note on keeping the topic you whine about alive yourself. p.s. No reason for hurt feelings if English isn't your first language - I'll dumb it down for you. ~~

Sinbad grasped the topic, it seems, and the simple question was one of feasibility. The short answer seems to be yes, it's possible, and yes, most of us think it's a good idea, but no, none of us are up to implementing it - gotcha. No need for hurt feelings - beyond a little html and a few games for the TI-82, I have no programming experience myself.

Happy gaming~

Tired · Post by **Tired** » 16 Nov 2005, 20:42

Oh, and Sinbad, if you think that referencing mp3s would create performance issues, by all means have it reference CD audio tracks instead, or allow the option. Most of us can handle burning our own CDs, and some of us even have our original TA discs.

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 16 Nov 2005, 23:28

Tired wrote:
Gnome wrote:Ooooh, you huwt my wittle feewings. Waaaaaaaaah!
Blather outranks maturity, eh? Well, I'm willing to play this one out. *See again note on keeping the topic you whine about alive yourself. p.s. No reason for hurt feelings if English isn't your first language - I'll dumb it down for you. ~~

how u no i kno spak inglysh goud?????????? yes plz dum ti dwn 4 meh?~! lol asl? :D :D :S :) :! :@

Tired · Post by **Tired** » 16 Nov 2005, 23:54

Overblowing the defect is a point for the prosecution, not for the defense. ~~

Oh, and ok - me speeky eesy 4 u gnom. =)

Neuralize · Post by **Neuralize** » 17 Nov 2005, 07:25

Mm. Egos.

We could have a winamp plugin too? :D

Doomweaver · Post by **Doomweaver** » 17 Nov 2005, 12:52

I got an idea, how about when you are losing it plays rap because rap is crap so you'll immediately know that you are crap.

Lol, just kidding, there is nothing wrong with wrap. Ignore this post.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 17 Nov 2005, 13:06

Tired, Gnome flames. It's what he does. He's flaming gnome!

Kixxe · Post by **Kixxe** » 17 Nov 2005, 14:00

SwiftSpear wrote:Tired, Gnome flames. It's what he does. He's flaming gnome!

Burnt lawn gnome? Sounds tasty.

Anyway, hope this is priotised...

Tired · Post by **Tired** » 17 Nov 2005, 22:05

No hurt feelings here - feelings are for women and Arm players. Anyway, the little dink's keeping the topic alive. =P

Along those lines, I'm gonna start reading another book instead of checking in here while waiting for a game to start. First comes message boards, then blogging, then wearing dresses, then the other thing, then....

Have fun all. ~~/

[Crusader] · Post by **[Crusader]** » 27 Dec 2005, 14:38

i would LOVE to see music support in one of the next releases :)
different musictitles for different battle situations would be cool too, but for me 2 different music types for battle and for building (as in ta) would be largely sufficient, as i want to hear the OTA music :)

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 28 Dec 2005, 07:41

Does it count as a Monthly Topic Rotation if it's necromancy of an old topic rotation post?

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 28 Dec 2005, 07:51

THis is a MTR, but the thread was started ages ago, so its to late to call it.

Spring RTS Engine

Soundtracks.

Is background music an important issue?