How Do You Replace Ambient Music?

[KadoDragon]

For the longest time I've been wanting to replace the music in New Vegas. Initially I thought it would be under the music folder which would only be logical. But it seems that the only song that is used from there is the title music. Google searches have only led me to making radio stations which is not what I want at all. More digging and searching has pointed me to both a Sounds.bsa which doesn't seem to exist and a mus folder which doesn't seem to exist either referring to sounds/fx/mus. I've downloaded music mods and they all seem to replace files in the sounds/fx/mus directory but I don't have one. Hoe do I do this?

[TrickyVein]

Music, or songs that are licesened or in the public domain which play on the radio are located at 'data\sounds\songs\radionv'

 

Music which plays in-game is stored in subfolders inside of 'data\music'

 

What type of music did you have in mind that you wanted to replace? You'll have to be specific.

 

It turns out that if you're curious about replacing music which plays on the radio, all those tutorials on making radio stations are exactly what you want to read. If you want to change or replace the ambient music which plays based on location/situation, there's a bit more work involved but it all comes down to what you want to do.

 

Also, you may want/need to familiarize yourself with how data is packaged with the game in a .bsa.

[KadoDragon]

Ya... Shortly after writing this I continued to search for a solution. I found Fallout - Sounds.bsa. I had my suspicions and looked in there to find that my suspicions were correct. There is a mus folder in the bsa so I extracted all of it. I want to replace alot of things and know that I can do so by just placing that mus folder in Data/sounds/fx and then replacing the oggs in there. Mostly what I want to change is the battle music. In the mus folder there is battle intros and outros but no actual battle music. I have a suspicion that it plays the intros and outros from the mus folder and then plays the battle music from the music folder (which would be a really odd way to do it). I'm going to find a way to test this theory but if you could tell me whether I'm right or wrong it would be much faster.

 

P.S: No I do not want to change the radio music. At least not right now. There are tutorials everywhere for that and when the time comes I'll look at those.

[DaemonGrin]

Here ya go check this out, very helpful

 

http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Fallout_New_Vegas_Music

 

Enjoy!

Geoff

[KadoDragon]

Yes, I've looked at that already. It seems that is just for making your own ambient zones which is not exactly what I wanted. Thanks though. I want to replace music in the game, specifically battle music. Not make my own music zones. While searching through the mus folder I have found that it may be impossible to replace exploration music since it seems to be cobbled together with small instrument stings. (Interesting way of doing things) But let's just boil down my problem to more specifics. Right now my number one priority is to replace the battle music. How do I do that?

 

*EDIT*

 

I replaced the battle music. I was right. It gets intros and outros from the mus folder and then plays a battle song from the music folder. Simply replacing those songs with the a new song that has the same name will replace them. As I have stated before it seem impossible to replace the exploration music but I could be very wrong.

Edited July 15, 2013 by KadoDragon

[DaemonGrin]

You need to know what audio object to edit in the audio tab which means you need to know the battle songs you want to replace. All you gotta do once you have that down is redirect the audio object to the wav, mp3 or ogg of the new one. Or you can find the mp3, wav, ogg you want to replace with your own music and just rename yours to the same names of the vanilla files making sure to leave them in the correct directory path(s) in the data\sound\ Not hard at all. Really the hardest thing to do with sound is create intro and outro they are super short and need to blend nicely with the fade-in of the battle music.

 

Good Luck,
Geoff

[KadoDragon]

You need to know what audio object to edit in the audio tab which means you need to know the battle songs you want to replace. All you gotta do once you have that down is redirect the audio object to the wav, mp3 or ogg of the new one. Or you can find the mp3, wav, ogg you want to replace with your own music and just rename yours to the same names of the vanilla files making sure to leave them in the correct directory path(s) in the data\sound\ Not hard at all. Really the hardest thing to do with sound is create intro and outro they are super short and need to blend nicely with the fade-in of the battle music.

 

Good Luck,

Geoff

yup. To be honest, this is all purely cosmetic for my own benefit. I may utilize this knowledge some way in the future for something else. So as for intros and outros I'll probably just replace them with one milisecond silent tracks to just get rid of them.

[DaemonGrin]

Don't need them you can just go directly into the battle music.

[spellwis]

hey I wanna add music to the game music I've done that and put what i wanted into the music folder but I haven't heard anything play from what I added to the folder