Playing the harmonica

[JPSK]

I was thinking it would be neat to add harmonica playing in the game.

You see all these harmonicas all around, would be nice if there was a function to use them to play harmonica soundtracks.

Maybe have it used as a weapon which could have a window pop up as you as you wield it and choose a song.

Possibly a 3rd person animation with your character playing the harmonica while traveling the roads :)

[sullyvanj93]

That'd be nifty. Or maybe instead of making it a weapon, if you have a harmonica in your inventory, it unlocks a new radio station with a few custom harmonica songs? Might be a lot easier to make that way.

[devinpatterson]

You see all these harmonicas all around, would be nice if there was a function to use them to play harmonica soundtracks.

I think that would be pretty do-able. You can attache a script to an object with playSound or playMusic and a couple of buttons to play tracks. I worked with those functions a bit in a mod.

 

Maybe have it used as a weapon which could have a window pop up as you as you wield it and choose a song.

Yes, you can convert it into a weapon (you can make just about any object a melee weapon) and you can have it play a selection much as above. Or even simpler, there are various sounds associated with each weapon form, and you could use a harmonica wav sample for those, so you get hamonica tunes when using it in battle.

 

Possibly a 3rd person animation with your character playing the harmonica while traveling the roads :smile:

I can't recall any animations of the harmonica (or harmonica AOs), but it's possible I just missed them. On the other hand you might be able to find a eating animation that "approximates" playing the harmonica (although probably not when walking).

 

Anyway the first two are things I could do for you if your interested, you don't mind waiting (have a lot of requests to do that are ahead of yours) and assuming I have the time and inclination. The third is probably something I wouldn't tackle, but there are some peeps in this forum that could pull it off for you.

 

Anyway, let me know what you think if your still interested in the topic.

[JPSK]

That would be amazing if you could. As for the timeframe, don't worry about it.

I pretty much have no idea how to begin with modding heh so I don't know how long it would usually take to do anyways.

 

here's where I got the idea to those who didn't know

 

Edited January 20, 2016 by JPSK

[Jokerine]

I think it would be acceptable animation-wise to maybe use the "standing and eating animation" that has that mirelurk cake animobject, and replace the animobject with a harmonica. It may look like you're eating it though, but if you remove the munching sounds I think it would be a good enough compromise :yes:

[devinpatterson]

I think it would be acceptable animation-wise to maybe use the "standing and eating animation" that has that mirelurk cake animobject,

Nom, nom, nom, I'll check that one out, thanks Jokerine

[devinpatterson]

I was thinking it would be neat to add harmonica playing in the game.

JPSK can you track down some open license/public domain harmonica samples that you'd like to see used in the mod. Thanks.

[Jokerine]

If OP doesn't come back, hit me up Davin and I'll look for some. I have one here if you want to grab it, and I can find some more later :)

[JPSK]

heh i've been looking for it but it's a hard task.

public domain music that's also harmonica solos, i end up getting whole bands or really poor quality stuff or just the tabs for it.

 

*edit: and i suppose midi samples don't really work either.

Edited January 27, 2016 by JPSK

[devinpatterson]

If OP doesn't come back, hit me up Davin and I'll look for some. I have one here if you want to grab it, and I can find some more later :smile:

Thanks Jokerine, I also downloaded the mod to play. It's rare to find full fledged adventures, I'm looking forward to playing it.

 

*edit: and i suppose midi samples don't really work either.

Ideally wav, but we can convert between formats like wav, mp3, ogg etc. Midi however (IIRC) isn't actually audio data like the previous formats right? Isn't it' notes, pitch etc? I guess if it could be played in a midi synth and converted to a mp3 or something, then that's possible. To be honest, I know next to nothing about MIDI.