Contributions to the official release and modding community

[wertandrew]

Hi,
I am new to this community and I want to contribute but I lack the skills
So, I though that I can share these 2 music syntheses I made , so I can be helpful too! I give you full rights to use it btw.

Also, since there is not similar section in the forum (from what I searched so far), anyone who is willing to contribute as well for helping the developpers can post his/her work here!

I hope you like it. Peace

EDIT:

I added "modding community" to ensure I cover as much as I can with this post.

I am also adding the .ogg files which replaces the in game music. To install put the .ogg file in /Overgrowth/Data/Music

Special thanks to CryptoSeven and the rest of the community for helping me with this.

EDIT 2:
I am also adding a replacement for the game's sad-mood music, again free to use by anyone.

EDIT 3:
Added another track replacing the "happy" music of game. Feel free to try

[BotheredMe]

I like it. I've been meaning to create some ambient and dynamic music to implement into OG, I just can't get audacity to record my guitar w/USB. You sparked my interest, might have to work on fixing that this weekend.

And welcome.

[wertandrew]

Thanks for the feedback! Hope you get your recording sorted out

[CryptoSeven]

Sounds good.

I think Overgrowth uses .ogg format for music. If you want to try it in game look in directory ../Data/Music. Edit file path in musictest.xml accordingly. Even easier - backup old sound file and replace with new sound file.

[wertandrew]

Wow thanks! I will have to make another version though because this has a gap in the middle but thanks for the tip. I will post it here later so anyone can use it as well. Is it possible to have more than one at the same time so that the game chooses randomly the music when battle occurs?

[Endoperez]

You shouldn't be aiming to to professional stuff. For various legal and moral reasons, accepting free help from people who are paying you is rarely done.

Are you alright with modders using this music? There are already several modders out there, and the number of mods and maps is just going to keep growing.

[wertandrew]

You are right on saying that, but this is different from me purchasing the Alpha, a different matter. It is up to the developper's choice to do anything he likes with it (including to reject the work of course), more like receiving aid. I do not aim to deviate or distrort the project in any case and I do not mind if the developper will give credit or not because I made this track for fun and open to everyone. Same to all the modders out there, this music is free and can be used anywhere with no credit whatsoever, although they should wait a little bit because I am testing the full-scale track now (I am going to upload in a while)..

[Hg341]

in level.as

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void UpdateMusic() {
    int player_id = GetPlayerCharacterID();
    if(player_id != -1 && ReadCharacter(player_id).GetIntVar("knocked_out") != _awake){
        PlaySong("sad");
        return;
    }
    int threats_remaining = ThreatsRemaining();
    if(threats_remaining == 0){
        PlaySong("ambient-happy");
        return;
    }
    if(player_id != -1 && ReadCharacter(player_id).QueryIntFunction("int CombatSong()") == 1){
        PlaySong("combat");
        return;
    }
    PlaySong("ambient-tense");
}

[wertandrew]

Thanks for showing the location. So the code tells the game which music to play but how can the game choose from two different combat tracks for example randomly so it doesn't play the same all the time?
Btw I made and tested the new music track. It loops correctly and plays when it should. To install put the attached file ( make a backup first) into Overgrowth/Data/Music.

Enjoy!

[Constance]

This is something I wanted a long time ago; To have multiple tracks of music. We have to do this.

[Hg341]

haven't tested it but this should work

int threats_remaining = ThreatsRemaining();
if(threats_remaining == 0){
int x = rand()%2;
if(x<=1){PlaySong("ambient-happy");}
if(x==2){PlaySong("combat");}
return;
}

[Anton]

Currently the music is hard coded (unless things have changed) so there is no way to pull from a pool of resources (although, there are other sound effects that use pools, so it shouldn't be "too" hard to make happen). When I released a music mod for Overgrowth, I provided multiple .xml files that you could drop in, so it would play which ever "set" of music you wanted. - This method also means that you don't have to replace the music, but can leave it named whatever you like (and you don't have to replace the original audio tracks, just the .xml file that references them.)

Your tracks have a nice feel to them though. If you are looking for any critiques, I think there is some eq changes you could make, especially on the "sad" music to make that flute part come through better. The pads are very full, and kinda dominate that whole sonic spectrum.

[wertandrew]

Yes you are right the flute is not heard so clearly. Thank you for this feedback. So how can I do what you said with the .xml files?

[Anton]

Yes you are right the flute is not heard so clearly. Thank you for this feedback. So how can I do what you said with the .xml files?

I would suggest you download my music mod that I linked in the previous post, as it might help you understand what to do. But basically you need to find the xml file that tells the game what to play. It should be the file Data/Music/musictest.xml

when you open that file, you can just change the song list by editing the song path. For example in my mod, I change:

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<combat path="Data/Music/OVERGROWTH_COMBAT5_demo.ogg"/>

into:

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<combat path="Data/Custom/Anton/Music/RD_Combat.ogg"/>

This will playback my song "RD_Combat.ogg" which is located at Data/Custom/Anton/Music/

[Constance]

But what if you use a third-party program to swap up the .xml's songs each time you launch up Overgrowth?