DJ's Beginner Tutorial To Modding: Adding Your Own Music and Sound Effects

[Dee Jay]

Cool, glad that I didn't make the tutorial wrong

[General George S. Patton]

When I try to change marching music the units don't play anything

[Dee Jay]

Could be for the same reason, what ever it was.

Do you know what you done to make it work?

[General George S. Patton]

I think I did something along the lines of rexectracting it into another mod then overiding the origional, I will try that.

[General George S. Patton]

It still doesn't work.

[Dee Jay]

When you say it doesn't work, does that mean that the troops play nothing, or that they just play vanilla?

[General George S. Patton]

Right now In one mod I have changed the marching music, the front end music, the marching animations (from napoleonic 3), and the musket sounds. The front end music works and so does the musket sounds, but the animations are vanilla, and the troops play nothing.

[Dee Jay]

Have you tried extracting the troops music and seeing if the music actually does play in the file?

[General George S. Patton]

Yes it works, when I extract it.

[Dee Jay]

This is everyone's last chance to request a tutorial, just post something that you want a tutorial for here and I will try make one.

Cheers DJ

[Steph]

Detail step by step info about adding selectable faction in the campaign, including necessary changes in the startpos (victory condition, FOW, etc).

[Eagle3207]

Dejay I was wondering if you could help me out with this. So far here is what I've done. I've take the EIC mod, and I wanted to add all the music from Master and Commander to it. I confused, because in this example you only extract that one song. Though I want to add 15 songs. Every time I attempt to create the new pack, it's just not what i want. I want to re-create thew whole music file.

[Eagle3207]

Ok, I figured out what I was doing wrong, yet now have another problem. I have everything set up, and it won't use my music just the games original music. Does my music have to be named something special? I mean like each song.

[Dee Jay]

Well, every sounds and music in the game has to have a set name, you can't put your own name in there. So just rename all your sounds to the same name as what the vanilla ones are called. Does that help?

[Eagle3207]

Yeah, what if I want to keep the vanilla ones? Can I just keep putting in the next number...1,2,3 ect. and is there a limit on how many songs?

[Dee Jay]

I don't think you can add more sounds and music, it's either keep the vanilla ones or replace them with a mod

There could be a DB table for it, but I dont think I have seen one

[Ishiro]

Dee Jay:

I though you could help me since you made this tutorial.

I'm on the process of making a musket and airgun (because vanilla's it's crap, sounds like a silenced pistol) firing sound mod, turned out to be very realistic.

Already finished muskets, now i'm doing light muskets, have no problem with those. Tried to work on the airgun sounds as well but the sounds have music in the background which its awful.

I'm using AudicityPortable 1.3.13. Any idea how can this be removed? I'm attaching the proyect file of one (aup extension). If you don't have Audicity give it a try and download it's really easy to install and it's not complex to use for basic editing, advanced it's a whole another ball game.

[Dee Jay]

I have got no idea how to edit sound files I have never even tried it.

[tom cuervo]

I would love if you release a tutorial on how can I change musician music, because I can't solve the problem that I have . The sounds that I have added play well, but only one unit per army can play my sounds, the other are STILL playing the vanilla boring drum roll. How can I fix that?
Tom

[Steph]

I doubt you'll get an answer after 9 years...