Modifying Music - Making the most of Wwise

[Clenvey]

Unfortunately it doesn't want to work . I want to add a new credit-song to test the software. This is what I did:
1. Converted the song into .wav
2. I dropped the song to music->front_end->credits with the object type "Music Segment" Now I have credits->song (Music Segment)->song (Music Track)
3. Then I deleted the Music Segment "silence" and imported the track with the context menu.
4. Then I added the Segment to the playlist "credits" via drag 'n' drop.
5. I generated the SoundBank and imported it into the game.
6. I don't have any music in the game now, not even in the credit-scene.

[Tyso3]

you set the song to stream right?

also you set the state path correctly?

[flexter]

I do not understand the pathing at all . It just makes absolutely no sense to me .

Could you go into a bit more detail?

I click battle/ postbattle/ campaign etc.. and I see path tabs

[flexter]

I do not understand the pathing at all . It just makes absolutely no sense to me .

Could you go into a bit more detail?

I click battle/ postbattle/ campaign etc.. and I see path tabs

Cancel that , got it working )

thanks for this guide much appreciated

[Clenvey]

you set the song to stream right?

also you set the state path correctly?

Sorry for the late response. Where can I set it to "stream"? The file song.wav is in the folder "originals". And the final Soundbank is 3mb big, but the original song-file 25?

EDIT: Should the track-type be "sequence step" or only the playlist (which is random continuous)?

EDIT2: The state path should be correct.

EDIT3: Everything should be correct, but no sound. Shall I upload it?

[Croue]

Without reading through the entire thread, I thought I'd point out that you can actually turn on streaming for all of your music at once by right-click: expand all > batch selecting all of your songs one by one with ctrl-clicks > right-click: multi-edit > open streaming drop down > check streaming. Multi-edit works for any similar tasks as well, like adjusting volume or whatnot.

[Croue]

I've been having an issue with loading screen music where if I don't check them as streamed they won't be generated later on for some reason. Can someone explain how to get Wwise to generate a .wem file for the loading music without having to check them as streamed?

[Tyso3]

Why would you not wish to stream them? As far as i know the streaming goes almost hand in hand with having the sound playing at the correct time.

[flexter]

Hey Tyso,

Having a few issues with the music triggering .

The track keeps changing depending on where my camera is . It will keep switching between tension and battle all the time.

Is there a way I can keep it at tension until the the first combat starts leave it at battle music until no combat is happening on the entire map?

thanks in advance

[Tyso3]

Hey Tyso,

Having a few issues with the music triggering .

The track keeps changing depending on where my camera is . It will keep switching between tension and battle all the time.

Is there a way I can keep it at tension until the the first combat starts leave it at battle music until no combat is happening on the entire map?

thanks in advance

Was this you i spoke to on steam>

[dayinempire]

Hi,Mackies, if want to modify a music mod for myself, how to do it(i want to just change so of it)?as i found many number files which are all wem format except Global_Music and Music_Data in bnk format.what should i do?

[Tyso3]

Firstly day, you talking about editing someones elses mod, which is a utter dick move, secondly you cant.

[dayinempire]

hi,i just want to make it for my own using and study how it works, i will not public it or steal it.Just i like most of that mod and i want to add some of mine to play in the game.Any ideas?

[Tyso3]

as i said its not possible, you have to make your own. The mods cannot be reverse engineered.

[Tyso3]

The first window that pops up when you click on a song in the editor (F10 if does not appear) on the right will have a checkbox for 'Stream'. Make sure this is ticked for every track. If you do not set to stream, you will never hear the song ingame.

Seqeunce step is only to be used if you want a set of GROUPS to be randomised. AKA you want Group 1 (Song1,song2,song3), Group 2 (song4,5,6) Group 3 (7,8,9) to play randomised.


In reguards to the song sizes, .WEM music files are INCREDIBLY well made. As far as i can tell they do not compress the song as the quality is the same (if not higher) but simply rewrite to a new track. My 500MB mods that you see on steam come from 4.5 - 5 GB of Wav files

[Clenvey]

The first window that pops up when you click on a song in the editor (F10 if does not appear) on the right will have a checkbox for 'Stream'. Make sure this is ticked for every track. If you do not set to stream, you will never hear the song ingame.

Seqeunce step is only to be used if you want a set of GROUPS to be randomised. AKA you want Group 1 (Song1,song2,song3), Group 2 (song4,5,6) Group 3 (7,8,9) to play randomised.


In reguards to the song sizes, .WEM music files are INCREDIBLY well made. As far as i can tell they do not compress the song as the quality is the same (if not higher) but simply rewrite to a new track. My 500MB mods that you see on steam come from 4.5 - 5 GB of Wav files

It works now! There wasn't any problem with Wwise, the game-music was turned off.

[Junaidi83 de Bodemloze]

nice tutorial, maybe i should forward to create my personal music mod , anyways this tutorial deserve +rep

[Tyso3]

LOL that would do it

[Dontfearme22]

When I open Wwise I have no tracks, I open up the tabs going down to where the tracks should be, but in each one the same track is listed, "silence":

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Clenvey]

When I open Wwise I have no tracks, I open up the tabs going down to where the tracks should be, but in each one the same track is listed, "silence":

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

That's because you have to add the tracks by yourself. The "silence"-tracks are only placeholder.