How To Add In Your Own Music To M2TW

[MonkeyChief]

This may be a stupid question but with the main folder method - what is 'io.file first command' ? What is it and where do i find it? Sorry if its a dumb question!

[apple]

Hi I was going to help out a friend adding a song to his Third age Total war sub mod.
Thing is the TATW dev seems to have packed the songs instead of leaving them in the sound/music folder.
Do I have to extract the music files from the pack and then add them to Sound/music or is there a way of doing it without unpacking it.
Also I would be grateful if someone would be kind enough to direct me to an unpacker (if that is needed).

Thanks.

[Squid]

The RTW idk extractor I believe still works on M2TW files. You also shouldn't need to extract the sound files, but should just need to change the appropriate file(s) and place the new song in the location you say it will be found in.

[Aikanár]

Hi I was going to help out a friend adding a song to his Third age Total war sub mod.
Thing is the TATW dev seems to have packed the songs instead of leaving them in the sound/music folder.
Do I have to extract the music files from the pack and then add them to Sound/music or is there a way of doing it without unpacking it.
Also I would be grateful if someone would be kind enough to direct me to an unpacker (if that is needed).

Thanks.

Squid is right, the idx extractor of Vercingetorix works with M2K.
But for TA:TW you've to unpack the files.
Download the extractor and download the official sound text files for Medieval II not the Kingdom ones!
Extract all the sound files into your third_age\data folder without overriting anything!
Make a backup of your .idx and .dat files in your third_age\data\sounds folder.
Extract the .idx file you want to edit, f.e. music.idx.
It will be extracted to third_age\data\sounds\data\sounds\music.
Copy the music folder to your third_age\data\sounds\ folder, so that it looks like: third_age\data\sounds\music.
Edit your sound files as intended (do a backup first).
Place the *.mp3 files in the third_age\data\sounds\music folder.
Delete the music.idx, music.dat, events.idx and events.dat files in your third_age\data\sounds\ folder.
Start the game.
If you've done all the coding and the placing of the *.mp3 files right, that's about it.

[Hisahide Matsunaga]

i,ve tried implementing Mongol Invasion invasion music into a mod but it doesn't seem to playing for the specific faction.

[Ilsamir Lord]

Hi everyone,

This is an excellent tutorial, but I'm running into problems. I've made a music mod for TATW 2.1 and while the new music works flawlessly, there is now absolutely no speech in the game and a great deal of the other audio is also missing. On examination of the .dat using WordPad I noticed that it is substantially shorter and smaller after the game rebuilds it than it was originally.

I have only edited the descr_sounds_music.txt - I have touched no other file, except the music and events.idx/dat files, which I simply deleted according to the tutorial instructions.

Is there a way to use new music and retain the voices?

[Ishan]

@Ilsamir Lord
You need to put all the 39 sound files before u regenerate events.dat file.
Make sure u do that also to revert back reinstall TATW is the only option but save the descr_sounds_music.txt file before doing so.
Also TATW might be using various other pre-edited sound files of their own so make sure u them for events regeneration.
Good Luck!

[Ilsamir Lord]

Ishan - Thanks for the fast reply, but I'm not quite sure what you mean... Do you mean I need to unpack the other sound packs as well? If so, I think I will need something other than the IDX extractor, because that doesn't recognise events.idx or .dat as a sounds archive...

Could you give me a simple step by step break-down?

Sorry for being so dense!

[Ishan]

1. Download the def vanilla sounds files it's 39 in total.
2. Then check which snd files already exists in the TATW data folder.{optional}
3. Copy all the 39 files in the data folder of TATW and don't replace the files that already exist.
4. After that makes the changes or simply copy the descr_sounds_music.txt in which u have made the changes.
5. Delete the events.dat and events.idx files and start the game.
6. They will be regenerated and there u go.

[Ilsamir Lord]

Brilliant! Thank you so much! All working perfectly now!

[Ishan]

Glad to help bro.

[Frederich Barbarossa]

this didnt work. All I hear is the normal m2tw music

[Druvatar De Bodemloze]

p.m.me FB and I will walk you through it

[Capricornius]

IF THE SOUND EXTRACTION PROCESS GLITCHES (i.e. The .bat file appears to "sucessfully complete" but no data folder appears and it looks like nothing happened) take Music.dat and Music.idx, place them in a new folder (that you just made) along with the xidx.exe and extract_sounds.bat and run it again.

Your new data folder shall appear and from then on just place the Music folder in your mod/data/sounds folder.

For Vista users you will typically get the message XXXX-has stopped working and needs to close bla bla bla. So if you get this message just do the process above

[Ishan]

IF THE SOUND EXTRACTION PROCESS GLITCHES (i.e. The .bat file appears to "sucessfully complete" but no data folder appears and it looks like nothing happened) take Music.dat and Music.idx, place them in a new folder (that you just made) along with the xidx.exe and extract_sounds.bat and run it again.

Your new data folder shall appear and from then on just place the Music folder in your mod/data/sounds folder.

For Vista users you will typically get the message XXXX-has stopped working and needs to close bla bla bla. So if you get this message just do the process above

Yes it happens solely due to the reason of lack of admin rights and that pesky UAC feature in OS.

[Capricornius]

UAC is a mixed blessing

Anyways I'm a bit confused on the sound files step.

I downloaded the CA sound files

Then I extracted them to a new folder

Then I copied all 39 files to the Third_Age/data folder

I get the message "Do you: Want to overrite, dont move, or move and rename?"

I clicked move and rename

All 39 files are renamed with a (2) after each file name

Is that what is supposed to happen? Am I doing this right? :\

[Ishan]

UAC is a mixed blessing

Anyways I'm a bit confused on the sound files step.

I downloaded the CA sound files

Then I extracted them to a new folder

Then I copied all 39 files to the Third_Age/data folder

I get the message "Do you: Want to overrite, dont move, or move and rename?"

I clicked move and rename

All 39 files are renamed with a (2) after each file name

Is that what is supposed to happen? Am I doing this right? :\

Well have to say that made me chuckle a bit.

If u are getting a overwrite option that means that your mod(TATW..)already has those files so no need to overwrite them it will screwup the changes the mod team have done.
If u want to make changes then edit the sound files that already exists in the data folder of TATW.

Do u get it what i'm trying to say?

[Capricornius]

Well have to say that made me chuckle a bit.

If u are getting a overwrite option that means that your mod(TATW..)already has those files so no need to overwrite them it will screwup the changes the mod team have done.
If u want to make changes then edit the sound files that already exists in the data folder of TATW.

Do u get it what i'm trying to say?

Yes I understand now

Thanks

[Ishan]

Yes I understand now

Thanks

Good and have fun bro.

[Capricornius]

Is adding music save-game compatible?

Because my Rhun campaign is well-established