Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

FPSC Classic Models and Media / how do you add music to your game?

Author
Message
Linik
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 2nd May 2006
Location: at my computer
Posted: 7th Dec 2006 15:35
Link
how do you add music in game instead of listioning to that annoying wind background sound?

www.futurecast.co.nr
we know the true meaning of old style games!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
butyouman
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 7th May 2006
Location:
Posted: 7th Dec 2006 22:18
Link
Find a song and put a sound zone in the place where u ant the music to start then right click on the sound bank and it says pick your sound do you have to put the song in the place of the sound but it it is to long it will lagg the game.

Slipknot Rules
Back to top
Profile PM Email
JohannesM
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Nov 2005
Location: Espoo, Finland
Posted: 8th Dec 2006 13:43
Link
All sounds in the game also must be .wav format. IF you want the music to loop for the whole period of the game, go to: File > Build Game > Level Settings > Global Script > Music and browse to your song.

www.mortarstudios.tk and www.freewebs.com/supahsfpscstuff

btw i asked rich to change my name from Supah Gamer so dont mix!
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Nickydude
Retired Moderator
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 4th Nov 2006
Location: Look outside...
Posted: 8th Dec 2006 16:11
Link
Quote: "All sounds in the game also must be .wav format."


They can be in .ogg format too


Back to top
Profile PM
Silent Thunder
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2006
Location: The Ship
Posted: 9th Dec 2006 00:15
Link
Quote: "All sounds in the game also must be .wav format."

If it is music, using .wav is a big nono.

use .ogg like Nickydude said.

make sure that it is also in 8bit mono and 22,200 Khz.


Get my Mega Segment Pack for free, be one of the first 5 to post
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
spex_guy
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Dec 2006
Location: coming to a forum near you!!!
Posted: 9th Jan 2007 22:19
Link
Are you serious????!!!!!!!

I've always used .wav type and I have my Khz lvl at 44100.

Man, I wish I knew what "spex" meant.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
AlanC
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Sep 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: 9th Jan 2007 22:38
Link
I always use .wav sounds.

Back to top
Profile PM Website
Silent Thunder
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 6th Feb 2006
Location: The Ship
Posted: 9th Jan 2007 23:40
Link
guys, was there really any point in bumping this?

.wav sucks, .ogg is way better, .mp3 is even better than that (I wish that we could use that).


Get my Mega Segment Pack for free, be one of the first 5 to post
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Reality Forgotten
FPSC Reloaded TGC Backer
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 28th Dec 2005
Location: Wichita Falls TX
Posted: 10th Jan 2007 01:58 Edited at: 10th Jan 2007 01:59
Link
Quote: ".wav sucks, .ogg is way better, .mp3 is even better than that (I wish that we could use that)."


Explain why .wav's are bad and why .ogg is better. I think it all depends on the sound your looking for.

When I write a death metal or heavy metal songs I prefer the analog 1.8 inch reel to reel over the new digital recording method.
When I write classical spanish, classical, modern rock or gothic rock I prefer the digital aspect because it allows me to add extra tone, reverb, track delays and more focused flanges, phases and chorus effects.

I know that this is a bit different, but it's still one in the same. with .wav you can get a very grainy old record store sound. and perhaps with .ogg you can get a crisper feel. Compression is another thing to look at but it depends on the song. If it's looped then I would not worry about it to much.

Regards,
RF

Reality Forgotten Dev Forums
In my case, you know, I hate to advocate drugs or liquor, violence, insanity to anyone. But in my case it's worked.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
FredP
Retired Moderator
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Feb 2006
Location: Indiana
Posted: 10th Jan 2007 11:12
Link
Why can't you use mp3?
I haven't checked to see if an mp3 file would work but I don't see why it wouldn't.

http://www.wembley1967.com
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
s4real
VIP Member
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Jul 2006
Location:
Posted: 10th Jan 2007 11:32
Link
Just so people know:-
1: .wav is the original source format uncompressed and will be the biggest in size.

2: ogg is a compressed format that try's to keep the original wav shape after taken unheard noise away and is used mostly by games due to the results are pretty good.

3: Mp3 another compressed format that also try's to keep the oprignal wav shape, this format is not as good qaultiy as ogg but good for normal music use.

Best S4

Im a wizz at texturing toilets
Back to top
Profile PM Email
understudy 32
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Jan 2007
Location:
Posted: 12th Feb 2007 20:31
Link
actually the easiest way to put music in your game and save space if the music will be your level track of course is to use a small entity and set its fpi to repeat sound and set the sound as the song you want i found that out after fooling around with diffrent alternatives to the soundzone and exe which only lets you use one track for all levels use ogg to spare more memory and for faster game play also

guns lots of guns
Back to top
Profile PM Email
script question
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Feb 2007
Location:
Posted: 13th Feb 2007 23:36
Link
how do you change the music to .ogg?

wolf2424
Back to top
Profile PM
FredP
Retired Moderator
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Feb 2006
Location: Indiana
Posted: 14th Feb 2007 03:24
Link
Google Audactiy.

http://www.wembley1967.com
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
rolfy
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 23rd Jun 2006
Location:
Posted: 14th Feb 2007 03:58
Link
I have never used ogg format,with the use of eq you trim the bandwith,the human hearing range only picks up 20-20k cycles,this deteriorates as you get older,16 bit digital uses this range.When you compress with mp3 it shaves off some of the top and bottom end,by reducing the bandwidth it reduces the file size,it is near to impossible to get a true analogue sound,no matter what anyone tells you about digital processing,many software plug-ins claim to do this but really only boost the bottom end.In the same way that a 12" single uses a fatter groove to improve sound quality,the only way to get a near analogue sound with digital is to use 24 0r 32 bit recording.
Wav format is ten times the file size of mp3 I believe ogg is even smaller.
I have read on these forums that it is not legal to use mp3 for your games,I am not aware of why this should be,maybe someone could point me in the direction of any info on this,as it does not appear to be any problem for musicians to use.
Back to top
Profile PM
MonT
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Oct 2006
Location: In your house, waiting for nightime
Posted: 14th Feb 2007 04:10
Link
Quote: "I have read on these forums that it is not legal to use mp3 for your games"


I think thats due to the fact that some people are afraid of others using .mp3 files from famous music bands (slipknot, AC DC, System of a down, etc..) or other artists that wrote their own music in their own games which would cause copyright infringement

Thats just my opinion though

<a href="http://www.pyrogames.org"><img src="http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e67/lightmatter/pyrogames.png"</img></a>
Back to top
Profile PM Email
rolfy
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 23rd Jun 2006
Location:
Posted: 14th Feb 2007 04:24 Edited at: 14th Feb 2007 04:29
Link
I dont think thats the reason,if any,MonT.Whats to stop people converting mp3's to ogg,if someone uses a copyrighted piece of music it is recognisable whatever the format.I'm sure I read somewhere on the forums that it was to do with the mp3 player.I still haven't seen anything confirming this tho'.
I dont mean to be a pain keeping this thread going,but I would be interested in finding out why mp3 cant be used.I dont understand the 'player' aspect as anyone playing your game is using a legal player on their computer with all soundcards supporting the mp3 format
Back to top
Profile PM
ak470000
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th Feb 2006
Location: United States
Posted: 22nd Feb 2007 19:11
Link
I think mp3 technology needs to be licensed through Fraunhofer IIS before it can be used for a purpose such as this, because it is patented technology. So unless you buy a license, yes it would be illegal.
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/EN/bf/,amm/licensing/index.jsp

However, ogg is open-sourced (free), and is supposed to be an improvement over mp3 anyway. In fact, I think ogg was created as a response to the issues I just mentioned.
Back to top
Profile PM
rolfy
18
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 23rd Jun 2006
Location:
Posted: 22nd Feb 2007 19:27
Link
Thanks for the info ak470000,I have looked into it.
Quote: "No license fees are due if less than 5000 copies of a particular title are distributed."


http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/games.html
Back to top
Profile PM
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-10-01 08:17:10
Your offset time is: 2024-10-01 08:17:10