is it possible to execute something OUTSIDE of JK with cog? I've had this question in mind for a while because when I edit for UT, I can make my own music to go with the level. With JK I'm stuck with SW's soundtrack which we all heard a godzillion times... If some cog-god could make a simple .MID player or at least a cog that links to an external program which plays .MID or .XM or .IT.. Im sure the whole community would love to have custom music in their levels

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BladeSinger
Sith Domination (http://www.massassi.net/levels/files/1496.shtml)

Im fairly sure thats impossible. A great idea, but cog wont reference anything outside JK.

If it could, Im sure it wouldve been done before.


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Cog can't reference anything outside JK, but that doesn't mean you can't add your own music. There should be a tutorial around here somewhere showing you how.

btw I've come up with an idea to modify jkl files on the fly before launching JK itself.

Raynar


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...Sure, adding music is easy. As long as its a WAV file.

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Exactly.. Im trying to mind the filesize a bit The only stuff about music ever discussed on Massassi has been adding CD tracks to your levels which is what Im trying NOT to do. Or play a looping wav file at a whoppping 11khz.16b.st which annihilates high end sounds like a conc rifle on a mousebot.

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BladeSinger
Sith Domination (http://www.massassi.net/levels/files/1496.shtml)

It is possible... yet very difficult.

My solution to the problem of there not being MP3 support was to compile the mod zip with mp3s, and provide a launcher that searches for those mp3s and converts them to wavs.This way the user downloads a small zip, but JK can play them as wavs. I lost the launcher though, when I formatted last

Or you could just have a COG play a sound localy over and over. Just put it in the right format.

Yeah, but the problem with looping music in the background is, even at a low bitrate, it will still be a huge file, and that causes problems with slower systems...


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