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Ingame Music.

2002-01-29, 4:35 PM #1

Darth Hal

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I want to have ingame music in my mod and I was told in the chat room to go here and get a cog. Thanks in advance.

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2002-01-29, 5:14 PM #2

CMasterTalon

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Well, is this for a mod or a level? Cause it if it's for a level, here's a cog, and it should work.

Code:

# Jedi Knight Cog Script
#
# music.cog
#
# Plays music on the user's computer localy.

symbols

thing		player			

sound	musicSound=music.wav	local
int     channel=-1		local

message	startup
message newplayer
message killed

end

# ========================================================================================

code 

startup:

   player = GetLocalPlayerThing();
   channel = PlaySoundlocal(musicSound, 1.0, 0, 0x181);

       Return;
#=======================================================================================
newplayer:

channel = PlaySoundlocal(musicSound, 1.0, 0, 0x181);

       Return;
#=======================================================================================
killed:

if(channel != -1)
   {
      StopSound(channel, 0.1);
      channel = -1;
   }

   	 Return;

end

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2002-01-29, 5:29 PM #3

Darth Hal

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So do I specify what level the music is to be used in that cog? If so, what line of code will I need to edit?

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2002-01-29, 5:34 PM #4

GBK

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Theres a few problems I will point out with this cog:

You cannot change the sound without hacking the cog. (NEVER make a sound 'local'...)

The sound plays globally (As in non-positioned). It never stops, it never slows down, it just keeps playing in the background....

After awhile, a 30 second loop would get quite boring and annoying...

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2002-01-29, 5:44 PM #5

Darth Hal

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Posts: 63

So how does this cog work exactly? Is it part of a gob file? Could you point me to a tutorial that will help me because I can't seem to find one...

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2002-01-30, 8:37 AM #6

SaberMaster

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">You cannot change the sound without hacking the cog. (NEVER make a sound 'local'...)</font>

This cog is for a mod, so what's wrong with that?

The music should be left up to the level, and not a patch. But if you really want your mod to play music, here's a simple cog that does it:

Code:

# playmusic.cog
#
# Play custom music.
#
# [SM]
#======================================================================#
symbols

sound	music=yourSound.wav		local

message	startup

end
#======================================================================#
code
#----------------------------------------------------------------
startup:
	PlaySoundLocal(music, 1, 0, 0x1);

Return;
#----------------------------------------------------------------
end

Replace 'yourSound.wav' with the name of your .wav file. And to get this cog to run, you'll have to list it in a .jkl or the items.dat. Do you know how to do that?

[This message has been edited by SaberMaster (edited January 30, 2002).]

Author of the JK DataMaster, Parsec, Scribe, and the EditPlus Cog Files.

2002-01-30, 12:22 PM #7

Darth Hal

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Posts: 63

I guess, I just have to know which directory the file is in. Isn't there a tutorial that will explain the elementary use of cogs?

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2002-02-01, 4:28 AM #8

SaberMaster

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Posts: 1,420

No tutorial that I know of. Anyways, I'll explain:

Create a folder in your JK directory. Call it something like the name of your patch. Then create a shortcut to jk.exe. Right-click on the shortcut and click properties. On the target line, add path dirName. JK recognizes the path command and it will search the directory that the path command gives it for resources before it looks in the episode and resource dirs.

Now you have a patch folder. Create directories in this folder as they appear in the Res2 gob. To get your cog to run, create a folder called cog and a folder called jkl. Put your music cog in the cog directory. Open up the res2.gob and extract the static.jkl and put that in your jkl folder.

Now open up the static.jkl, and scroll to the bottom. Up the world cogscripts and world cogs limit by one and add your cog into the world cogs list. Like this:

Code:

########## COG scripts #########
Section: cogscripts
World scripts 51
end
################################


######### COG placement ########
Section: cogs
World cogs 51
#Num	Script          Symbol values

0: playmusic.cog

end
################################

Listing your cog there will let JK find the cog and run its system messages - startup in this case.

Now there's a tutorial. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

Good luck

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2002-02-01, 7:53 AM #9

Darth Hal

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Posts: 63

So then I put my music.wav in the same folder that the directory "cog" is in?

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2002-02-01, 10:23 AM #10

Tazz

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SM,

Shouldn't it be "Each cog better than the last"?

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2002-02-04, 6:14 AM #11

SaberMaster

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Posts: 1,420

Hal: Put your wav files in the sound folder. If you don't know what folder something is supposed to go into, open up the appropriate res gob in the resource folder with conman and see what directory the gob stores that file in. Then create that directory in your mod's folder.

Res1hi.gob (or Res1low.gob) stores the .wav files in a gob-folder called sound. So you create the sound folder in your mod's directory and JK will check there for .wav files.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Shouldn't it be "Each cog better than the last"?</font>

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