In-game Music

[6thEdition]

Is it possible to change the boring in-game music to something of your own?

[WritheNC]

Just turn it off and run winamp in the background I guess.

Probably will affect your performance though I think.

[Lonehunter]

In your Planetside folder, there is a Music folder. The files all have their individual names like, dessert_travel ,temperate_travel , tr_soi_combat , stuff like that. Get some of your music, and rename it to the PS music file names. Start up the launchpad, and AFTER it does a COMPLETE scan of your files and it says PLAY, then you copy YOUR files named after the PS files into the PS music folder and boo ya!

[Lartnev]

I turn off all music except the tracks I like :)

[Boomer]

wow.. discussion about Planetside Modding.

Backup your music folder first. Do what lonehunter said. Havent tried it yet.

Easier to run winamp in the BG though.

[ORANGE]

you used to be able to just copy the music over into your music folder after renaming it but shortly after release it started scanning for it and now you have to do what Lonehunter says, although running winamp in the background works well too, the only problem I get with that tho is the music will stutter from time to time if you have 512[m] of mem.

[Fragmatic]

you used to be able to just copy the music over into your music folder after renaming it but shortly after release it started scanning for it and now you have to do what Lonehunter says, although running winamp in the background works well too, the only problem I get with that tho is the music will stutter from time to time if you have 512k of mem.

You wouldn't even be able to run windows on 512k of memory :p

[ORANGE]

grr thanks for pointing that out

[GreyFlcn]

Oh hell yes

I actually designed a program that would swap out anything like
custom_tr_sanctuary.mp3

Main problem is that it's automated

New skin means the pixel colors change and I haven't been able to get onto the game to change the color coordinates.


Oh yeah the program also starts up Teamspeak and then bypasses the launchpad for you, then skips the ads

Also has a function with the scroll mouse
Scroll the mouse initally moves it a bit up and to the left
Click mouse then allows you to select your character


Essentially everything you need to start PlanetSide, done for you.

[GreyFlcn]

All that said

When I get some time I'll probably give it a spiffy installer
Then add Ventrillo and TSO support.

[Boomer]

:) /me likes.

what language did you use?

[Marsman]

Swapping out the .mp3 files after the lanchpad scan does allow you to change the music. Did you know you can also swap out the .bik files and change the video that plays on the TV in the base lounge? Check out this link (http://www.planetside-universe.com/files/index.php?file=165) :lol:

[Phaden]

And once and for all, exactly what is the correct player for said .bik files?? Im at school and want to watch this, but no idea what i used at home.

[Marsman]

Well the link I posted isn't a bik, it's nsv which plays with winamp.
If you don't have winamp there and do have IE, then this link (http://www.planetside-universe.com/files/watch.php?f=165&w=320&h=240) should allow you to watch it in a web page player.

[Phaden]

poops, its a no go. Oh well, thanks for trying :-)

[Lartnev]

You need to get winamp to watch that file, it's funny :D

[Marsman]

poops, its a no go. Oh well, thanks for trying :-)
Did you install the player? It should have offered you an option for a one time install of the activex player. Once installed, it should play if you have IE.

[Phaden]

No it just came up with red x in picture. Im at school so it is probably firewalled or something retarded. Its neat at school cause the ads on psu dont show up. hehe.

But ill just give ita whirl at home, no worries.

[GreyFlcn]

:) /me likes.

what language did you use?

Wish I was that advanced.
I just used a script compiler called "AutoHotKey"

Most likely I'll use NullSoft Software Install System for the installer.

Oh yeah, for the music swap I originally just wrote a BAT file for it.
But I should be able to move that over to AutoHotKey since I found out it can do that stuff.

[Shalashaska]

In your Planetside folder, there is a Music folder. The files all have their individual names like, dessert_travel ,temperate_travel , tr_soi_combat , stuff like that. Get some of your music, and rename it to the PS music file names. Start up the launchpad, and AFTER it does a COMPLETE scan of your files and it says PLAY, then you copy YOUR files named after the PS files into the PS music folder and boo ya!

I actually tried this and it does work, but once you log out and and then play again later, at the launchpad it downloads all the boring in-game tracks again :( is there any way you can keep it with your own music tracks?

[Marsman]

I actually tried this and it does work, but once you log out and and then play again later, at the launchpad it downloads all the boring in-game tracks again :( is there any way you can keep it with your own music tracks?Nope. It's always going to require extra steps at your end. What you could do is make a copy of the original PS music folder, and a copy of it after you replace the files with your music, and copy in the orginal one just before you launch the game so launchpad would see the correct files. Could be done using a batch file. Also could make a batch file to copy over the folder with the new music after launchpad finishes scan. Thats about as automated as you could make it.

[Shalashaska]

Yeah i'll give it a go, thanx :)