>32 .mus in zdoom

[invictius]

Just opened up mock2.wad (always wondered how the engine recognised 40 individual .mus') and noticed there are lumps such as "D_KEYONE", D_HIPPOB" and such. Does anyone know how to assign a .mus to a certain level (or indeed, what levels correspond to the mus lump names) and if this would work in another port, such as jdoom or boom?

[DaniJ]

Each port has its own particular method.

Yes that can be done in jDoom.

[TheDarkArchon]

The MAPINFO lump does this:

http://www.zdoom.org/wiki/index.php?title=MAPINFO

[invictius]

DaniJ said:

Each port has its own particular method.

Yes that can be done in jDoom.

My skills go as far as working in NWT - how can this be done in jDoom?

EDIT: Someone once told me to search doomsday hq for technical info, no info in regard to this with a google search: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=site%3Awww%2Edoomsdayhq%2Ecom+mapinfo+music

[DaniJ]

Try actually looking next time: Music in Doomsday and DED reference (MapInfo is covered there).

[invictius]

DaniJ said:

Try actually looking next time: Music in Doomsday and DED reference (MapInfo is covered there).

One would think my google site search would have turned that up, anyway:

[Notice that
# this is the identifier of the Music definition, not the
# actual MUS lump found in a WAD file.]

There appears to be no way to tell jDoom that a certain .mus lump belongs to a certain level.

[DaniJ]

There appears to be no way to tell jDoom that a certain .mus lump belongs to a certain level.

That is set in a MapInfo definition.

[invictius]

DaniJ said:

That is set in a MapInfo definition.

Ok - and since you can't tell a mapinfo ded to use a mus lump (unless it was an external file) - how do you direct it to use a mus lump that isn't normally a doom2 lump, e.g mock2?

[DaniJ]

You create a new music defintion for the new lump and then give it the name of the new definition via MapInfo.

It's done like this so that people can replace any mus/midi lump with an external MP3,OGG etc or to create custom play lists.

[invictius]

DaniJ said:

You create a new music defintion for the new lump and then give it the name of the new definition via MapInfo.

It's done like this so that people can replace any mus/midi lump with an external MP3,OGG etc or to create custom play lists.

Make a new music ded:

Music {
ID = "e1m2"; Lump = "muslump";
}

Then in the mapinfo lump:

Music = "muslump";
# Identifier of the song to play during this map. Notice that
# this is the identifier of the Music definition, not the
# actual MUS lump found in a WAD file.

correct?

[DaniJ]

correct?

No. As it states in the text you quoted from the readme:

# Identifier of the song to play during this map. Notice that
# this is the identifier of the Music definition, not the
# actual MUS lump found in a WAD file.

So if you've decided to call your music defintion "e1m2" (why?), in your MapInfo definition it should read:

MapInfo {
Music = "e1m2"
}

Surely the MUS music lump isn't called "muslump"?

[invictius]

DaniJ said:

No. As it states in the text you quoted from the readme:

So if you've decided to call your music defintion "e1m2" (why?), in your MapInfo definition it should read:

MapInfo {
Music = "e1m2"
}

elm2 because that's what was in the ded example - thought it referred to the level -

Surely the MUS music lump isn't called "muslump"?

Just used that name as an example - I screwed up, but I'm trying to show you and the community that I'm putting in effort to solve problems instead of saying "plz help I cbf learning".