susongplayer help needed
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:37 pm
can anyone help me with setting up susongplayer?
Its a music player from the mmlxmas pack that allows you to play
christmas music on your server.
Now the problem is ive read the readme several times but still i have
no clue how to use it on a server or even offline.
Ive tried the commands but none of them work and so and so.
Normally it only works on a map that doesnt have music on it so i first
tried it on a costom map without music no succes.
After that ive tried it on a map with music.... same result.
if anyone can help me with this its greatly appreciated.
here is the readme from it maybe its usefull.
btw sorry for creating so much topics lately ive been out for a
while and have alot of questions
Its a music player from the mmlxmas pack that allows you to play
christmas music on your server.
Now the problem is ive read the readme several times but still i have
no clue how to use it on a server or even offline.
Ive tried the commands but none of them work and so and so.
Normally it only works on a map that doesnt have music on it so i first
tried it on a costom map without music no succes.
After that ive tried it on a map with music.... same result.
if anyone can help me with this its greatly appreciated.
here is the readme from it maybe its usefull.
btw sorry for creating so much topics lately ive been out for a
while and have alot of questions
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-= SUSongPlayer =-
Title (Package): Simple Unreal Songplayer
Author: }TCP{Wolf aka Mia_The_Chaotic
Date: 4th of May 2002
30th of May 2002
== TABLE OF CONTENTS ==
I. Introduction - WHAT IS IT ?
II. Requirements, Installation
III. Setup (there ain't much to set up actually :)
IV. Commands (so to say...)
V. Creating CUSTOM UMX packages from IT/S3M/XM/MOD files
== * ==
I. Introduction
---------------
The Simple Unreal Songplayer (SUSongPlayer) is a server/client mod which plays
Unreal music on any map which does not have music already on its own.
By default, SUSongPlayer uses most Unreal Classic 225f standard umx song
files, which are statically loaded together with the mod. They can be used from
on the moment the player is installed (there is a complete preset for all major
suitable songs). Only setting up non-standard songs may be a bit tricky :)
II. Installation
----------------
Requirements:
Unreal Classic 225f or newer
This mod is NOT for Unreal Tournament or any other Unreal Engine game. The
mod works with Unreal Return To Napali, but I don't know if it has packages
of the 225f non-Napali version... if not, get them!
RAM
All used music must be loaded on startup - for the server they COULD be
loaded dynamically, but not so on the client :( so you need the additional
RAM for all UMX files you use.
I am not totally sure about the amount of RAM the basic setup requires when
it loads the standard UMX files, but it is far less than your gaming machine
needs as texture cache to run smoothly...
Copy all contents of the zip (this textfile excluded) into your Unreal\system
directory.
The mod alone requires you to add the following 2 lines in your "Unreal.ini"
within the section "[Engine.GameEngine]":
ServerPackages=SUSongPlayer
ServerActors=SUSongPlayer.SUSongPlayer
III. Setup
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There is a new menu in your advanced preferences. From a dedicated server,
right-click on the Unreal Icon in the icon area of your task-bar to get to the
advanced options.
On a listening server, hit tab and type "preferences" or hit escape, choose
options -> Advanced options (only for 225f).
Songs:
A song is normally a complete songfile which may include several tracks and
sections - just like on a complete CD you may have tracks and even within the
tracks you might have sections.
However, one song usually has only ONE track inside and only ONE section, so
that in most cases, the SONG is the complete file and is only ONE single piece
of music :)
In Unreal, songs are loaded by package+trackname out of a umx file, so the
complete class specifier would be: Music'package.track'
A section in Unreal is simply a byte value from 0 to 255. Most songs will be
just a single piece of music, so the complete specifier is reduced to this:
Music'song.song' section=0
However, I have left this explanation inside so that you understand why there
is a . (DOT) in the preset songs and what the section variable is good for.
Another side note: Not all standard Unreal Classic UMX files play well when
started directly and the started section is NOT 0... no idea why.
Settings:
---------
enabled: true/false - like all my mods, they can be enabled/disabled very
simple. The mod will do NOTHING if enabled=false. However, if you
already have all the songs installed as you had planned, they will
still be downloaded no matter what this setting is, because songs are
installed as means of "serverpackage" all on their own.
SongChances:
ChanceBackground / ChanceUnreal / ChanceTechno
All three settings are a value between 0 and 1 and indicate the
probability with which one out of the 3 types are chosen per map.
0=no chance 1=max chance, 0.5 would be 50% max chance. If there are
only songs in ONE list the chance for that list just has to be bigger
than zero but is otherwise irrelevant.
Z_AlwaysPlayThis: This overrides all "Chances" settings and forces the mod
to ALWAYS play the song indicated here. This is only meant if you
test a new song how it sounds in game and should NOT be used
otherwise.
Z_AlwaysSection: The section belonging to the song you force to play at all
times using the setting just above this one.
BackGroundSongs: The list of "Background Songs". Background songs are "Unreal
Themes" which are not so "action-like", so maybe not really so good
as "fighting song"...
UnrealSongs: True "Unreal" songs of average "action/loudness".
TechnoSongs: "Techno" and anything loud :)
each of the song lists can hold 64 songs (music files).
IV. "Commands"
--------------
SUSongPlayer does not have a real Command interface, but it has been tweaked
so administrators can do a few things while the server is running.
Some 0 / 1 behind commands are needed (standing for true/false). So now you
already guessed likely, these are just a few variables you do not see in the
advanced options menu, but you can actually set them :)
Please start ALL of the following lines with "admin set SUSongPlayer":
bsong Use one of these commands in game to immediately have
tsong a new song started, whereas b/t/u is for "Background /
usong Techno / Unreal" as the lists suggest. is 0-64
silent 1 Use this to silence SUSongPlayer completely. Players
already hearing music will stop hearing it, new players
will just see a strange message but wont hear music
either.
This does NOT work if the music is in the MAP!! You can
only stop songs which were started by SUSongPlayer!
blist 1 Will display the list of installed Background songs...
tlist 1 ... same for Techno songs...
ulist 1 ... same for Unreal songs...
Note: ALL players will see the lists, not just admins.
V. Creating your custom UMX files from MODs
-------------------------------------------
I am not sure from which mods you can import, but I would guess IT, XM, S3M and
MOD (protracker) are obvious choices to import from.
Start the Unreal Editor. Go to the MUSIC browser. Click on IMPORT. Select the
mod you want to import. If successful, you will now see a UMX package
representation of the mod you imported in the editor. Now click on SAVE to
write mod into a UMX file.
Voila! Your new mod should usually have a section start of 0, and a specifier
like Music'umx.mod' where "mod" is the name of your original mod file and umx
is the name of the UMX file you wrote, but I suggest you keep the two identical
for easy of use.
NOTE: I have included the file "music.htm" from epic Megagames regarding the
matter. You will certainly find some interesting additional infos in it.
