Vae on 30/9/2012 at 21:01
Thanks for doing that, Josh...:thumb:
ArclightBorealis on 30/9/2012 at 21:59
Awesome stuff, Josh.
Valet2 on 30/9/2012 at 22:50
Quote Posted by RocketMan
Just to make sure I understand correctly:
The game's audio is broken up into pieces so that each piece can be triggered in a different location of a given level.
The game shipped with relatively low quality versions of the original music so when "some" of the original scores became available we tried to put the better music in the game except that this music was not broken down into pieces so the game could not use it as it was. In order to break the music up for game use, the music had to be re-sampled, which introduced a slight hiss into the tracks. For fear of degrading the music further, this was left in. This is (until now at least) where we stand with the SHMUP upgrade for ss2
Now, according to this thread, we have the same original high quality music except that we have all of it and it's been broken up into pieces already so we don't need to mess with it and it should sound better than what we currently have???
I noticed 14 tracks in the song.crf archive so please correct me if I'm wrong as I didn't download everything here yet.
Yes and no.
There are two types of music in the game: moody and techno. Moody tracks were written by Ramin, and as far as I remember they were one-piece tracks in the beginning, and it can be clearly heard that some of theme were just cut for making loops to use in the game. Techno tracks were made originally by Josh - he just made some demo tunes and gave them along with naked loops that were used in the tracks to Eric, and he wrote additional beats, created more loops by adding some effects to the original ones, and also added some transitions to these loops (you can listen to both in-game or OST versions and the ones from Josh's archives - you will notice the difference). And speaking of the techno-music it should be changed in order of moving through various locations of the maps, so Eric actually made loops which you can combine in a different way to make your own mix. When we got that cd with the Original SoundTrack it was full of Eric's remixes based on the original loops + additional Eric's loops + mixed and sequenced together to sound like complete songs.
I didn't actually compared the original in-game music files with the ones in SHMUP package. But as far as I know you guys cut these long-played waves from the OST cd into pieces accordingly to the original clips, right? And to force the game to work with 16/44 files you had to put the null-track in 16/44 into each folder, right?
Anyway, now you have more tracks to work with. Including the unreleased ones. So you can make another addon so mod-makers could use more music in their future modifications.
ZylonBane on 1/10/2012 at 01:36
Quote Posted by RocketMan
In order to break the music up for game use, the music had to be re-sampled, which introduced a slight hiss into the tracks.
The original music was released as lossless FLACs.
RocketMan on 1/10/2012 at 01:53
Ah.. so they were. I just re-read Shatten's post and it looks like the hiss was already present.
Kolya on 1/10/2012 at 17:12
Awesome music. :)
So Josh, is it true what (
http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4114.0) Prima's Official Strategy Guide for System Shock 2 reported at the time (on page 127):
Quote:
Many of the textures in the Body of The Many were derived from the colon of Josh Randall.[...] He had to have an endoscopy performed, and asked the doctor for a copy of the film
Inquiring minds want to know. :D
ZylonBane on 1/10/2012 at 17:38
Oh dear. We may yet end up with some authentic high-res BotM textures.
Valet2 on 1/10/2012 at 18:16
That's right! I didn't know this information gone public. He actually has the recording (on vhs), and this part where we travel inside the organism after killing the brain (?) of the Worm was based on his endoscopy.
MidiV on 1/10/2012 at 20:24
What a week!
Thank you, Josh!
I'll try to play with loops eventually.
Robotkid3000 on 1/10/2012 at 22:49
Yes that is a true story. The video has been posted on my website since 2005. Can you guess which one?
(
http://www.robotkid.com/video/video.htm)
You might not like what you find... :wot:
