Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

I have installed the new V3preview (Words can't express how cool it is, its like a completly different game).

I seem to have a problem with my music files. I don't really know anything about decoding, but it appears it may have gone wrong somehow (the music files are silent and very short, and are played as such ingame). I have had a similar problem with another mod in the past that involved decoding music (namely the B5 mod).

Is this a problem with my PC or are other people getting this too?

well...i haven't experianced this problem, try copying the files from a previous version(theones that are the same)

if your talking about the ones in the sounds/music folder directly after installing V3pr, then that would explain it as they are just blank music files. use the ones in the V2 media addon, they are completely compatable.
if you were talking about them to begin with try redownloading the media pack.

well of course, that kinda obvious.

if one of the setup packages didn't download corretly you should have got an error dialog. to have something i can work with could you please go to Start - Run type dxdiag click OK, then, on the bottom of the program, click Save All Information... save the file and attach it to the forum please

how big byte/kb/mb or the music files apart?

DOCa Cola

*realises he completley forgot about the music addon*

:blush:

Dont mind me....i'm just an idiot...

case solved

obviously not lol :lol:  

the music addon will be included in the final of v3 so threads like that won't pop up anymore. not everybody has realized the old multimedia pack works with the pr even though i stated that along with the download... :)

Yeah it works, it only sux that Dominion have feds music :S
The other races are ok though :D

you know you can change it so that they have another races music.

It still wouldnt be Dominion now would it :D :P

well then have no music :P  

Khmmm, how do I change which music plays for the Dominion, I thought I know but I guess I was wrong lol :D

:lol: muppet  :lol:

go into your odf/system folder and find the odf labeled "dominion"

scroll down till you get to:

singlePlayerMusic = "Federation.wav"
multiPlayerMusic = "Federation.wav"

change the multiplayermusic to either

"borg.wav"
"klingon.wav"
"romulan.wav" or
"noxter.wav"

yes the speach marks ARE supposed to be there.
note you can change the single player one as well if want but it wont do much as there aint single player campaign but its still gotta be filled in to stop any crashes.

also note: unsure of compatibility with un changed game, doubt it will be a problem but you never know.

Khmm I will add my own music lol. Will tell you if there are any crash problems. But I dont think there should be :)


BTW: Thanx for the info, I was looking into that odf and I didnt spot that, stupid me  :mellow:  

OK I tested it and it works fine in SP. I also doubt it would create any problems in MP (  compatibility or something) but I did not test it.

So for Dominion I added a sound which CDPelectro once showed us over here is the forums. It is a demo song he created specificaly for the Dominion in FO. Cause its a demo its only a third of the lenght of the other tracks, still it does give u a much better feel for the Dominion than other tracks would give. So if anyone else wants to have specific ingame music for the dominion here is the download link(I uploaded the file to rapidshare): &nsbp; &nsbp; http://rapidshare.de/files/23910151/Dominion.wav.html ( [url=http://rapidshare.de/files/23910151/Dominion.wav.html)]Click[/URL]


Anyway just do what Ryan said in the previous post and add this file to FO install directory\sounds\music and it should work for you just fine  ^_^  

Thanks for the info... I tried the dominion music, but somehow it's too distraction for me.

However, I just added some "war" music from DS9 instead.
Now I finally have motivating music for the Dominion. :D

And it's >3 Minutes, so it's not too repetitive.

Also, I now know that the music can also be 44.1kHz instead of 22kHz and it still works.

I don't think the music will be checked for online play... or do you know of any reports concerning incompatibility between installations with and without the multimedia pack?

the reason i brought it up about compatibility is not because you are changing music content but changing the content of (a very important) odf file ;) . but hey if it works fine then all the better for everyone :)  

Ouch, now I know what you mean. That could be a problem...

Yeah, it does cause incompatibility. Just tested it with cts -.-

Darn thing....

i guess if everyone uses your little dominion music it will be ok after that :sweatdrop:  guess so long as everyone uses the same name in that dominion odf then it will be compatible... should be anyway.

yeah true, but I doubt everyone will :-S

You can of course always change the Federation.wav file, though u would **** up the feds then :(

Why not simply using batch-files?
You just have to know, what you're going to play.

Put your Federation music as fed1.wav into your music directory and your dominion music as dom1.wav.

It would look like this (working directory = fleetops directory):

Selection.bat (needs choice.com (MS-DOS command) in FO directory):


For people who can't find choice.com, 2 files:

Dominion.bat:


Federation.bat:

seems awfully complex for such a trivial matter  :unsure:
probs easier alround to just edit the odfs as neccessary. or just once if everyone can agree on a .wav file to use.

if people want it they can send me the .wav that is wanted for the dominion music and i can put it together, with the change to the odf, inside 1 zip file to upload here (with doca & optecs permission of course), so that there is no problems about people labelling the music differently. (main thing here is to agree on what to use as the music itself).

The complex thing was to write the batch-files.

With the first one, you simply change your shortcut from FleetOps.exe to Selection.bat and you get prompted with this:


Press 1 or 2 and the game starts. ;)


However, an "official" expansion with some Dominion music would really be the best thing.

probably have to wait for the official release of V3 for that ^_^  

You just proposed that kind of thing:

Agreeing on one peace of music and making a zip file so everone uses
the same music and odf and then putting it up here so everyone can grab it.

Thats what I call an "official" expansion.
What you mean is an official expansion. ;) Without the "". :D

there will be a dominion soundtrack within the final v3 release :)

Wow, really? :D Sorry... had to say that. ;)


But for the moment, a simple "fan" solution would be better than waiting for V3, I think.

At the moment, I'm using the Wolf 359 track from the DS9 Emissary Soundtrack...
are there any Dominion war era tracks from DS9 out there?

I dont know of any :s