Background Music

posted on October 15th, 2009, 4:29 am

While I see the "music" slider in the Sound menu (and I have it turned all the way up), I don't hear any background music.

So, assuming that there isn't any background music, it would be nice to have mood dependent background music (i.e. slower tempo music while not in combat, faster tempo music while in combat).

(I hope I'm not missing something )

posted on October 15th, 2009, 4:47 am

Did you install the multimedia pack which has to be downloaded separately?
Otherwise you won't hear any music in FO.

I don't know if FO supports dynamic background music. If so it were cool to have some tracks additional to those in the multimedia pack. But I can't remember the unmodded A2 to do that so I don't really see a chance to get this feature for FO.
But who knows what the devs might come up with sooner or later 

posted on October 15th, 2009, 8:09 am

Yes. The barebones FO installable doesn't contain any music. you need to dowload the multimedia pack to get it. It's basically tracks from different series and movies, with no dynamic feedback from what's happening on screen. It plays music suited to the race/faction you select, though.

Having music change to the on-screen happenings would mean a major rework in the part of the program that deals with music AND composing music basically from scratch.

posted on October 15th, 2009, 10:05 am

Just go the lazy route, that makes it much quicker and easier... Music Mute + Media Player = Any music you want with no compatibility issues.