shadow Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Hey, do any of you guys know how to put the Atreides music into the common music? You know...the music from the Atreides Campaign into the Skirmish Battle? I really need someone to tell me how to put the music into the Music.bag 'cause I already tried cut and paste and some other kind of crap. Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IxianMace Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 It is possible to add all the Atreides Music so you can play it in skirmish.First, download a program called BagTool. This will allow you to extract and recompile the music.bag files that the game reads in order to play music.Insert the Atreides CD into your CD drive, and open up BagTool.In BagTool, go to the File menu, and click on 'Open BAG File...'.Search for and open the music.bag file located in the WestwoodEmperorDataMUSIC folder. The location of this folder will vary depending on where you installed the game.Once you've found and opened the music.bag folder, you should see the contents of the file listed in the BagTool window. Now go to the File menu, and select 'Add BAG File...'.Search for the music.bag file on the Atreides CD. Select it, and click 'OK'.The tracks from the Atreides CD will be added to the list you already have. Go to the File menu again, and select 'Save As...'. Save the file with the name music, and leave the file format as .bag.You will want to save the new music.bag file in the WestwoodEmperorDataMUSIC folder, because this is where the game will look for the music.bag file when it goes to play music.Depending on how fast your computer is, saving the new music.bag file can be a time consuming process. You'll have to wait for the process to complete. :)Once the new music.bag file has been saved in the WestwoodEmperorDataMUSIC folder with the tracks from the Atreides CD added, close BagTool.Now navigate to your WestwoodEmperorDATAMUSIC folder and open up the CommonMusic.txt file.Look for this:;; Atreides Skirmish themes;[Atreides1]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT01)The_War_BeginsTitle = The War BeginsPhase = 0[Atreides7]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT07)Ride_the_WormTitle = Ride the WormPhase = 0Now copy and paste the following directly below what is above.[Atreides13]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT02)Sand_ExcursionTitle = Sand ExcursionPhase = 0[Atreides14]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT03)Assembling_the_TroopsTitle = Assembling the TroopsPhase = 0[Atreides15]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT04)The_Spice_Must_FlowTitle = The Spice Must FlowPhase = 0[Atreides16]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT05)The_OverseerTitle = The OverseerPhase = 0[Atreides17]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT06)Battle_of_the_AtreidesTitle = Battle of the AtreidesPhase = 0[Atreides18]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT08)Infiltrating_HKTitle = Infiltrating the HarkonnenPhase = 0[Atreides19]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT09)Unsuspected_AttackTitle = Unsuspected AttackPhase = 0[Atreides20]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT10)Fremen_AllianceTitle = Fremen AlliancePhase = 0[Atreides21]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT11)Assassination_AttemptTitle = Assassination AttemptPhase = 0[Atreides22]Group = Atreides HDData = (AT12)Fight_in_the_DunesTitle = Fight in the DunesPhase = 0When done, save the changes to the CommonMusic.txt file, and close it.Now go to run the game, and when you play skirmish as House Atreides, you should notice that all of the Atreides tracks will be played.Make sure you make a backup of your original music.bag file and your original CommonMusic.txt file before you make any changes to them, in case you want to revert back to the originals without re-installing the game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Okay, I decided to post on this thread instead, since it provided 1/3 of the solution. I noticed that the numbers started from 13. Why? Can I just start them from 1 to 12? Yes, I have done the music.bag stuff. What if I want to do the same for Harkonnen and Ordos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spicy Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 sweet dune2000 were u have sutch beautyfull muzik and u can choose what song to playe or make it random. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tag Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 My reccomendation has always been to ignore bothering to edit Emperor and simply extract the mp3s to your hard drive using the BagTool application as mentioned by IxianMace. Then play them in an external program such as WinAmp or Media Player and disable the Emperor in-game music. Since the amount of hard drive space consumed is the same and as Emperor merely acts as a jukebox, as opposed to Dune II which differentiated between "battle" and "scroll" music, you're not losing much this way and you gain a great deal more control over your playlist. This to say nothing of the fact that you can now listen to the Emperor music in or out of the game.--Bashar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted August 1, 2005 Share Posted August 1, 2005 Top advice there, man !There a man who know what he is talking about. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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