mp3/Custom Music Support Suggestions

[Boman Veins]

I'm guessing a lot of people are going to have ideas for mp3 support. It may be easier on Dave to have it all in one thread, so please put any mp3 suggestions in here.

I know this is really quick and I am appreciative of the fantastic updates Spike Chunsoft have provided us, but just a few ideas to help make the shiny new mp3 support even better.

1) For in-match background music, a random option like the old games would be great.

2) Split the folder directory for music into two different locations: BGM & Themes. Therefore, if we ever do get a random BGM option, we can avoid having entrance songs played as BGM, plus it would make the menu for selecting BGM much more manageable.

3) This is definitely the most complex and the least likeliest of the bunch, but we download a lot of incredible edits and it will be a pain to clone said downloaded edits to assign custom entrance music. Would it be possible to create a menu in the edit options that would allow us to assign custom mp3 entrance music for downloaded edits? That way we would save time by avoiding the cloning process and it would be much cleaner. Ideally, the entrance theme selection would not be overwritten when the author updates his or her edits. Is this at all possible? I know this is whinging about a new, great feature but I'm not looking forward to cloning hundreds of edits for custom entrance music, cluttering up an already cluttered save file, and having to put the original downloaded edits in the retired section.

[Peter Moore]

Throw in another vote for all three of those options.

As you said, suggestion number three is the least likely, but my god would it be a relief for those of us with several hundred edits.

[AcidDragon]

A field to delay how long the wrestler stands on the entrance ramp (or before he appears at the entrance) in order to make the entrance longer would be nice as I feel some songs could use some extra play time.

[Rainmaker]

Being able to randomize all the custom songs for the menues, including theme songs would be great too. Thats probably the only thing i like about some of the wwe games i've played.

As for the custom music for downloaded CAWs, a simple feature to link a song to the id of the caw would be enough, havent check the code yet but maybe its doable via mod. I will take a look at it.

[TeamSuk]

Originally posted by diesauredrachen:

A field to delay how long the wrestler stands on the entrance ramp (or before he appears at the entrance) in order to make the entrance longer would be nice as I feel some songs could use some extra play time.

This!

[Castor Troy]

Reposting my post from another thread.

The whole point of the game is to download workshop creations and play with them. Now I have to create my own copy of the character in order to add custom music? Now I have two characters, one with music, one without? It's just really wonky. You can't download music on the workshop so why not let me edit my downloaded workshopped characters?

Here's how you fix the situation.

ANY field or setting you edit in a downloaded workshopped wrestler would NOT update when the original author posts updates. Of course you should be able to remove your custom options to update the wrestlers. Here's how it would work. You'd have some kind of button or toggle that would reset THAT specific field back to the default that the author set.

Let's say that I download a wrestler and he has brown hair. If I change the color of that wrestlers hair, it should stay brown, even if the author uploads new changes to the character. So basically any setting that I change will not be overwritten by the original author, unless I say "Set back to default."

This way you could add custom music easily to downloaded wrestlers and you wouldn't have to mess with the whole local vs workshop duplicate characters. I really can't see a downside to what I'm suggesting here if it's technically possible to do. This solution would allow people to customize or tweak small visual changes or moves to their liking without needing to copy the character entirely and they'd still get updates from the author. For example I may not like the look of a character but I might like the logic. If the author is constantly updating the logic I'd like to keep getting those updates, but not the visual updates.

I guess you could break the sections down in sections and check whether you want them to auto update or not. If not, new updates would respect the changes you made.

Visuals
Moveset
Logic
Music
(Maybe there's more but those are the ones I could remember off the top of my head)

I don't see a downside to it and it seems like it would solve a lot of problems.

[Yamagyeto]

Adding a few suggestions:

Add music looping support.
Tested a few audio files that would work in other games (MUGEN, MT Framework games [UMVC3, Dragon's Dogma, etc.], RPG Maker XP and beyond) to find that FPWW doesn't support .ogg tags (LoopStart, LoopEnd and/or LoopLength). This isn't a problem for entrance music, but it is for fights that last a long time. While simply extending the track is an option, adding support for loop points would help to cut down bloated files on the user's part while allowing for a quality sound experience.

Add a menu DJ (at least for the creation menus).
While I've grown to like the default menu music, the length of time one tends to spend in the creation menus with the same song could drive people to mute the game altogether. Adding support to use custom music in these menus, as well as a button to fade into the next (randomly selected) song, for starters, would be a welcome addition.

Add the option to adjust volume during a match.
There's bound to be players who will not be able to anticipate each track for how loud it will sound in game. Having to back out of a match/league/tourney all the way to the main menu because one track happened to be particularly loud/quiet is tedious, and adding the option to adjust the music mid match would be a quick solution for the user.

[Dogmeat]

I wonder if they could have two music options, one for customs and the way it is, and the custom one just wouldn't change with the workshop...it would just stay default until the user changed it.

[misr12]

I Seriously think being able to choose wrestler theme prematch would alleviate ppl problem

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example you could choose all 8 wrestler themes and it will overwrite that wrestler theme at the moment for that one match


in tournament having the option of selecting all wrestler theme b4 the tournament mode starts it would greatly alleviate people problems

without needing to duplicate a caw.

nor having to have a button to add a wrestler theme in or not

i see that being a easier thing to do than having a update or not button.

[The Asgorian Bugsong]

It would be nice like said if there was a seperate option that allowed us to apply themes to the downloaded wrestlers we already have. No one is gonna wanna spend hours duplicating every fighter they downloaded, loosing out on future updates just so they can give them an entrance theme.

[Castor Troy]

I don't like the idea of picking the theme before the match. That would cause unnecessary downtime and it would be annoying.

[Slime]

Originally posted by Castor Troy:

I don't like the idea of picking the theme before the match. That would cause unnecessary downtime and it would be annoying.

Agreed. I think the best option, if possible, is what a few people have mentioned already: A separate section in the Edit menu that lists all your edits, downloaded or not, and being able to assign themes from there.

[Boman Veins]

Just to make sure people know, Carlzilla's latest mod update includes a theme database tool that pretty much does everything #3 in the wishlist wanted. We are lucky to have such fantastic support from the community.