Faction Editor

[Xen]

I made my own faction for the first time and found 2 problems......

(1)  The music is different and I prefer the original. Can I change it back?
(2)  How do I change the Faction Leader's pic?

Thanks in advance.

[Buster's Uncle]

Pretty much everything about graphics editing can be found in Articles  http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles;cat=6;sort=;sorto=;start=15

This thread should really go in Modding - mind if I move it?

Welcome to AC2, Xen.  Tell us about yourself...

[Xen]

No of course I don't mind. Can't find anything in the Modding section on these problems however, though I'll keep looking.

It seems I'm a drone, so presumably I'll riot if there's insufficient talent around. Interesting prospect........

 

[JarlWolf]

Use the Recreation Commons and the other facilities (AAR threads in particular) to quell your drone status.

Also, I wasn't even a faction could have custom music, yet I've made a fair number..

as for faction leader pictures and other things, refer to modding, graphics thread.

[ariete]

It seems I'm a drone, so presumably I'll riot if there's insufficient talent around. Interesting prospect........

 

what you wanted mean?? what music?? you've already edit pcxs?? show something ...

[Xen]

Until recently I always played the Peacekeepers and I became used to 3 basic melodies. One that plays at the beginning, accompanied by the sound of breathing apparatus - a bit like Darth Vader. Another, more menacing tune when war begins. And a third, more pleasant, when things are going well or when a seabase is created. But since I created another faction - using the Peacekeepers as the template and making only cosmetic changes - they've gone and been replaced by only 2 (?) others that I'd never heard before. It's quite odd.

[Kilkakon]

Custom factions all use the aliens soundtrack. Not much we can do about it unless you want to manually edit the peacekeepers or replace the alien soundtrack with the peacekeeper one.

[Xen]

So that's what it is. Thank you.

I've been looking for sound files but seem unable to find any. How does one change them/it?

[Kilkakon]

I forget actually which files are which, but in the music directory there's a huge amount of wavs and 8 or so other files. Those eight are the soundtracks for the different factions.

[Xen]

Ok, thanks for the help.

[Yitzi]

Custom factions all use the aliens soundtrack. Not much we can do about it unless you want to manually edit the peacekeepers or replace the alien soundtrack with the peacekeeper one.

How are the soundtracks stored?  (i.e. are they all in one file, different files with the same name as the faction, or something else?)

[Kilkakon]

There's hundreds of loose wavs, and then 8ish files that contain the sequences.

[Yitzi]

There's hundreds of loose wavs, and then 8ish files that contain the sequences.

Are those eight named the same as the factions they correspond to (e.g. PEACE.wav for the peacekeepers' soundtrack, etc.)?

[Kilkakon]

Mostly. They are:

aset1.amb - Any non-SMAC faction
bset1.amb
gset1.amb
mset1.amb
pset1.amb
sset1.amb
uset2.amb
ustart.amb

I'm guessing that most of them line up with the initial in the first character of the filenames. Not sure where Hive's one would come in though.

[Yitzi]

So all the SMAX factions have the same soundtrack?