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Kornel Kisielewicz

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Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« on: December 03, 2007, 17:57 »
Okay, since I'm rewriting the music and sound code now, it will be possible to have music tracks assigned to special levels. However I have no idea what mid to assign to what special level -- please gimme your picks!

Picks must be from the standard midi set that ships with DoomRL (please write filenames as answers). Also, the question is whether to use all of the midis at random for other levels, or only those unassigned? To make things easy, I'll post the list of special levels here:

INTRO - Level 1
SPEC1 - Chained Court
SPEC2 - Halls of Carnage
SPEC3 - Hell's Armory
SPEC4 - Hell's Arena
SPEC5 - Spider's Lair
SPEC6 - City of Skulls
SPEC7 - The Wall
SPEC8 - Unholy Cathedral
SPEC9 - Mortuary

BOSS1 - Phobos Arena
BOSS2 -
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Re: Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2007, 01:03 »
INTRO - Keep as it is. Intro will not be touched!
SPEC1 - Barrels O' Fun, obviously! No other question here.
SPEC2 - The Gantlet, from Doom 2.
SPEC3 - The Crusher, from Doom 2. It has kinda the correctish tune in it.
SPEC4 - Dead Simple, from Doom 2. Because this level is so simple it hurts.
SPEC5 - Dis, obviously, because there are spiders, and in Dis was our first meeting with one hella huge spider. Also there better be a Spider Mastermind at the end of this level, once them little Arachnotrons are done.
SPEC6 - The Courtyard, from Doom 2.
SPEC7 - The Pit, from Doom 2.
SPEC8 - Cotcha!, from Doom 2.
SPEC9 - The Spirit World, from Doom 2. Kinda similarish theme, and the tune fits too.

BOSS1 - Grosse, from the second Doom 2 secret level. 'Twas kinda similar and stuff.
BOSS2 - Icon of Sin, from the final level in Doom 2. Bosses need to have the same music, especially since the bosses themselves are the same.

Also why's the second boss still spoilered out? Everyone knows what's in there already. I mean it. Everyone. And it's not even too big thing to spoil in the first place.
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Re: Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2007, 04:11 »
After listening through mids and comparing to mp3s my picks would be:

INTRO - "11 - hangar.mid"/"e1m1.mp3" - no doubts here
SPEC1 - no idea
SPEC2 - "29 - fortress of mystery.mid"/"e2m9-e3m1.mp3"
SPEC3 - "19 - military base.mid"/"e1m9-e3m9-e4m9.mp3"
SPEC4 - no idea
SPEC5 - "27 - spawning vats.mid"/"e2m7-e3m7-e4m5.mp3"
SPEC6 - no idea
SPEC7 - "28 - tower of babel.mid"/"e2m8.mp3"
SPEC8 - "26 - halls of the damned.mid"/"e2m6-e4m7.mp3"
SPEC9 - "33 - pandemonium.mid"/"e3m3-e4m3.mp3" - note that for some reason this mp3 is unbinded, even though mid version is used!!

BOSS1 - no idea
BOSS2 - no idea

As for Potman's idea of Doom2 music... the problem is that 3 of your proposals lack mp3 counterparts. But generally, it would be nice to have those Doom 2 musics that have mp3 counterparts added in - the more the merrier

As for regular levels - under current music "supply" leave them possibility of any music file. If you'd add Doom2 music though, it might be better to leave music for special leels out of the pool.

PS. It'd be good if you moved the link to mp3 site somewhere more visible ;)
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Re: Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2007, 16:41 »
Phobos Surface: 11 - hangar.mid (It's the first level! You have to use this one!)
Chained Court: 16 - central processing.mid
Halls of Carnage: 19 - military base.mid
Hell's Armory: 33 - pandemonium.mid
Hell's Arena: 14 - command control.mid
Spiders' Lair: 27 - spawning vats.mid
City of Skulls: 15 - phobos lab.mid
The Wall: 32 - slough of despair.mid
Unholy Cathedral: 26 - halls of the damned.mid
The Mortuary: 22 - containment area.mid

Cyberdemon: 28 - tower of babel.mid (It's the song from his level in Doom. It's tradition. XD)
SUPRE SEEKRIT ENDGUY!!11!!: 00 - inter.mid (Is this song used anywhere else in DoomRL?)

Incidentally, Potman's comments about Doom ][ bring up another interesting idea: Why not have two levels based on Wolfenstein 3D's E1M1 and E1M9, just like Doom ][ did? Fighting the SS seems like a respite compared to level after level of Demons and Former Commanders!
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Re: Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2007, 01:20 »
Quote from: sn0rb on December 05, 2007, 16:41
Incidentally, Potman's comments about Doom ][ bring up another interesting idea: Why not have two levels based on Wolfenstein 3D's E1M1 and E1M9, just like Doom ][ did? Fighting the SS seems like a respite compared to level after level of Demons and Former Commanders!

They'd have to be Supeer Seecret, like in the original Doom 2. More secret than the Final Boss, even. But I'm not against it otherwise.
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Re: Pick music for your favourite special level :)
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2007, 09:20 »
INTRO - 11 - hangar.mid. No reason to change this.
SPEC1 - 14 - command control.mid, or 16 - central processing.mid.
SPEC2 - 22 - containment area.mid
SPEC3 - 13 - toxin refinery.mid
SPEC4 - 32 - slough of despair.mid, though actually E2M1 from DOOM would be better, but it's not in the default set.
SPEC5 - 17 - computer station.mid
SPEC6 - 24 - deimos lab.mid
SPEC7 - 18 - phobos anomaly.mid
SPEC8 - 15 - phobos lab.mid
SPEC9 - 26 - halls of the damned.mid

BOSS1 - 18 - phobos anomaly.mid
BOSS2 - 28 - tower of babel.mid

I dunno, that's what I'd pick out of the default MIDI set, but I think you'd do better to bring in some of the other MIDIs from DOOM and DOOM II.
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