Rockin' Mod

[PolarisSLBM]

So I was screwing around with Civilization IV, listening to my custom soundtrack of 1980's heavy metal, and I had an idea. I want to replace the Leonard Nimoy blurbs with short clips of rock and metal songs.

Couple questions. First, is this possible (or easy)? Secondly, if I used actual, yet short (in the neighborhood of five to fifteen seconds a piece) clips of songs, would I be able to upload it (or even discuss it) here?

Agriculture : Metallica - Bad Seed
-'You bit more than you need, an' now you're chokin' on the bad seed, ah chokin'...'
Alphabet : ?
Animal Husbandry : ?
Archery : ?
Artillery : AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
-'For those about to rock, fire! *BOOM* We salute you...'
Assembly Line : ?
Astronomy : Blue Oyster Cult / Metallica - Astronomy
-'Astronomy, a star, astronomy...'
Banking : Lynyrd Skynyrd - Mr. Banker
Biology : ?
Bronze Working : ?
Calendar : ?
Chemistry : ?
Civili Service : ?
Code Of Laws : Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
-'Breakin' the law, breakin' the law...'
Combustion : ?
Communism : Scorpions - Winds Of Change
-'Follow the Moskva, down to Gorky Park, listenin' to the winds of changes...'
Compass : Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
-'Until I find him, never gonna stop searchin', gonna find my man, gonna travel round...'
Composites : ?
Computers : Megadeth - Hangar 18
-'Computer banks to rule the world, instruments to sight the stars...'
Constitution : ?
Construction : Alice Cooper - House Of Fire
-'Buildin' a house of fire, baby, buildin' it with our love...'
Corporation : ?
Currency : Pink Floyd - Money
-Not sure which verse yet
Democracy : Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
-'If you listen to fools, the mob rules...'
Divine Right : Megadeth - Holy Wars
-'Ask the sheep, for their beliefs, do you kill on God's command...'
Drama : Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
-'Things will be better, when I'm dead and gone, don't try to understand, knowin' you, I'm prob'ly wrong...'
Ecology : Megadeth - Dawn Patrol
-'Pretending not to notice, how hist'ry had forebode us, with the greenhouse in effect, our environment was wrecked...'
Economics : ?
Education : Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
-'We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control...'
Electricity : Metallica - It's Electric
-'Yeaaaaah, it's electriiiiiic, it's electric...'
Engineering : ?
Fascism : ?
Fuedalism : ?
Fiber Optics : ?
Fishing : ?
Fission : Megadeth - Rust In Peace... Polaris
-'High priest of holocaust, fire from the sea, nuclear winter spreading design, the day of final conflict all pay the price, the third world war rapes peace, takes life...'
Flight : Iron Maiden - Aces High
-'Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die...'
Fusion : ?
Future Tech : Iron Maiden - Caught Somewhere In Time
-'Caught somewhere in tiiii-ime...'
Genetics : ?
Guilds : ?
Gunpowder : AC/DC - Fire Your Guns
-'Yeaaaah, you want some fire, you gotta fire your guns, fire your guns...'
Horseback Riding : Metallica - Four Horsemen
-'Horsemen are drawing nearer, on leather steeds they ride, they come to take your life...'
Hunting : ?
Industrialism : ?
Iron Working : About a dozen Manowar songs...
Liberalism : Metallica - Free Speech For The Dumb
-'Free speech, free speech, for the dumb, free speech, free spech, for the dumb...'
Literature : ?
Machinery : ?
Masonry : ?
Mass Media : ?
Mathematics : ?
Medicine : Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
-'You're love is like bad medicine, bad medicine is what I need, woah-oh-oh...'
Meditation :
Metal Casting : Quiet Riot - Metal Health / Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal
'Bang your head, metal health will drive you mad...' / 'Get your one way ticket to midnight, call it, heavy metal...'
Military Tradition : Iron Maiden - The Trooper ?
Mining : AC/DC - Hard As A Rock
-'Hard as a rock, hard as a rock, yeah harder than a rock...'
Monarchy : Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen / Megadeth - Kill The King
-'God save the Queen, her fascist regime...' / 'Kill the king, the king is dead, long live the king, I am the king...'
Monotheism : Stryper - In God We Trust
-'In God we trust, in Him we must, believe...'
Music : AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
-'Oh, let there be rock!'
Mysticism : ?
Nationalism : Iron Maiden - The Trooper
-'We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground, and the Russians fire another round, we get so near, yet so far away, we won't live to fight another day...'
Optics : Motley Crue - Looks That Kill
-'She's got the looks that kill, that kiii-iil...'
Paper : ?
Philosophy : ?
Physics : ?
Plastics : ?
Polytheism : ?
Pottery : Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (heh heh)
-'I love you sweet leaf, though you can't feel, all right now'
Priesthood : The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
-'Pleased to meet you, won't you guess my name...'
Printing Press : ?
Radio : Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
-'Turn up the radio, I need the music, gimme some more...'
Railroad : Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
-'I'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train...'
Refrigeration : Alice Cooper - Refrigerator Heaven
-'I been admitted to refrigerator heaven...'
Replaceable Parts : ?
Rifling : ?
Robotics : Styx - Mr. Roboto
-'Thank you very much, oh, Mr. Roboto, for doing the jobs that nobody wanted to...'
Rocketry : Def Leppard - Rocket
-'Rocket, yeah, satellite of love...'
Sailing : Styx - Come Sail Away
-'Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me...'
Satellites : AC/DC - Satellite Blues
-'New satellite blues, new satellite blues...'
Scientific Method : ?
Steam Power : ?
Steel : Iron Maiden - Sun And Steel
-'Sunlight, falling on your steel, taking life is your ideal, life is like a wheel...'
Theology : Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
-'There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven...'
Wheel : Dio - Stand Up And Shout / Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain / Saxon - Wheels Of Steel
-'You've been nailed to the wheel, but never really turning, you only seem to crawl...' / 'I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel, I can roll, I can feel, you can't stop me turnin'...' / 'She's got wheels, wheels of steel...'
Writing : The Beatles - Paperback Writer
-'It's based on a story by a man named Mears, and I need a job, so I want to be a paperback writer, paperback writer...'

 

[Shqype]

AudioDefines.xml
<SoundData>
<SoundID>SND_TECH_MYSTICISM</SoundID>
<Filename>Sounds/Tech/Tech_Mysticism</Filename>
<LoadType>DYNAMIC_RES</LoadType>
<bIsCompressed>1</bIsCompressed>
<bInGeneric>1</bInGeneric>
</SoundData>

Then go into the sounds folder in the Civ4 asset directory, then the tech folder, and you will find the MP3s of the tech sounds. You can put in new mp3s (of rock music, lets say) and alter the above information to this:

<SoundData>
<SoundID>SND_TECH_MYSTICISM</SoundID>
<Filename>Sounds/Tech/Tech_Mysticism_Rock_Music</Filename>
<LoadType>DYNAMIC_RES</LoadType>
<bIsCompressed>1</bIsCompressed>
<bInGeneric>1</bInGeneric>
</SoundData>

Hope that helps.

 

[PolarisSLBM]

Cool, that does not look too hard.

Now, am I right in assuming that the tech_MP files are for multi-player? They do not have the nifty quotes, they just go 'you have discovered such-and-such'.

I figured out how to change the tech quotes, CIV4GameTextInfos.xml , so I am going to change those to reflect the new things.

Finally, I am not entirely sure how to operate or create a mod. Do I just put the files in their respective locations in the 'customassets' folder and then they will work? If I wanted to distribute it, could I just zip-up the specifically changed directories and just put that up?

 

[Rushster]

Yoiu gotta get Judas Priest Breaking he Law in somehow just for cheese-factor

 

[PolarisSLBM]

Yoiu gotta get Judas Priest Breaking he Law in somehow just for cheese-factor

Which tech should that go with, though?

 

[Dansc]

Which tech should that go with, though?

Code of Laws, obviously.

 

[Quinzy]

just lookin through my playlists. here's all i can come up with at the moment:

banking- lynyrd skynyrd- mr. banker
" mr banker, oh, mister please, wont you reconcider mister? wont you bury mah poppa for me..?"

gunpowder- AC DC- fire your guns

theology- led zeppelin- stairway to heaven

archery or brozeworking or rifling- black sabbath-war pigs

polytheism-nirvana-jesus dont want me for a sunbeam

 

[Red Door]

Another idea for Satellites,
AC/DC- Satellite Blues
For medicine (this idea is stretching it, big time)
Neil Young- The Needle and the Damage Done

 

[Junuxx]

Very cool idea! I see you have some 70's rock and punk too
*Starts searching for suggestions...*

Agriculture: Pink Floyd-The Scarecrow : "He stood in a field where barley grows."
Animal Husbandry: Pink Floyd - Pigs, Pink Floyd- Sheep
Astronomy: Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine: "Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon,Miranda and Titanian, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten..."
Code of Law: Dead Kennedies - I fought the law: "You can get away with murder if you've got a badge / I fought the law and I won"
Constitution : Bad Religion - You are the government
Divine Right: Sex Pistols - Submission
Drama: Foo Fighters- Stacked Actors "Hey hey now, can you fake it? Can you make it look like we want? "
Education: Sevendust - School's out, Nirvana - School
Electricity: Metallica - It's Electric
Fascism : Rammstein-Links 2 3 4, Dead Kennedies-California &#252;ber Alles
Flight: System of a Down - Jet Pilot, Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Horseback Riding: The Clash - Four Horsemen
Liberalism: Metallica-Free speech for the dumb
Literature: Faith no more-Epic
Machinery: Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (Maybe better for Electronics/Computers)
Nationalism: Jimi Hendrix- Star spangled banner
Mass Media: RHCP - Throw away your television, Misfits - Hollywood Babylon
Meditation: Bush - Everything Zen
Music: Dire Straits- Sultans of Swing
Optics: Pearl Jam-Oceans
Paper: Metallica-Turn the Page
Philosophy: Bad Religion-Change of Ideas "So many theories, so many prophecies, What we do need is a change of ideas."
Rifling: Bachman Turner Overdrive - Shotgun Rider
Polytheism: Kula Shaker-Govinda
Scientific Method: Bad Religion - Materialist, Bad Religion-Prove it

 

[Snowboard guy]

Nationalism-the tropper-iron maiden
optics- ghoust of the navigator-iron madien
democarcy- anarchy in the -megadeth
Animal Husbandry- gengis khan- iron maiden
flight-aces high- iron maiden
future tech-Caught Somewhere In Time-iron maiden
mass media-radio/video-system of a down
gentics-virus-iron madien
Industrialism-holy smoke- iron madien

 

[OzzyKP]

I just took stuff from the song titles, not the actual lyrics. So who knows if any of these are actually applicable. I didn't feel like reading (or remembering) what hte lyrics said.

Agriculture : Metallica - Bad Seed or Metallica - Breadfan or Metallica - Harvester Of Sorrow
Chemistry : Slayer - Chemical Warfare
Code Of Laws : Metallica - And Justice For All or Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Constitution : Judas Priest - Revolution
Divine Right : Megadeth - Holy Wars, Metallica - King Nothing
Fission : Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire, Ozzy - Killer Of Giants
Gunpowder : Ozzy - Suicide Solution (the people who thought there were hidden lyrics on the song and sued Ozzy said the hidden message was "shoot, shoot, shoot, get the gun" that'd be funny to put in)
Horseback Riding/Military Tradition : Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Horseback Riding : Metallica - Four Horsemen
Iron Working : Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Industrialism : Diamond Head - Blitzkrieg (blitzkrieg - tanks?)
Mathematics : Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast or Metallica - 2x4
Medicine : Metallica - Crash Course In Brain Surgery or Sanitarium or Cure
Mining : AC/DC - Hard as a Rock
Paper : Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (diary - paper?)
Priesthood : Something by Judas Priest I imagine
Radio : RATM - Guerilla Radio
Railroad : Saxon - Princess Of The Night, or Ozzy - Crazy Train
Rifling : RATM - Revolver
Scientific Method : System of a Down - Science

 

[Red Door]

Education-Alice Cooper-School's Out
Writing-Beatle-Paperback Writer
Flight(more for bombers)-Clash-Spanish Bombs
Gunpowder-Clash-Tommy Gun
Theology-Any Version of Knockin' on Heavens Door(preferably Guns and Roses)
Music-Led Zeppelin-Rock and Roll
Democracy-Pearl Jam and Neil Young-Rockin' in the Free World
Preisthood-Rolling Stones-Sympathy for the Devil
Nationalism-The White Stripes-Seven Nation Army
Electronics-The Who-Pinball Wizard

 

[lifeaquatic]

terrible horrible idea.

 

[PolarisSLBM]

terrible horrible idea.

Thanks for your support.

Anyway, I added a few more songs to the list. Now begins the arduous task of picking up the large amount of song ideas I do not readily have access to, before I start making judgements.

 

[Quinzy]

railroad- motorhead-iron horse
electricity-black sabbath-electric funeral
radio-queen-radio ga ga
gunpowder-ac dc-t.n.t
rocketry-ac dc-heatseeker
machinery-deep purple-ted the mechanic

 

[Simetrical]

Just so you know, this will be illegal if released in most major Western nations. The music is copyrighted, of course, and the fact that it's non-profit, attributed, and brief snippets does not allow it to qualify for fair use as per long-standing common law precedent, since its goal is not to review, parody, educate, or the like; its goal is not at all transformative, but rather is pretty much identical to the original authors' intent (i.e., production of enjoyable music).

As Justice Story put in in his famous opinion in Folsom v. Marsh, "if the defendants may take three hundred and nineteen letters, included in the plaintiffs' copyright, and exclusively belonging to them, there is no reason why another bookseller may not take another five hundred letters, and a third, one thousand letters, and so on, and thereby the plaintiffs' copyright be totally destroyed."

Which is not to say anyone's going to bother suing you, or that they'd be awarded any damages if they did sue you, but it's still pretty clearly illegal. Just in case you care.

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Yes - feel free to discuss this issue here (and the mechanics of how to do it), but please don't upload any music etc.

 

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