Sounds

[Primus Motor]

Hi

How do you include custom music into the game? As in, music what plays when you talk to a specific leader and the soundtrack? Like, how much coding is involved and any specific quality?

Also, can you make a shortcut to Civilization4.exe which could instantly load a specific mod? Something like -loadmod blah or somesort...

 

[Bezurn]

First question. not sure, haven't gotten into working with sounds. I imagine some things could be done in xml, python for the others.

Second question. You can define a mod for the game to load on startup by editing your ini file in ...

C:\documents and settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meirer's Civilization 4\Civilization.ini

Look for this line...
; Specify a Mod folder (Mods\Mesopotamia), '0' for none
Mod = 0

Enter the path to your mod (located in Program files)

Good luck with the sound thing.

 

[Kael]

Yes, most of the sounds are defined in the xml/audio directory. Its pretty easy to replace or add new sounds with mp3's. I've added new religions and new theme for each and sound effects for my hawk, demon, and fireball spells.