Tip 32 - Music

I'm dedicating an entire page to music because it is so important in a game like Galactic Civilizations. 

Don't get me wrong, I love the music in Dark Avatar - it's wonderful... but when you spend 100 hours playing a game - the same melodies can kind of drag after a while - especially when it's the same 2-5 minute pieces repeating endlessly.  So sometimes it's good to change things up a bit.

There are 4 directories that contain all the music for the game.  The music in the Dark Avatar directory over-rides that in the root Gal Civ 2 directory. 

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I want to swap out the main theme that plays the most, and I'm going to put in a longer piece of music.  One of my favorite musical scores of all time was created by Michael Z. Land for an old Lucasarts game called, "The Dig".    http://dig.mixnmojo.com/downloads/index.html   (if you have your speakers on/up that's the music now playing in the background).

For this example we're going to replace the main theme that plays most often. 

I first made a back of the music file I want to replace (DA_MainTheme.mp3)

I copied my new music over (Mission to the Asteroid from The Dig).

Now all I have to do (above), is delete the original music file (DA_MainTheme.mp3), and rename the "Mission to the Asteroid" file to  DA_MainTheme.mp3

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I'll repeat the above steps, but this time I'll replace the Space07.mp3 file.

Music from "2001 Space Odyssey", Holst's "The Planets", "Star Wars", are all fun replacements you can use.  Personally I like going back to older pc games and using that music.  i.e.  Ascendancy, The Dig, Masters of Orion, etc.

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