Music System (LOTRO style :) )

[daedalus]

Hehe, this is a "out-of-the-box" suggestion from the trend of "crystal to hold this and that".

Preamble:

Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is a MMORPG ... well, as many others. But it has a nice feature: a music system. You can write soundtracks in-game, import MIDI files, and play music with other people.
Among Youtube videos, are quite famous those ones where people try to play Stones (you KNOW from which RPG is, right?) in LOTRO.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX0eeZzyJas

Now, thinking about Musical Benches and musical pavers we have in PF, I had a suspect, and I looked with UOFiddler about sounds present in the UO client.

I have discovered there are at least 2 octaves of lute, harp and standing harp sounds, which we use here in Paradise to play randomly on those colored pavers /musical benches.

But, why OSI decided to include these sounds? Hmmm... maybe we have spoiled their future projects


The Idea:

A Music System for UO

Something about a gump in form of a musical staff, where you can put notes and play them.
edit: or making it easier, with just a gump where there are buttons you press for a tune... and leave Razor/EUO macros doing the job. Something like the Zelda series for N64 music system:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFL03nGgq4E
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHL7ULr4tY

[A Hippogryph]

I have a play system were currently working on getting to work else where.

If all goes well you should be able to hit [play and then gump would pop up, allowing you a fixed line of approx 25 notes. i would assume 5-10 lines of any piece would be enough.

[A Hippogryph]

The music files were orginaly included in ultima from t2a days. so the notes were always there..
orignaly ultima had adopted a sort of play as you go system, including music, sounds, notes to be played as a player progressed through spots, did certian things, that system/concept was scrapped for a general sound effects / music track though leaving the notes intact still, its nothing new just never utilized.