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I thought about why I was using a mod to totally disable bards' automatic playing, and I realized that it wasn't because I disliked the idea of such a feature (I think it's actually quite immersive, more so than ambient tavern music). It was because of two reasons:

1) I dislike the bards' music (both singing and instrumentals)

2) The audience gathering and clapping scene is obnoxious and can actually disrupt scenes that I am interested in.

 

So, what does this mod do?

- Changes to Bard Scenes to either skip dialogue in favour of replacement (songs) or to redirect sounds to new files (instrumental).

- Change to script (SF_BardAudienceQuestScene_00108ED5) for Bard Audience Scene to cause it to end as soon as it attempts to start.

 

Bards will now randomly (not equally randomly, but approximately enough) choose songs from a custom directory to play. This applies to bards' instrumental music and singing music (they both select from the same pool of files).

 

How do you customize your music?

Installing the mod, you'll see that a new folder is added (Data\Sounds\fx\DAIBard). This folder contains 20 silent .xwm files. Replace them with your own music (converted to .xwm) and remember to rename them appropriately. The first 10 tracks ("Track01.xwm", "Track02.xwm", ..., "Track10.xwm") are for female bards (so put female-voiced songs in those slots); the last 10 ("Track11.xwm", "Track12.xwm", ..., "Track20.xwm") are for male bards (so put male-voiced songs in those slots); if you don't really care, then just duplicate you first ten tracks and rename them.

 

Why is stuff in this mod prefixed by "DAI"?

I originally made this to replace the Vanilla bard songs with bard songs from Dragon Age: Inquisition. And, I personally, like the first, sixth, and ninth tracks a lot. If your interested in those tracks, Bioware is giving them out for free for a limited time (until February 9, 2015): http://www.dragonage.com/en_US/news/inquisition-tavern-songs-giveaway

 

Notes about the result of this mod

You'll find that the bards will still select their instruments (Lute, Flute, Drum, Voice) based on the original track that was going to be played, but your custom track will be played instead. They will still animate (if applicable). They will not lip-sync the new track (nor will they lip-sync at all).

 

Changelog:

v1.0

- Initial release.

v1.1

- Tracks played are now dependent on the bard's gender. Tracks 01 to 10 make up the female bard songs pool, and tracks 11 to 20 make up the male bard songs pool.



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