Music Modding Progress! (I give up)

[Kvellen]

"Hurray, I figured out how to replace the music in Deadfire" is what I thought around this time last year when I managed to replace a piece of music and thought I had the solution to sound/music modding in Deadfire. However, upon further attempts to replace other tracks I soon came to a crushing realisation that; no, a version of Wwise from 2017 is not the answer. It is just that the file (3123410.wem) that plays on the main menu is maybe the only file that can be replaced (And using pretty much any versions of Wwise to convert it).

Why am I posting this now? Pretty much enough time has past that the sting has gone out of it, but all the same I don't think I wish to continue looking into music modding anymore. I still like the music (Yes even Encampment by night) that I am not in any hurry to replace it.

It's possible there are other files can be replaced or that the main menu hold the key to all of this. But I'd rather leave it to someone else to figure that out.

Should anyone be interested in diving into this topic, one avenue I've only looked into a little (skimmed some forums threads and youtube tutorials) is researching solutions modders for other games that use Wwise have come up with. The newer Resident Evil games use Wwise, and the modding community for those games have managed to replace sounds and music. There are mods (Familiar Music Replacement) on nexus for Witcher 3 that replace music. Perhaps there is somewhere in these modding communities lies something that can be applied to replacing music in Deadfire?

But most likely the only way to get real answers is to learn how to actually use Wwise itself. 

Edited February 4 by Kvellen

[MaxQuest]

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But most likely the only way to get real answers is to learn how to actually use Wwise itself. 

I have also took a quick look into voice/music modding... But quickly nopped out of there.

It's just ugh...

[Kvellen]

I got into Deadfire modding by making Voice sets, so things like the chatter system at least make some kind of sense to me at this point. But yeah it is so weird to have it be inconsistent where some audio files can be replaced no problem, but then others when replaced just seem to become unrecognisable to the game.

Edited February 5 by Kvellen