adaptive music

[livid cargo]

So say you're in a village. Calming music playing. Then you leave said village. The music starts to ramp up, maybe adds more instruments. Then you're in combat, and the music starts playing faster and puts emphasis on the percussion instruments. Then you get to low health and need to lock in, and the music quiets down a bit, and integrates a heartbeat into the mix to add a sense of urgency. Then you die, and the music rips off with a static noise, followed by some kinda "you died/game over" jingle.

Adaptive music is awesome in literally everything, the only good reason for not having is budget constraints 😔

There's gotta be at least 1 music nerd who agrees with me

[vale flame]

I agree, but I wish this was easy to make in Roblox

or at least

reliably implement

can probably do something where you code the bpm and stuff but

idk if higo will go for it so hey

[livid cargo]

Is music not client sided...?

Is Roblox dumb enough to make sound a server sided process???

[vale flame]

I meant like

how roblox works its a pain in the arse to make it happen

[rich shale]

just having combat music to contrast when your just chilling would suffice for most ppl

the heartbeat thing would be a unique addition tho

[livid cargo]

But too often I hear combat music that's just the same song starting over and over again each time I go into and out of combat.

It bugs me that I can't finish a song when casually playing the game. Having a single song seamlessly move in the flow of the game is just better in every way 😔

But man if Roblox is the limiting factor here... That bums me out so hard actually 😞

[vale flame]

nah its def possible

[livid cargo]

Dude I am going to study the hell out of adaptive music, I will make it my mission to see it everywhere (within reason, I ain't knocking on AAA doors)

also what in the time zone is that 6:22am reply

[meager wigeon]

would be sick asl

[woeful vale]

yeah i agree

[livid cargo]

Thank you @sly nova for the music, it's actually surprisingly wonderful considering it'll be in Roblox 🙏

Do you know the process of making adaptive music? Or do you focus less on the technical side and more the applicative side of music?

[rich shale]

adding to this thread i really hope theres unique music for each area and some ambience

[sly nova]

I’d love to do adaptive music but it probably won’t be happening for Hinokami, takes a fair bit of coordination between the scripter(s) and composer. I’m actually planning to do fully adaptive music systems for some other projects I’m on but those haven’t been announced yet :P

[vale flame]

^ this
I say it's a pain in the arse beccause it's alot easier to do outside of roblox using a third party software, but even though roblox runs on that third party softwaare they likely won't let us use something like that

[meager wigeon]

dang it was a nice thought tho

[livid cargo]

Holy hekk I'm excited for those projects then

[livid cargo]

I'm rioting at Roblox HQ tbh

[vale flame]

we'd have to code our own but thats alot of coordination with higoshi

[full yew]

if the devs cook this im glazing this game for years to come

[livid cargo]

So what you're saying is "please proceed with your riot at Roblox HQ"

[sly nova]

absolutely.

audio is so outrageously limited on roblox 😭

[livid cargo]

On it boss 🫡

[vale flame]

it took em years to add audio detection and a buncha other stuff

[woeful vale]

Cant yall contact rblx Support and maybe ask for help?

[vale flame]

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