Nub ass question: Putting custom music in a UI

[t3h m00kz]

I've been following DG945's tutorial on custom UI screens, and I've managed to get a custom UI up and working. However he didn't go over one topic that I can't figure out at all: music.

I've got custom .sound tags with music, and a .sound_looping tag with those .sound tags listed as tracks, but I can't find out where I'd put it in the .scenario tag to get it to play as music.

Help would be appreciated :p

Oh and also: I love how I downloaded the multiplayer .scenario files from HaloMaps (I was planning on making a Timberland UI) and I get this problem for some essential files, namely the .scenery_light_collision_whateverthefuck files:

"The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or renaming to shorter name(s) before attempting this opperation."

I've taken it down to D:\HEK\Tags\Levels\Test\Timberland and get the same problem.

I don't expect an answer for this, I've come to terms with it. I'm just assuming it's Microsoft being dumb.

[CtrlAltDestroy]

sounds\music\title1\title1.sound_looping

Edit it.

[t3h m00kz]

sounds\music\title1\title1.sound_looping

Edit it.

I looked for that file, I heard someone mentioning it before, all that's in my tags\sounds\music\ directory was som\ with that old Piano music from one of Bungie's older games...

Do I need to reinstall HEK?

[CtrlAltDestroy]

No; you need to extract it from the ui.map with HEK+.

[t3h m00kz]

No; you need to extract it from the ui.map with HEK+.

Sweet dude, I'll try it, thanks.

PS I'd uprep you but I can't for some reason ;o

[Zeph]

No; you need to extract it from the ui.map with HEK+.

either that or make it yourself.

[t3h m00kz]

Wow, I'm a bit confused on how the loop.sounds file works in relation to the title1.sound_looping... It's a bunch of songs split into a bunch of premutations in one .sound file. I think Halo randomly plays those songs in the title, so If I wanted to put multiple songs in my custom UI, would I have to take the songs I want and manually split them into premutations?

If I can only have one song, I'll settle with that :p

[Timo]

If I remember correctly you compile the sound file normally, then check the box at the top of the .sound tag, 'split <blah blah> into permuations", then recompile.

[t3h m00kz]

Figured it out... it's the Structure_BPS. I'll hack around with it and see what I can do.

EDIT: Fuck yeah. Got music playing. Unfortunately it seems to randomly skip through different parts of the song though, which is kind of messed up. :\ I'll keep working on it lol