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Tips for rescoring

Started by November 15, 2014 03:16 PM
14 comments, last by Nyaanyaa 10 years, 1 month ago

The Fantasia animations seem like ideal targets for this kind of exercise, unless you're specifically looking for something with a CC license.

The only problem with a Fantasia redesign is that Disney is very strict with their copyright protection. Everything I've ever done with Disney (which were all very small things like ADR and ISDN Patches) came with tons of legal paperwork. For private use, as an exercise, it's probably fine, but I wouldn't put it on anything public like Youtube or whatever.

obviously synchronising is a no no. But if the track is entierly original then it can be posted on its own.

I wrote 'son of rome', after browsing Ryse screenshots.

Ryse was such a wasted opportunity: You've got a great story, stunning graphics, involved gameplay, fantastic atmosphere and sound design etc but 45 minutes of rubbish generic music, so sad.

https://soundcloud.com/matt-milne-8/sets/demo-reel-full

Composer: Wings over the Reich, Wings Over Flanders Fields, Rise of Flight - top 20 wargames of all time - PC Gamer

 

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What I'd do is put a disclaimer, both in the video itself and in the info section, that details this was done purely as an exercise and isn't any part of the official property/brand/etc

Yeah, I think that's what I'll do if I decide to put the work online. Might avoid some legal troubles.


The only problem with a Fantasia redesign is that Disney is very strict with their copyright protection. Everything I've ever done with Disney (which were all very small things like ADR and ISDN Patches) came with tons of legal paperwork. For private use, as an exercise, it's probably fine, but I wouldn't put it on anything public like Youtube or whatever.

Geez! I'll keep that in mind then: avoid Disney. Thanks for the feedback!


obviously synchronising is a no no. But if the track is entierly original then it can be posted on its own.

Yeah sure, posting only the track is problem free, but I think that it kinda lose its purpose as I want to show the conversation between music and image.

And thanks a lot for the suggestion, gonna check the soundtrack from Ryse! Never played the game btw.

Another option is some games such as Left 4 Dead 2 have all of their sound folders open and can be replaced with any other .wav file (providing it's the same length), theoretically allowing you to rescore the entire game. It's great because you can compose a piece, and then experience it in game as an interactive piece of music.

Following that you can release your score to the Steam Workshop as a mod for people to download.

If anyone knows any other games with replaceable sound files I'd love to know!

Another option is some games such as Left 4 Dead 2 have all of their sound folders open and can be replaced with any other .wav file (providing it's the same length), theoretically allowing you to rescore the entire game. It's great because you can compose a piece, and then experience it in game as an interactive piece of music.

Following that you can release your score to the Steam Workshop as a mod for people to download.

If anyone knows any other games with replaceable sound files I'd love to know!

Wow, that's quite interesting, I didn't know it. Thanks a lot for the info!

Is there any other games that works this way that you guys know of? Would be really something to look up to.

Battle for Wesnoth uses Ogg Vorbis; Sacred, Sacred Underworld, and Sacred Gold (contains both Sacred and Underworld) have replacable music files if I remember correctly; Final Fantasy VII for the PC uses MIDI and SF2, which you can all replace; there is also a mod for Final Fantasy VII that switches the MIDI with I believe MP3s of OST album, which you can then replace with your own MP3s. That's just off the top of my head.

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