NPC Car Stereos

Description

Ever notice how suspiciously quiet the traffic is in Night City? This mod fixes that. NPC Car Stereos uses Audioware to assign spatial audio emitters to nearby vehicles, making it sound like the cars around you are actually playing music.

How it works

The mod periodically scans for vehicles within a configurable range and randomly assigns audio emitters to them. Each vehicle gets a random track from your audio pool, starting at a random point in the song so it sounds like it was already playing before you got close. Audio is fully spatialized it gets louder as you approach, quieter as you move away, and is muffled by walls and geometry if occlusion is enabled.

District-based music

You can assign different music pools to different districts of Night City. Toggle on any district and the mod will pull from that district's track pool when you're in that area. Toggle it off and vehicles in that district play your default track pool instead. Badlands, North Badlands, and South Badlands all share a single toggle and track pool.

Notes:

No audio is included with this mod. You provide your own MP3 files and register them in an Audioware manifest. The mod automatically detects how many tracks you've added per district and picks randomly from the full pool so you can add or remove tracks from any district without touching any scripts.

If you want a full set of vanilla radio stations, there are optional audio packs in the Files page, and ImperiousGaunt has made an additional set of addon files with a more extreme muffling effect (sounds awesome!)

Muffled Audio Addon pack

Also, this mod does not presently hook into RadioExt or the Vanilla radio system, Audioware (which this is built on) is a separate audio engine that runs alongside vanilla. I'm working on adding the functionality to a future version (because that would be awesome). But for now, if you want your custom radio station playlist, you'll have to copy the mp3s over to this mod's folder structure and register them in the manifest. Audioware Manifest Builder is a tool I made to help speed this process up. Aprovecho, chooms! 

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Installation instructions

Install using vortex, and navigate to the mod folder /r6/audioware/ppnc_car_audio_emitters to add your tracks.  Optional: Audioware Manifest Builder to help speed up creating larger playlists.

Mod SHOULD create sub folders for you, but incase it doesn't. they should look like this within /r6/audioware/ppnc_car_audi