Less Constant Music

Less Constant Music

Reduces the incidence of background music from 100% to 25%.

• []Fixed a bug that resulted in music/silence trending more towards a 50/50 distribution.

  []Finally sorted out the last (known) instances of music continuing to play.

  v1. 03: Added a couple of locations that had been missed in prior versions.

  v1. 02N: The "nuclear option" update.

  Thanks to new functions in Johnny Guitar NVSE, things now more reliably function as intended.  Users may or may not have noticed, but there were plenty of instances where music would still more or less constantly play, in spite of everything done to prevent it.  This was due to thoroughly undocumented (and still somewhat mysterious) limitations and quirks with how music works in the game.  Fortunately, functions made available in the latest (as of 2019-09-10) version of Johnny Guitar NVSE permit me to circumvent such considerations, so now music will more reliably adhere to the intended result.

  Limitation: A lot of music in the game loops indefinitely, so once such music gets going, nothing will stop it outside of changing location.  The option existed to stop the music instantly -- as in from 100% volume to 0% volume with no transition -- but the goal of this mod has always been to achieve its end result while taking advantage of the game's built-in music fade-in / fade-out engine.  It's a small price to pay for the transparency that is achieved on the whole.

  As a bonus for being able to use this new method, the actual ratio of music-to-silence can now be adjusted using the following syntax in the console:

  SetGlobalVariable LCMOdds 25

  Change "25" to a number from 0 to 100; the number represents the percentage of time music will be allowed to play.  Results are not instantaneous.

  v1. 1:

  []Major overhaul of interiors to account for the undocumented state of Media Set.  A few interiors were still playing music constantly.

  []Cycle timer will now restart when loading a game.

  [*]Exception made for Nipton's music since it's a critical mood setter.