Bard Instrumentals Only - Sing Upon Request

Tired of hearing the same 3 songs over, and over, and over again?  OK, a whopping FOUR if you've completed the main quest.

They annoyed the crap out of me, so I fixed it, and thought others might find it useful.  This mod changes a single line of the vanilla bard script so they will only play instrumentals, unless a song with singing is specifically requested.  This does not mess with dialogue, weddings, quests, AI packages, or anything else (details below.) and is a single loose file (. PEX) so there are no ESPs.

This does not add a gag to the bards like the pictures show, I just thought that would make a funny image :)

There are a couple mods that do this, but they don't do it cleanly.  They either mute the sound/voice files, so the bard stands there going through the motions silently, or they modify the scripts in such a way that some bugs and odd behaviors are introduced (not judging, just saying.)

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

In the BardSongsScript that all bards use, there is a function called GetRandomSong() that is executed when the Bard hits the sandbox marker for playing a song.  Here is what I changed: Original code (songs 1, 2, 3 and 10 are the vocal songs)

• []BardSongToPlay = Utility. RandomInt(2,10) [/]

• []BardSongToPlay = Utility. RandomInt(4,9)[/]

INSTALLATION:

lilrosaleen pointed out (thank you!) that MO will warn you that it overwrites files from USKP.  This is correct, as it is a loose . PEX script file.  However, there is now a version available in the main files that includes USKP code up to 2. 0. 6 so it is fully compatible.  The USKP changes to the Bard script are minor cleanup and bugfixes, and I will keep this up-to-date if/when more USKP fixes are added to that script.