Interested in Music?  Unreal has great music capabilities IMHO since it uses digital MOD music.  What DNF will use is in question however.  Check the UnrealED vs DukeED page for any news about confirmations of anything pertaining to music, as nothing is set in stone yet.  However it is believed the 3D Realms will use something other than digital MOD music in DNF, probably WAVE or a compressed WAVE format, and probably not mp3.  CD audio is a possibility but not probable since you can only put a limited amount of music on a CD and making it dynamic is next to impossible.   Nevertheless, 3D Realms is supposed to be leaving in the SUPPORT for CD audio and MOD music that Unreal already has, so worry not, editors!

The information we can provide you here is how to give your levels music, information about MOD music to those of you not in the know, where to get MOD music, and how to make it.

Music related Beginners Tutorials

Nope, nothing about music made it into the beginners tutorials.

Music related Advanced Tutorials

None of the music stuff made it into the beginner tutorials, heh :)  So here they are, all filed in the advanced section.

Adding Music to your Level - Just as the title says, give your level some music.  Also learn how to do cool things like dynamic music that changes on events, etc.

About MOD Music - If you aren't keen on this type of music, read up!  MOD music kicks ass 100 ways from yesterday and here is some info about what it is and where you can find some to listen to.

Possible Other Tutorials

Nothing much more to be said about music, except how to actually make this.  This isn't really that type of site, but making MOD music isn't really that hard with some of the trackers available.  So here are a couple of tutorials that may come here later on.

Creating MOD Music - How to make your own MOD music! Quite possible as I know how myself.

Creating CD Audio - The other format Unreal supports, but not many non-commercial addons would be concerned with this I would assume.  Not so probable.

User Submissions

Are you an experianced Mod Tracker or CD audio composer?  Maybe you would like to share your expertise by submitting a tutorial.  Contact nukedukem@3dportal.com and we can work something out.