My personal idea is to make the use of the UMC Music Books in any add-ons using extea music (unless the music isn’t in the music books) instead of copying these around from add-on fo add-on. I don’t mean to force add-ons to use specific dependencies, but it isn’t ideal to have these tracks copied several times between add-ons.
I agree with most of Spannerbag’s points here. While backwards compatibil may mean its too late for this, I beleive some of Wesnoth’s generic story art is currently unused. Some if it could be moved to an add-on to save a little bit of space in mainline (e.g. landscape-coast.webp)
As for mainlining UMC music, in order not to add a lot good music that is never used anywhere I think a good methodology to choose new music for mainline is to examine the existing in each campaign and see hwo it might be improved.
Fo example, Flight of the Drakes could be very good for some WoF Battle scenarios. Dark Passage is a good alternative underground track, especially good for creating tension at the start of a scenario,when your enemy may still be unknown. This could work in some HttT scenarios with dwarves, so e cave EI scenarios, such Escape Tunel and some DiD scnearios. It could even work in shroud sncearios where you are entering an unknown yet close space, like the second scenario of AToTB. Ambuscade could be good for scnearios where you are running away from an enemy to reach a destination, oerhaps during an ambush, such as THoT’s 6th scenario. I haven’t tried most of these combinations, but I feel this a good way of choosing new music to then add the the full/default music playlists. This also makes sure the music added fits in with the game instead of just being good music that is vaguely in theme but doesn’ fit in a lot of places.
While I was playing on 0.9.7 I did realise that some older versions used to have some now removed music found in UMC Music Book 2, such as wesnoth-4. I don’t think this music fits in very well with modern Wesnoth, but it still pretty cool.
The The Deciever’s Gambit campaign for mainline which will soon replace DM also has some new music which should be added to the deafult/full music playlists as well:
Cry from Elensefar
Decoherence
Phase shift
Helios
I’m not sure if I’ve heard of the last three, but the first is definetly one of the UMC music tracks from the UMC Music Books.
I agree with most of Spannerbag’s points here. While backwards compatibil may mean its too late for this, I beleive some of Wesnoth’s generic story art is currently unused. Some if it could be moved to an add-on to save a little bit of space in mainline (e.g. landscape-coast.webp)
As for mainlining UMC music, in order not to add a lot good music that is never used anywhere I think a good methodology to choose new music for mainline is to examine the existing in each campaign and see hwo it might be improved.
Fo example, Flight of the Drakes could be very good for some WoF Battle scenarios. Dark Passage is a good alternative underground track, especially good for creating tension at the start of a scenario,when your enemy may still be unknown. This could work in some HttT scenarios with dwarves, so e cave EI scenarios, such Escape Tunel and some DiD scnearios. It could even work in shroud sncearios where you are entering an unknown yet close space, like the second scenario of AToTB. Ambuscade could be good for scnearios where you are running away from an enemy to reach a destination, oerhaps during an ambush, such as THoT’s 6th scenario. I haven’t tried most of these combinations, but I feel this a good way of choosing new music to then add the the full/default music playlists. This also makes sure the music added fits in with the game instead of just being good music that is vaguely in theme but doesn’ fit in a lot of places.
While I was playing on 0.9.7 I did realise that some older versions used to have some now removed music found in UMC Music Book 2, such as wesnoth-4. I don’t think this music fits in very well with modern Wesnoth, but it still pretty cool.
The The Deciever’s Gambit campaign for mainline which will soon replace DM also has some new music which should be added to the deafult/full music playlists as well:
Cry from Elensefar
Decoherence
Phase shift
Helios
I’m not sure if I’ve heard of the last three, but the first is definetly one of the UMC music tracks from the UMC Music Books.
Statistics: Posted by Gothyoba — 9 minutes ago