Modding - How to change the Main Menu music?

[APostlELitist]

As the title says - i know you can't edit the path music but is there anyway to edit the main menu music? since its not really a path music.

[Zocom7]

As of now it's impossible to change the main menu music as well as the other path music in the menus.

There's no tool that can do this. Even neither Bibber, Lauren, JonWil nor any other modder can create a music encoder for RA3 and integrate it with the RA3 Mod SDK.

[APostlELitist]

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up. xD

[Bibber]

Well, I managed to exchange for example the main menu music with the credits screen music. It might be possible to replace the tracks of the main menu music but it would result in 230 MB additional data for the mod as I don't know all the data of the PathMusicMap. That's the main problem.

[APostlELitist]

Oh that sounds interesting, I don't see how it would get that big if your just changing one music file unless its made up of multiple sound files o.o. If you are just exchanging the main menu music would that just require editing of the ShellPathMusicEvent XML file?

Edit: While I'm at it, do you guys have CNC3: Tiberium Wars? I'm wanting to extract the audio of GDI's Ion Cannon from the EnglishAudio.big file, would it be possible if you could upload this .big file so I can extract them myself?

[Bibber]

All the music tracks are put together into one big asset, the PathMusicTrack. The PathMusicMap somehow controls which music tracks belong to which event. But as I said I don't really know the file structure of that map. So we could just replace a music track in the PathMusicTrack asset. That's why it would be so big. Anyway, I didn't test replacing yet.