Scenarios can overload the InitializeAmbience callback to create their own ambience settings. For example, they can set a fixed music playlist.

>Another thing the ambient system was build for are sounds. I made (or edited) quite a number of ambience sounds that were mentioned on the sound request list: Cicadas, Birds, wolf howlings, sea waves, waterdrops, rain and lava bubbles are low hanging ambience sounds that only need implementation.. ;)

Mh right, this is even a better idea than having special music for special (=rare) situations/biomes

Oh, and could someone please finally include all those ambient sounds?
I spent some weeks in recording/editing and searching them a year ago, seems like such a waste of time now :(

I was mainly sick this week, and although I experimented with some scales from Asia, they didn't quite fit into the other tracks, so little progress has been made on the OC music. But let me use this blog-like post to show some work in progress:

This is another deep dark cavern track which is consistent in style with the other compositions posted. It is approximately 40% finished, I wrote it in June. I'll have to do some polishing and compose the second half to the track, that is intended to sound a little more peaceful. Work in progress.

Moin,

eine weitere unvollendete Komposition für den nächsten OC Soundtrack. Diese ist nicht im dürsten Stil, sondern im alten OC Stil gehalten, so wie der Haupt-Soundtrack. Er ist auch aus dieser Zeit, wurde aber nie vollendet, und soll dann in diesem Projekt auch seinen Abschluss finden. Work in Progress.

Oops, I wrote in German.

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Hey,

another unfinished composition for the next soundtrack. This one is not in a dark style like the others, but in the more peaceful style of the main soundtrack. It was written during the time I worked on the main soundtrack, but didn't make it into it, so I hope I can finish it this time and giving it a place. Work in Progress.

Hope I can find time to actually write something new this week :D

Seeing the stream yesterday, I wrote some dungeon-ish music for a dead project (can be used for OC) about a year ago. So if we want to have a temple/castle/dungeon tag, I would have some music ready for that.

I have to admit, I usually play with music turned off (but this isn't specific to OC, I do that with many games or at least turn it down to a volume that it's barely audible anymore. But I just did a testgame in Treasure Hunt with music turned on.

First of all, none of the tracks struck me as bad or in any way obtrusive. All were nice and calm. Of course, in the few action-packed moments, too calm. But in a fast-paced game like Clonk, you don't expect every little detail to be reflected by the music. So, all in all, very cool.

The ambience change in music is fine, for the most part. You could hear the smooth changes in music whenever you change from sky to tunnel background. It's also nice that tracks don't start over when returning. However, sometimes I just had the feeling that the music 'broke'. There were quite a few moments when I changed from the underground to aboveground or vice versa and the music just stopped. So one track faded out, nothing faded in. Maybe it was just at the end of the in-fading track, so no actual music came. Anyway, this was always a disappointing moment. I noticed the change in background, I expected a change in music, anticipated it, you could say, and then..fade to silence. Meh. I also got the weird feeling that the music almost always ended with such a sudden stop. It felt like I never really heard the end of a track. I just skimmed through a few tracks afterwards to check. I couldn't say if I heard the endings or not.
Also, just sometimes, when quickly changing back and forth against backgrounds (which happened once or twice when I was mining stuff and carrying it to the surface), the music changed very quickly. There was a noticeable disharmony there. But maybe it is fine to have this in a few situations. As I said, most of the time it was absolutely fine.
As to the breaks or intermissions. Yeah, those are most noticeable whenever the music suddenly kick-started back in. At that point you realised the absence of music before. And a few times in between, whenever the pause was a bit too long, I just asked myself where the music is.