Black Ops 3 Mod Tools | Tutorial Part 20 - Adding Music Easter Eggs

[@YoItsDillan]

I would love to see a tutorial on either round changing music, soul chests, or proper use of reflection probes/ advanced lighting. thanks, great video, keep up the good work. :)

[@angelaheart6432]

I read this Note: I forgot to mention in the video that you must put the line: scriptparsetree,scripts/zm/_zm_easteregg_song.gsc Into your zone file! ....... after two hours of trying to resolve the error, I love/hate you right now xD But thanks for the experience man ;D

[@JBird632]

Ya sorry about that, I would have added an annotation in the video, but youtube decided to remove those...

[@angelaheart6432]

No worries dude, it honestly let me understand scripting a bit better so in a way, I thank you xD

[@ViperStudiosAndy]

lmao, exact same thing happened to me. I'm glad I saw your comment or I would never have found the issue xD

[@JBird632]

Well I put it in the description, thats kinda the best I can do now :/

[@ViperStudiosAndy]

JBird632 no of course but I'm one of these people who forget to do that lol

[@DuBCraft21]

Thank you for making this tutorial JBird! it has been a bit tiring how many people ask for help with setting up a music EE script... I think I have written code for this about 6 or 7 times because people find shitty broken code on the internet, then dont know why it doesnt work, or just ask for a help with this quite often.

[@TrollGamingTV]

how do i put the line in the description into my zone folder i am confused??

[@cryoblink9340]

When I use aduacity, I only see 16 bit signed, and no option for an unsigned...

[@dylanolsen7972]

If you still haven't sorted it, find a wav converter(on the internet), use audacity to get the 48k Hz and then upload it to the wav converter and basically just swap the files back and forth until it is in wav format and it keeps the audacity settings, then just do everything else in the video, it worked for me

[@devonsfm]

16 bit signed works too, well atleast for me

[@IcyDV]

I'm getting the error, ERROR LINKING SCRIPT

[@Nathan3197]

Can you show us how to change the rounds sounds?

[@angelaheart6432]

Yeah! :)

[@Echo999]

For me when I'm testing the map the teddies are making no sound and do nothing when I interact with them

[@JBird632]

Well if there is no symbol when you walk up to the trigger that means the script is working but you didn't setup the sounds correctly. If there is a symbol for the trigger then you didn't setup the script correctly. Either way I walk through literally everything step by step, so this leads me to believe you didn't actually follow the tutorial :P

[@AtohV]

ERROR: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\call of duty black ops iii\share aw\sound\aliases\music.csv ERROR: no files for filespec: music\115.wav ERROR: no files for filespec: music\ee_trigger.wav ERROR: no files for filespec: music\ee_loop_trigger.wav doesn't make any sense to me. ive watched this video 100 times by now and it just wont work for me. ive literally followed everything 1:1 with naming my sounds the exact same. why can it not find the music folder in my sound assets

[@JBolt97]

same here

[@Z4mbie]

You figure it out?

[@AtohV]

@@Z4mbie i figured it out eventually. Unfortunately it’s been 2 years and couldn’t tell you in the slightest bit what I did to fix it. Sorry bud

[@Z4mbie]

@@AtohV You're breaking my heart I'm at this exact spot rn :(

[@shakefl]

can you explain the physics of a multi side door? what i mean is when you purchase the door from the left, the zombies spawn on the right. that's normal. however if you open the door on the right, the zombies don't spawn on the left. i have been having this problem for a while.

[@TheElectricCherry]

ERROR: Missing xmodel 'p7_zm_teddybear_sitting Do you know where I could download it? Edit: I downloaded the additional assets and it fixed it.

[@richardmurray3316]

hey jbird, would love a music box like from waw where you can choose from songs on a radio.

[@JBird632]

Sorry but I don't take requests :P I suggest you join the Black Ops 3 discord and ask in the scripting channel for help.

[@williamwhite4532]

i have checked all scripts and files 10 by now and there is no sound in game. the song wont play nor will the activation sound. plz help

[@JBird632]

Did you add the sound to the sounds folder? I didn’t provide the sounds in this tutorial. I mentioned in the video you will need your own sounds.

[@williamwhite4532]

@@JBird632 i fixed that problem. but i have a new one. sense i add the ee song. the mystery box and all wall weapons have stopped working. theres no prompt to buy and when hitting use on them nothing happens. do u have any idea what could have caused this. thanks for any and all feedback.

[@JBird632]

@@williamwhite4532 That's really strange. The only time I've seen wall weapons and what not stop working is when you add custom weapons in your own zm_levelcommon_weapons.csv file. The work around for this is to rename it to your own file name and make sure you update the 2 calls in gsc and csc that load this file to your new one.

[@williamwhite4532]

@@JBird632 i dont have any custom weapons. but i did add the elemental bows which might have something to do with it. ill change that file and get back to u. thanks

[@williamwhite4532]

@@JBird632 no that didnt work. the box and wall weapons work untell i added the ee song. u got any other ideas

[@haatis947]

not working for me did everything even added line from description. nothing happens when i shoot all the teddies. the sound is 48000 and wav too

[@JBird632]

I suggest your follow the tutorial slowly and make sure you did everything correctly. The tutorial works, you must have just missed something small.

[@awesmke]

lol maybe you found this out already but you have to interact with them not shoot them

[@angelaheart6432]

Quick question... how do I stop the music if I down or everyone downs? The song continues to play if the song is playing when everyone downs :/

[@BongRipperTrippleSniffer]

not sure if im late to the party on this one but was wondering if its possible/how can i add 2 music easter eggs? (i want 1 by teddys and 1 by commet shards)

[@sleepymoose453]

You are Amazing. Btw are you going to make a map at some point?

[@JBird632]

I have been making a map, check out my Divide mapping series ;)

[@sleepymoose453]

***** ok thanks

[@VerK0]

That lasted long lol, how's Kepler?

[@KrevelyTB]

nice vid! Do you know how to do soul chests? That would be a good one

[@CozySeeker291]

KrevelyTB Bro that's easy

[@KrevelyTB]

CozySeeker291 I don't care if it's easy or not I don't know how to do it and I'd like to know

[@JBird632]

Not to someone who doesn't know how to script

[@thegreendonut6797]

JBird632 I would love a soul chest tutorial as well!

[@CozySeeker291]

KrevelyTB I was only kidding, relax buddy.

[@TheOnlySpawn]

Do you know how to make full Easter egg quests? Also thanks for the tutorial

[@jacobh1251]

So idk if you’ll see this but I got a weird error that I literally can’t find anywhere else 😅 when linking the map I now get ********************************* UNRECOVERABLE ERROR ^1SCRIPT ERROR: Preprocessor error, no generated data for ‘scripts/zm/zm_bigboi.gsc’ :1 : (-4) ERROR: Invalid directive Linker will now terminate ******************************** It’s seems to have permanently broken my map since I went and removed all the files and code I added from the vid and it still is coming up and I can’t run the map at all 😅 idk how to fix this

[@jacobh1251]

*update* so idk what i did but i tried the tutorial on a test map and it worked fine so i clearly must have put something in the code or the map that didnt belong lol, never solved the problem but i just opened an autosave for the map and its fixed. lost some progress but saved the map lol. Thanks for the tutorial tho haha

[@Hidd3nsenses28]

hey jbird just a quick question, when i downloaded the music_ee file it opened into winrar, how do i make it open in a normal file? Thanks

[@JBird632]

Well the download is a rar file after all :/ Just extract the contents out of the rar file.

[@TimeoutMegagameplays]

UNRECOVERABLE ERROR: ^1SCRIPT ERROR: No generated data for 'scripts/zm/zm_thewall.gsc' ERR(83) scripts/zm/zm_thewall.gsc (51,36) : Compiler Internal Error : Compile error processing "using" file - file not found : script/zm/_zm_easteregg_song.gsc Linker will now terminate. I'm having this error always I compile, what it should be??? It says that it can't find the file but the file is there.

[@TimeoutMegagameplays]

Think I found the error, in the #using scripts/zm/....... in the place of scripts I put script.

[@JBird632]

Glad you figured it out :)

[@imoffendedthatyouareoffended]

lmao did the same thing

[@warmdog6440]

help sound aliases failed to load

[@benjithefox1278]

I followed every step in this video and it causes the map to crash if I try to run it.

[@benjithefox1278]

I fixed the crash problem now. But, it just acts like one of the wav files are not 48000 when I literally used Audacity to have it be 48000. And then it's just not using the wav files for the sounds.

[@benjithefox1278]

Does this have anything to do with it? ERROR: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Duty Black Ops III\sound_assets\music\scratch.wav ERROR: had invalid RIFF header ERROR: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Duty Black Ops III\sound_assets\music ing.wav ERROR: had invalid RIFF header ERROR: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Duty Black Ops III\sound_assets\music\cue.wav ERROR: had invalid RIFF header

[@benjithefox1278]

SOLVED! It turns out you actually have to use music_songname for the music and ee_trigger and ee_loop_trigger for the sound effects in order for it to work. I just thought I could name them whatever I want (Like as long as it matched), but it's only the songname of music_songname that you can do that with as long as it matches the music file name. lol

[@BarrySmoother]

What cause the crashing issue?? Mine doing it as well and shows no errors so I'm lost to what the issue is

[@benjithefox1278]

@@BarrySmoother It was a command editing issue with a script. Just gotta do it correctly. I forgot already because it had been months ago. But all I remember it was that it was just a script issue I had.

[@TrollGamingTV]

i think i need help

[@benjithefox1278]

One thing I'm confused with is, are you supposed to use the Tom's converter for any sound and music or was it just for to move it from Black Ops 1 to Black Ops 3?

[@sonny2606]

when i try to test the map it says "1ERR(83) scripts/zm/zm_first.gsc (49,37) : Compiler Internal Error : Compile error processing "using" file - file not found : scripts/zm/_zm_easteregg_song.gsc"

[@JBird632]

Sorry I mentioned in the description of the video that I forgot to mention you need to add this line to your zone file: scriptparsetree,scripts/zm/_zm_easteregg_song.gsc So in your zone_source folder there should be a file that ends with .zone, you need to add that scriptparsetree line at the bottom of that zone file in order for the game to load the script.

[@sonny2606]

@@JBird632 my bad, didn't see it haha, thanks so much boss

[@KoshYoutube]

Yes! I love you! (no homo)

[@kasparsarps8610]

can you help me, wen i pot model in side in map, i can see them in game, but cudn see in mood tool. haw to fix

[@traintalkers]

Hey do you think you could show us how to update models like you did with the electric cherry machine in zeroys map it looked SO AMAZING! Anyway thanks for this tutorial you help out a lot of people

[@JBird632]

That wasn't really me "updating" the model as it was me literally modeling electric cherry by hand...

[@traintalkers]

JBird632 oh ok nice job though

[@flareonex28]

nice 'hand' job

[@BrainBox_NoThoughts]

Hey Jbird kudos on the tutorial but I followed it and now I am getting the error before the map loads up - Error linking script 'scripts/zm/zm_mymapname.gsc' - any ideas? :(

[@JBird632]

right... I forgot to mention to add the easteregg script to your zone file... whoops

[@BrainBox_NoThoughts]

lol where do i add it?

[@JBird632]

I added a note the description: Note: I forgot to mention in the video that you must put the line: scriptparsetree,scripts/zm/_zm_easteregg_song.gsc Into your zone file!

[@BrainBox_NoThoughts]

also are you planning on making a tutorial for changing the round start and round end sounds? that would be cool :D

[@JBird632]

I've had a lot of requests for this, so I will add it to my list of tutorials to make :P

[@kungfutommy]

I'm creating a map & zombies keep getting stuck on models that I have put down, for example in the middle of the room I can go behind a model and the zombies will try and get me but won't go around it, what do I need to do to make this work?

[@JBird632]

Sounds to me like you tried to clip the model using a patch and not a brush

[@kungfutommy]

JBird632 I create a brushmodel, then to curve it round the actual models, I click patch then Simple Curve Patch, is this the correct method to use for clipping models?

[@JBird632]

No, you can't use patches to clip thing anymore unfortunately like World at War. The clip texture on patches don't affect pathing, only brushes do.

[@kungfutommy]

JBird632 so are you saying I can't curve a clip brush?

[@JBird632]

nope. just need to make a bunch of cuts to get close to what you want.

[@sporttalk6071]

this was really helpfull thanks

[@flareonex28]

My Black Ops 1 doesn't have a raw folder and I reinstalled it twice, is there another way I can get these sounds

[@JBird632]

You have to export all the assets out of the iwd files (they are basically raw files)

[@potatoboi8081]

how do you do that?

[@JBird632]

Open the iwd file like a rar file and just put the files in your raw folder.

[@JBird632]

open it with winrar

[@potatoboi8081]

it wont allow me to that's the problem...

[@komachi7166]

I cant get it to work, I followed it exactly how you have it and i have no errors when i compile my map but the sounds wont play at all. Please help if you can

[@JBird632]

Well I am 100% sure this tutorial works as many people in the community have told me so. So when you say you "followed it exactly," I have a hard time believing that :P Follow the tutorial very closely, make sure you are including the sounds in a soundalias (check your spelling on everything!), make sure the soundalias name is included in the script I provided as well as including the proper lines in the szc file. I hope this helps and good luck!

[@komachi7166]

Thanks! I will keep trying to find the problem

[@theobsidiandesert1426]

Everything has been working wonders. Being a newbie coder myself, do you know the code I can add which will stop the song just after the game ends / all players go down? Got a custom ending sound so it conflicts if the song is not over. If not thanks anyway, glad I managed to add something this good to my map.

[@commandoplays1301]

can you make a tutorial on how to make custom perks and perk bottles because the textures looks really hard

[@killerr15]

Commando Cats It is not that easy. You must script your perk.

[@commandoplays1301]

I know but a tutorial on at least making the models would be awesome I know what he uses but he makes them look so cool it would be nice if he could make a tutorial on how to make a perk look like what his perkomatic looks like

[@JBird632]

Well its just a lot of practice with making models - there are millions of videos of how to make models using Blender. The only reason my models "look so cool" is I've had a lot of practice and spend a lot of time on what I make (7 years of modeling experience).

[@commandoplays1301]

I spent a lot of time using blender I can make the model but the texturing and the bottles and the glass and all the other texture related stuff I cant do but I can do the model I have done it a lot

[@killerr15]

Commando Cats BTW. What perk are you trying to do? If it's easy enough, I will try to script it. ;p

[@LucarioZombie]

Where are these links? 9:26

[@JBird632]

Interesting, funny how no one mentioned this and its a year and a half late :P tom-crowley.co.uk/downloads/

[@LucarioZombie]

Ty.

[@LucarioZombie]

Ty!

[@XIKaMuIX]

How can i add perk reward to this ee script? With that i mean when the song gets triggered it gives you perk.

[@JBird632]

That just sounds silly to me... though if you really want to there is a function called SetPerk() but I suggest looking into the _zm_perk.gsc to learn how they give player's perks.

[@nightmare0161]

the prefab i have has no trigger

[@JBird632]

It does have a trigger, you probably just have triggers filtered out. Press F to bring up the filters window and make sure triggers are checked.

[@jwest444]

Is there a way i can just download the meteor sounds? i dont have black ops 1 on pc

[@JBird632]

Nope - I suggest you find your own sounds. I can't give out assets from games, that's called piracy lol.

[@jwest444]

lol. okay makes sense

[@ENGLISHBULLOX]

hello can you help do you say the file has to be 16bit unsigned i cannot find the option for that thanks

[@JBird632]

I am not at my pc at the moment to double check what the setting was called, but I believe it was under "other formats" or something along those lines.

[@ENGLISHBULLOX]

thanks for the reply there is an optiong for other uncompressed files but i can only find 8bit unsigned lol

[@JBird632]

Odd, that was the setting I was thinking of :/ Well give 8bit a try I guess for now.

[@ENGLISHBULLOX]

just used 16bit signed and that seems to work :) thanks for the tuts been helping a lot

[@ENGLISHBULLOX]

so the 16bit signed works but music keeps playing after death or restart so i try 8bit but get error saying needs to be 16bit lol hmmmmm

[@Ryan-sj3cb]

how come when i check link,light, and compile, it wont load the changes in my map when i play it

[@JBird632]

Is your map selected as well?

[@Ryan-sj3cb]

+JBird632 yes. it's not working still. I need help

[@-snprym1683]

I had this problem aswell , in my case I had some cars in the map that are not complete and thats what Radiant stopped from compiling. Sorry for bad english

[@benhurst980]

both the ee_loop_trigger and the ee_trigger work but the song wont play at all they just reset if the level.multipleActivations = true

[@Z4mbie]

Did you find a fix?

[@benhurst980]

@@Z4mbie I honestly don't remember sorry. it was 6 years ago

[@Z4mbie]

@@benhurst980 Okay do you think you could try to remember?

[@HarlowOfficial]

hey dude can you please make a tutorial how to add a own zombie / zombie texture or character. would be really helpfull as i cant really find somethin on youtube.

[@JBird632]

Well making your own zombie would be an extremely long process because you would have to make the model, textures, and rig which would take me like an entire month of work. Definitely too long to be a tutorial.

[@HarlowOfficial]

***** i mean just changing the skin/textures not a completely new model

[@JBird632]

Well if you find the images in ape, just open them in whatever image editing software and voila

[@HarlowOfficial]

JBird632 could you show that, how to find the files etc.?

[@JBird632]

I don't think thats worthy of a tutorial, literally just open ape search for the zombie model, look for their materials and find the images

[@jakewalter3599]

When I extract my .iwd files from blops, the meteor folder does not exist within zombie_global. Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be/which .iwd file the meteor folder is located in?

[@holidayonion]

I know the video is quite old, but JBird, when I go into my Black Ops 1 folder, I don't have everything you do. I have main, players, Redist, Soundtrack, and zone, and that's it. Do you know where I can find/download the sounds and/or would I be able to do without them?

[@JBird632]

You have to extract the sounds out of the iwd files. I made a raw folder and extracted all the iwd files there. The iwd files are located in the main folder. You can open an iwd like a rar or zip file.

[@holidayonion]

Alright, thanks man. One more question, when I compile, I am getting the error that the compiler can't find "_zm_easteregg_song.gsc," even though it's in ~usermaps\zm_mapname\scripts\zm.

[@JBird632]

did you add the file in the zone file for your map like I said in the video?

[@holidayonion]

~usermaps\zm_mapname\zone? Or ~usermaps\zm_mapname\zone_source?

[@itslogy8957]

ive exracted all the .iwd files out of the bo1 main folder but i cant seem to find meteor_affirm.wav any one know were to find it?

[@potatoboi8081]

how do I get the ee_loop_trigger.wav and ee_trigger.wav folders/sound files when I don't have black ops 1? do I have to download black ops 1 or what?!

[@JBird632]

You need bo1 for those, I cant provide raw assets.

[@potatoboi8081]

ok :( I'm downloading black ops 1 rn :/

[@potatoboi8081]

40$ :(

[@SirTeetan]

hmm, I'm not getting any sounds to play, when compiling -I'm not sure if this is new or not I get this, "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Call of Duty Black Ops III\\sound\snd_convert.exe" pc usermaps\zm_test usermaps\zm_test zone_source usermaps\zm_test english zm_test I've re-watched and re-traced your steps a few times now and I'm honestly quite stumped, if you could spare a minute to perhaps shed some light, that'd be nice :)

[@JBird632]

That line is just saying that its running the sound converter tool "snd_convert.exe" I'm not sure what point isn't working for you as it could be any number of things. But the only thing I can really say to make sure you do all the steps correctly. I would like to ask whether the triggers have hand icons or if there is nothing visible when you look at the trigger in game. If you see a hand icon then the script isn't running, but if you don't see anything when you look at the trigger in game the script is running and its more than likely a sound issue and not a script issue. Some of the more common mistakes people make: (could be stuff other than this) - forgetting to include the script in their zone file - forgetting to add the include line to their zm_mapname.gsc - not setting the correct project rate in audacity for their sound

[@SirTeetan]

@@JBird632 the only thing i did differently is not having unsigned 16bit on the audio, tho i saw another comment mentioning it worked with signed 16bit, i see no hand signs so the script is functional, just not audio playing, i wished i could provide more info, I'm just as confused as to why its not working as you may be :x

[@JBird632]

@@SirTeetan Make sure you do the exact format for the audio, not sure which comment you saw, but the audio setup is exactly what treyarch mentions in their documentation, as well as the same setup as when we had to do sound back in World at War modding.

[@SirTeetan]

@@JBird632 hmm, well guess I'm boned then, there is no unsigned 16bit, in the other formats or w/e it's called there is only unsigned 8bit :< well, thanks for the tutorial and responding regardless, I'll try to see if I can find a plugin/addon to get 16bit! :)

[@JBird632]

@@SirTeetan Apparently they removed the 16-bit unsigned format, but I tested 16-bit signed and it works as well.

[@gerar785]

hello JBird632 You can make a tutorial to put sounds in multiplayer. Thx

[@JBird632]

I could do a quick tutorial on that, sure. There really is much to show though, once you have a sound alias with the sounds setup you just use some of the things in the entity browser under the sound folder and set them to the sound in your sound alias - pretty easy.

[@-snprym1683]

Does somebody know how to make a gun be able to be picked off the ground for free? Like in Multiplayer when somebody dies.

[@Z4mbie]

Yeah

[@-snprym1683]

@@Z4mbie thanks

[@hustlerking892]

how do you make just normal easter eggs

[@JBird632]

You code them like anything else. If you know how to code in c++ learning how to code in gsc isn't too difficult. If you don't know how to code at all, then you are going to have quite a hard time learning.

[@GttiqwT]

Thank you!!

[@JeffCatNL]

is it possible to use this to copy and paste it and make this work to have 2 or 3 easter egg songs in one map?

[@JBird632]

No, you would have to edit the script heavily to allow it to work in that way.

[@xDemorn]

the triggers dont work, any sound is played, and i have watched 5 times :(

[@JBird632]

Well sorry to hear that. I am 100% sure the tutorial works - so make sure you are doing everything absolute correctly.

[@xDemorn]

yeah, i watched it so many times

[@flareonex28]

THANK YOU BOIIII

[@Darien0112]

thanks

[@AtohV]

my teddy bears say not available... havent seen a comment on this issue :\

[@JBird632]

That means the script isn’t running. Make sure you are including the script in your maps gsc and in your zone file.

[@AtohV]

@@JBird632 turns out i didnt save one of my scripts. Everything works now but i get the Sound Converter Internal Error not sure how to fix this one lol

[@chroma6536]

Thanks!

[@Swiddy]

1ERR(0) scripts/zm/zm_mapname.gsc (57,14) : syntax error, unexpected TOKEN_IDENTIFIER, expecting TOKEN_FILENAME : #using scripts

[@Swiddy]

nvm I am dummy and forgot to put \ insead of / oops

[@potatoboi8081]

it doesn't show the meteor file when I go into zombie global... help?

[@JBird632]

Some files are still in iwd files. You need to extract all the raw files out of iwds. So go to the main folder there should be a bunch of iwd files, open each with winrar and put the contents into your raw folder.

[@potatoboi8081]

ok I will try! thanks jbird!