Doom 2 TITLEMAP, how to change music

[bucketofgibs]

I'll try to keep this brief and I'm sure I'm missing something very simple but here goes.

 

I am able to change my level music by going into slade, import my track, rename it to let's say map01's "D_RUNNIN"

 

Works just fine. 

 

However, I want to accompany my wad with a fancy custom title screen and the same trick doesn't work.

 

A made a new map called TITLEMAP, set my player 1 start. Nothing fancy about the title map level, just a basic scene. I import the song I want in slade and rename it as "D_DM2TTL" as is the title screens song name or whatever and no luck. I tried using a track from one of my levels where the song works and still no luck. Can hear sound effects but for the life of me no music. Help? Please?

[Doom-X-Machina]

What format are you using? Vanilla? UDMF?

I have no idea how to do it in vanilla but in UDMF you can do it from an ACS like this:

#include "zcommon.acs"

Script 1 Enter
{
	SetMusic ("YOURMUSICFILENAME", 1);		//MUSIC
}

 

[Shepardus]

You can define the map in a MAPINFO lump and set the music through that. Relevant ZDoom wiki pages:

https://zdoom.org/wiki/MAPINFO

https://zdoom.org/wiki/MAPINFO/Map_definition

 

There's a lot of properties documented on the wiki pages, most of which won't be relevant to you, so I'd recommend looking at examples to see how the MAPINFO is formatted.

[Kappes Buur]

I prefer to use a script for a TITLEMAP.

It gives better control over the items you want to include.

See the example.