How to Add Custom Music for a Quest

[jedp15]

So, I've just finished making a quest and want to add custom background music that plays once it's done. Looking in the GECK, none of the vanilla music is listed anywhere other than the AudioMarker(s) placed around the world.

I just want to play the song once and have the game revert back to the previous music from the AudioMarker, but at a loss on how to go about this.

Wrote a preliminary script, though I don't know if I'm on the right track:

scn AerieQuestEndMusicScript

float Timer

Begin GameMode
    SetMusicState 1
    AerieAudioMarker1REF.disable
    PlayMusic AerieEndMusic
    if Timer < 360 ; a little longer than the song (about 6 minutes)
        set Timer to Timer + GetSecondsPassed
    else
        SetMusicState 0
        AerieAudioMarker1REF.enable
    endif
    
end

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[jedp15]

Figured it out. Didn't see the Audio section in the object window. Basically, to use the function "PlayMusic" on custom music, you need to create a new "Music Type."

Here's the script that ended up working:

scn AerieQuestEndMusicScript

float Timer

short DoOnce

Begin GameMode

    if DoOnce == 0
        SetMusicState 1
        AerieAudioMarker1REF.disable
        PlayMusic AerieEndMusic
        set DoOnce to 1
    elseif DoOnce == 1
        if Timer < 360
            set Timer to Timer + GetSecondsPassed
        else
            SetMusicState 0
            AerieAudioMarker1REF.enable
            StopQuest AerieQuestEndMusic
        endif
    endif

end

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If you're looking to do the same thing for a quest, you need to create a custom quest that's NOT start game enabled and put a decent delay on it (like 8 seconds), so when your main quest ends, the song won't play until at least a few seconds after. In the main quest's last stage result script, you put StartQuest (the ID of your song quest). Voila.