[MERGED] Performers

It's just a collection of MP3s, for people to listen to and give me their oppinions on which ones are suitable for the game in what circumstances. 
Thank you Darth I'm glad you liked it =) 

Okay, so far all I'm hearing is that it's neat. Thank you =) 

David, do you want me to include musicians in my next AI mod? Should I try to get general approval from everyone on playlists or just put these together using my own judgement? so far I'm thinking Bach is a bit pretentious for Chirranirr, I've now given her a selection of more folksy pieces... 

Anyone who's better at sound editing: My lute music all seems to be far too quiet... any advice there? 

Thanks Robert! This is exactly why I put this up, other people always think of ways to break things that the modder never would =p
I'll see what I can do about the waiting/sleeping issues. I thought I had put in a system for it to restart if you left the building, but I guess I was wrong. I may have to go ahead and put this stuff into a quest script instead of individual scripts on each musician, which I would have to do for a request system anyway.
I've been working on an animation for a drum player. The drummer sits on the floor with his legs crossed. I spent a lot of time today trying to figure out how to make a new furniture marker and accompanying animations to use with a floor cushion, and failed miserably on every attempt. Furniture is complicated...
Oddly enough there was no pre-existing animation for drum playing, but there is an animation for fiddle playing despite the [as far as I can see]complete lack of fiddles. I wish I had one to work with. Could set up happy little bands.
Thankfully, adding dancers will be the easiest part. There are multiple animations to choose from, none of which should require any tweaking given that dancing doesn't require props.. although I could set up people to dance drunkinly while holding mugs. That would require extra work, but it would be pretty funny...
The animations for clapping and cheering can easily be borrowed from Oblivion, sound effects to go along with them is another story of course. I haven't looked into this yet, and I'm hoping that at least the sound of clapping is isolated in it's own file so i don't have to go hunting for more sound clips.

Robert:
Thanks, guess it's about time I got that one. 
I've got some pretty good ideas about how to make the music start playing again in the previously cited circumstances. They'll still stop first (as David says, that's unavoidable) but I should be able to get the music to start up again afterwords. I'm going to wait on it until this next release comes out and start a clean file, before I get too far into this complicated quest editing stuff. 
DarthSouth:
That would be pretty easy. I think I would have them require tips for song requests as well.. Maybe I'll set them up so when they earn a certain ammount, they get nicer clothes =p 

No I wasn't using any outside resources, just the animations that came in the morroblivion files. I don't know if any of those were already packaged in Morroblivion, since there are some fishing idles in there as well, but there's no drum animation. I'd rather not use someone elses work like that, especially if it wasn't originally intended for this mod. The actual making of the animations isn't the difficult part for me anyway. 

Well, yes, apparently. In the first post on this topic I said "I noticed several animation files that weren't being used." It's still there, you can scroll up and read it. 
I don't know which ones were packaged in original Morrowind or were brought in or made later, but they're here.  It's not unheard of for Bathesda to include unused or unfinished content.

There are a many that are prefixed with "kris", "kr", "kva", "MRC", and "OMG", so if those mean anything to anyone in the context of mods that might tell us where they came from. Some of them are quite silly. Maybe I should make a test mod that just has all of these attached to NPCs in a room so you can see them all.. 

There is. I believe someone else was handling AI for the fishing villages, but I could certainly set up the animation package for them to use. 

Those ones seem pretty usable as they are, some other animations in there have proved to be less so. There's a pair called anim_hugkiss_female & anim_hugkiss_male, I thought 'neat, I can add more debauchery to Desele's House of Earthly Delights' and tried to test them on a pair of npcs. The males skull swelled to twice its normal size while he held his arms out like a zombie. Watching NPCs make out was going to be creepy enough without those side effects. 
 I'm also cruelly excited about the 'scrubbing' 'scrubfloor' and 'userag' animations. Housekeepers will finally be able to do more than sweep and rake. 

Here's something curious:There's an animation in here called 'milking2', and it does appear to be an animation for someone milking a cow-like creature... are there any creatures in the morrowind world that this would be appropriate for? I cannot think of any. Maybe someone wanted to add cows.. maybe they wanted to milk sheep... 

Having the instrument music playing as replacement background music didn't seem like a good option to me, as I wanted it to be more dynamic with the sound clearly coming from the instrument. In the original scripting languange and OBSE, there is no way to actually turn off the background music, so following the lead of the silent dialogue mod I instead tell the game to switch the current background music to "5min-silence.mp3", which as the name suggests is just 5 minutes of silence. It was the best solution I could come up with, and for the most part it works pretty well. When I have the next version of this mod done waiting, sleeping, and leaving the room will cause the musicians to reset, which prompts restart of the mp3, and so will be a method of making the background music shut up again. I have, however, found an OBSE plug-in called sound commands that adds several commands, including getmusicvolume and setmusicvolume. Using this I could write the script to instead store the users current volume settings and set the music volume to zero, and then reset the music volume to the users previous setting when they are no longer in that cell or when the musician stops playing. The plug-in file would be required for this to function properly, and is free for use in any context including redistribution as part of a mod.

So, which do you all think is the better solution? 

I've included one musician with my most recent set of AI mods. Chuna, who lives at the Lucky Lockup in Balmora, plays the lute there between 4pm and midnight. He knows four songs which he'll choose from. Doing something to inturrupt him, like leaving the building, will cause him to choose a new song when he starts again. 
I'll work on adding this to more bards next week, now that it's functioning properly.  After that, I could either work on drum players, audience animation, or adding the ability to tell them to play a different song or give them tips. Maybe add some silly dialogue where you can ask them about what they're playing and they'll tell you something about it... maybe set it up so that after they've earned enough from tips they get better clothes, or are able to hire band mates to join them. woo that would be complicated fun.