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16th Note | Gameplay Music

A three hour project designed to add combat and ambient music to Garry's Mod gameplay, similar to Nombat. However, Nombat is rather old and the process to creating music with the addon is time consuming and discouraging for most inexperienced with LUA. This addon aims to be a better alternative.

You can find this addon on Github with its source code: https://github.com/IcyStarFrost/16thnote

Try out the addon with the GTFO ost mod for 16th Note: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3404189403

Frostpunk ost mod is also available for ambient only music: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3409035643

All settings are located in the spawnmenu within Utilities>16th Note


16th Note takes what Nombat does and improves upon it. Such as the following:

• Massively improves user experience when it comes to creating music addons
  
• Internal code is neater (imo)
  
• You are not forced to have both ambient and combat tracks in an addon. You can have only either ambient or combat if you desire. (If you deem this an improvement)
  
• 1/17/2025: You are able to disable ambient/combat music individually for music packs in game
  
• 1/21/2025: You are able to "solo" a pack where every other pack will not play except for the solo pack.
  
• Neat "Currently Playing" popup
  
• 4/16/2025: PVP now triggers combat music
  
• 5/7/2025: New lyric system inspired by Limbus Company

Because there are a plentiful amount of Nombat music packs in the workshop, it would be odd to throw away music pack options because a player would use 16th Note over Nombat so support with Nombat music packs was added.

All you have to do to utilize the support is to simply download any Nombat music pack and 16th Note will automatically integrate it into 16th Note's system.

This does NOT mean you can have both 16th Note and the actual Nombat addon installed. A conflict will occur so choose one or the other.

16th Note features a very simple method of creating ambient/combat music addons. The method boils down to simply placing .mp3 files in either an ambient or combat folder and the addon handles the rest.

For the following guide, I will be using GTFO soundtrack.

For experienced users, this is the filepath to add music to 16th note:

Note: AND means create a folder named ambient and another named combat. {UNIQUE PACK NAME} is what the spawnmenu will reflect when disabling packs.



If an addon icon is needed, use this template icon if you wish.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15x9zpDko53e7Ye2g5TJEkuGb2pc-GHCY/view?usp=sharing

I noticed someone put in the effort to isolate the icons and text in the template so I decided to provide a transparent version for those who wish to use that instead.

Transparent Version
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k7oqK3vQV270d6CtdhDswWhHi0bF6HfS/view?usp=sharing

Originally posted by Gabe Newell:

Thanks, and have fun!