Sound addons repository

Music and ambients

This article serves as a repository for people looking for custom sound addons for their Fan Missions (FMs). The article lists non-official asset addons that can be classified as sound, ambient and music. They were created by various TDM contributors, including mappers and model-makers.

Though some of the originally unofficial sounds, ambient and music assets eventually found their way into the official releases of TDM, we'll try to only list those sounds, ambients and music assets that aren't an official part of the game's base package.

Consider this article a repository of custom sounds, custom ambience and custom background music.

Sound assets created by TDM contributors

• SFX Add-on for mappers / SFX requests - a collection of sound effects for TDM by kyyrma (mind the newer download links, the older ones might be outdated)
• New Footstep sounds - a collection of replacement footstep sounds for TDM by SeriousToni
• New Blackjack Sounds - replacement blackjack sheathing/unsheathing sounds for TDM by GilGiy
• Paralytik's Big Thread of Ambient & Sound (and other things) - ambient and sound assets by Paralytik

Ambient and music assets created by TDM contributors

• Dark Ambient Music & Sounds Repository - general discussion and repository for ambients and music
• Maritime ambient loops - by Dragofer, for use on ship settings and similar
• Dragofer's general ambients - by Dragofer, for various exterior and interior settings
• Magnanimous Merry's Miscellanea - various custom assets created by Airship Ballet, including ambient music
• "The Dark Mod | Ambience and Atmospheres" - a whole album of ambient tracks for TDM by radioteque
• Gast's eerie lullabie(s) - eerie ambient tracks by Gast
• Paralytik's Big Thread of Ambient & Sound (and other things) - ambient and sound assets by Paralytik

Free or stock sound assets from external sources

• The #GameAudioGDC Bundle - Part of a commercial-level quality sound effects give-away for potential freeware/open-source game developers, by the annual GDC (Game Developers' Conference). Revealed and discussed in this thread at the TDM forums. Check the thread for people's feedback on the pack. Please note, it's a large sound pack, around 10 GB.
• Incompetech.com - Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free music website, with hundreds of varied tracks. With a bit of searching, you can find some nice atmospheric ambients that can be usable in TDM fan missions (including scarier or eerie ambients). Check the license information if you're not sure on how to credit it in your FM. A selection of MacLeod's compositions that could fit the tone and setting of The Dark Mod is available in this thread.
• Miscellaneous ambient and background music for TDM - thread created for compiling lists of various free ambients, ambient music and historical music suitable for The Dark Mod mission making.
• Taffer's sound library (hosted on ModDB.com) - A sound pack prepared for the Thief fan mission maker community, but the ambients and sound effects collection inside is perfectly suitable for making The Dark Mod missions as well. It's possible you might find something useful there.

See also

Discussions and tutorials

• Composing Ambient Tracks and Music Tracks - A collection of tutorials related to composing sound, ambience and music for TDM.
• Dark Ambient Music & Sounds Repository

Related articles

• Add-ons
• Model addons repository