2009/2/12 Kizul Emeraldfire kizulemeraldf...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Ralph Versteegen teeem...@gmail.com
wrote:
2009/2/11 Kizul Emeraldfire kizulemeraldf...@gmail.com:
It's a little difficult to describe, so instead I've uploaded a WIP of
the
game I'm working on to MediaFire, available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?njwcktiewky
(was originally attached to the e-mail, but was apparently too large.
^^'
Anyway —)
When I start up the game and go to the Options menu/map (currently the
only
working item on the menu), the music fades as it's supposed to (via the
Fade
Music Out command in NES-Specific Scripts.hss — the command ends with a
Stop
Song command), but when I go back from the Options map to the Title map,
the
music doesn't seem to start back up. Hitting the Esc key to exit the
game
makes the music suddenly audible before fading it out, again with the
Fade
Music Out command.
I think you misunderstood how setmusicvolume works, because you didn't
use FadeMusicIn anywhere. Volume changes are not specific to the
playing song, they are global (in fact, it changes the volume setting
which appears in the main menu by default) . Changing song doesn't
reset the volume.
Well, I didn't use Fade Music In because I wanted the music to just START
when you went back to the title screen — not fade in. That's why I had a
set music volume at the beginning of the Title Autorun script to put it
back at the volume I wanted. I was assuming that it was a static value from
0 to 255, with 255 being 100% volume — that's how I interpreted the command,
anyway. o.O
Oh, I didn't see that. My mistake. Yes, 255 is 100%.
The way volume is implemented is really bizarre. Originally that was
only the volume of MIDI files, but music_sdl seems to use it for all
music, but calculates the volume in different ways. I couldn't work it
out. The volume is meant to start at half, so you're meant to do
fading with setmusicvolume by fading as a percentage of the starting
volume, since the player can also adjust the volume. Obviously, this
really sucks.
I know that the player can adjust the volume — hence why I disabled and
crippled the game's 'main menu'! :D
What you've done should start by doubling the volume and
then fading down to nothing. But it doesn't seem to. I'm not sure why
not.
Hm… any chance you could give me an example of that? o.O?
If you set the volume to 255 right at the start of the game, that would be why
you don't notice the volume doubling when you latter set it to 255. If there's
no point in your game except when fading/faded out when the volume isn't 255,
then there's nothing wrong with what you've done
I meant a script like this:
start vol := get music volume
for (i, 100, 0, -10) do (
set music volume ((start vol * i) / 100)
wait
)
Volume and fading is/was so broken that James removed all builtin
support for fading a while back. It should be reimplemented when we
have the time, I think that it's a terrible thing to be missing.
I've tried moving the Set Music Volume command in the Title Autorun
script
to before the wait preceding the Play Song command, and I've tried
omitting
the 'set music volume (0)' before the 'stop song' in Fade Music Out —
neither worked. :/
Using the default OHR nightlies (fb/sdl) — Native didn't have any fade
out
at all, it just abruptly stopped the song, but when I went back to the
title, the song started up again.
Native2, on the other hand, doesn't fade the song OR even stop playing
it —
it keeps playing until I go back to the Title map, and when I exit the
game
(going to the game browser) it KEEPS playing. Of course, this MIGHT be
related to the warning saying that the RPG file was unsupported by that
version of GAME (despite it being the latest nightly of the Native2
music
backend)…
By the way, the controls are:
* Arrow keys: move the cursor up/down; change shapes on the Options
screen
* Enter/Return: confirm (only works on the 'OPTIONS' and 'BACK' menu
items)
* Esc: exits the game (only on title)
I've included all the scripts, the HSI and the RPG file in the uploaded
RAR
(it's 1.44MB). Hopefully someone can pinpoint what's wrong. \o.o/
My g_debug.txt doesn't give me anything useful, either:
OHRRPGCE wip 20090210.2535 gfx_fb/music_sdl FB0.18.6 -g -exx Win32
Playing game BLiX.rpg (BLiX!) 02-10-2009 23:50:19
OHRRPGCE wip 20090210.2535 gfx_fb/music_sdl FB0.18.6 Win32
Playing game BLiX.rpg (BLiX!) 02-10-2009 23:51:25
OHRRPGCE wip 20090210.2535 gfx_fb/music_sdl FB0.18.6 Win32
Playing game BLiX.rpg (BLiX!) 02-11-2009 00:31:57
OHRRPGCE wip 20090210.2535 gfx_fb/music_sdl FB0.18.6 Win32
Playing game BLiX.rpg (BLiX!) 02-11-2009 00:33:00
OHRRPGCE wip 20080818.2128 gfx_fb/music_native2 FB0.18.5 Win32
Playing game BLiX.rpg (BLiX!) 02-11-2009 00:46:38
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Anyway, thanks in advance for the help. :)
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