T3d 1.1 Beta 3 - MainMenu Music only Plays in Mission!? - resolved by Rene

#1 I see this too. Any sound that's played in the main menu starts playing as soon as the mission begins (regardless when the sound was triggered).

#2 same here. :(

#3 Yes, I've got the same problem here. It seems that the sounds starts right after the call to SyncClock in GameCore::onClientEnterGame().

#4 The secret lies in the sound groups. In B3, the music and effects group is by default stopped and only goes to playing state when a game actually starts. This solves the annoying problem of sounds starting to play while the level is still loading rather than starting to play when the mission actually begins. However, it interferes with music in the main menu GUI as you have found :)

I was still looking for a solution here and let it be this way in B3. Best thing probably is to take the music group out of this and restrict it to just the sound effects group.

To solve the issue for you, simply do

AudioChannelMusic.play();

Also, to completely disable the play/stop cycle of the music group, take the AudioChannelMusic.play() and stop() commands out of the mission start and end functions (core/scripts/client/mission.cs).

Sorry for the annoyance.

#5 Gotcha, Rene.

new SFXProfile(theme1)
{
   filename = "art/sound/music/timeogg.ogg";
   description = "AudioMusicLoop2D";
   preload = false;
};

function MainMenuGui::onWake(%this)
{
   if (isFunction("getWebDeployment") &&
       getWebDeployment() &&
       isObject(%this-->ExitButton))
      %this-->ExitButton.setVisible(false);

//yorks	 
$maintheme1=sfxCreateSource("theme1");
AudioChannelMusic.play();// MAKE ROCKET GO NOW!
$maintheme1.play();
echo("Start Main Menu Theme");
}

function MainMenuGui::onSleep(%this)
{
//yorks
		$maintheme1.stop(2);
		echo("Stop Main Menu Theme");
}

And all is again well, in the land of mainmenu music ... :)

#6 Thanks Rene, it did the trick.

#7 Rene,

Quote:However, it interferes with music in the main menu GUI as you have found :)

I was still looking for a solution here and let it be this way in B3. Best thing probably is to take the music group out of this and restrict it to just the sound effects group.

Cannot this be solved with

function MainMenuGui::onWake(%this)
{
   ...
AudioChannelMusic.play();
   ...
}

function MainMenuGui::onSleep(%this)
{
   ...
AudioChannelMusic.stop();
   ...
}

?

Or is possible, if you want the main menu background music going on even when loading the mission, just call a stop and then a play of of AudioChannelMusic when now it calls a play to it after mission start?

#8 I preferred to simply create various SFXSource and assign them to the AudioGui profile.

mainMenuGui.gui

function MainMenuGui::onWake(%this)
{
   if (!$handleMenuMusic)
      $handleMenuMusic = sfxCreateSource(AudioGui, "art/tracks/menu1_ver2");
   
   SFXPlay($handleMenuMusic);
}

function MainMenuGui::onSleep (%this)
{
   sfxStop($handleMenuMusic);
}

loadingGui.cs

function LoadingGui::onWake(%this)
{
   if (!$handleLoadingMusic)
      $handleLoadingMusic = sfxCreateSource(AudioGui, "art/tracks/loop2");
   
   SFXPlay($handleLoadingMusic);
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function LoadingGui::onSleep(%this)
{
   ....

   sfxStop($handleLoadingMusic);
}