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Setting Music for Each Level

by Orion the Hunter · in Torque Game Builder · 12/11/2012 (2:46 pm) · 6 replies

Hello everyone,

I've been wondering how to set it so that music will play when the level is loaded. I've tried a giant trigger that covers the map but that screws up the collision layers and I can't hit walls or collect stuff. (It's a bug, which has been acknowledged... I think...) So, how do I tell it that if the scene graph is "level1" to play "UndergroundMusic"?

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#1
12/11/2012 (4:08 pm)
A scene is an object like almost everything else, so you can attach dynamic fields to it. Just make a field called "music" and then pull something like:

%levelObj = sceneWindow2D.getSceneObject();
alxPlay(%levelObj.music);

Of course, this assumes you have your level loaded and that you have audio description and audio profile datablocks prepared already. For information on how to do that, check the Torque 2D docs under Inteface Tutorials->Feature->Audio Tutorial.

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#2
12/12/2012 (5:45 am)
I have the audio datablocks set up correctly, so do I add the fields to the scenegraph? (I'll give it a go.)

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#3
12/12/2012 (5:53 am)
Huh... in console I get "Unable to play audio profile '' ".

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#4
12/12/2012 (6:43 am)
You mean "Unable to locate audio profile"? Because that means you didn't exec() your script file with the audio profiles in it....

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#5
12/12/2012 (11:32 am)
No, because if I write "playMusic(UndergroundMusic);" in the console I hear it play. The problem is that it isn't getting the info the right way... I deselected everything and then I added dynamic fields to the scenegraph, I think.

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#6
12/12/2012 (2:20 pm)
Ah, I fixed it. Forgot to get scene graph. D'oh!