How to add music(in the game)and a background at start menu.

[Ruubste]

Yeah, it's me (that noob) again. I found out how to make choices, dialogues etc. but when I try to add music I get stuck. Also, I can't even find where to put a background in the start menu. Could someone please help me?

[SakuraTommiko]

well, for the music, if you're using ren'py, put:
play music "(the name of the song).(the sound format)"
before the line where you want the music to begin. Then put:
stop music "(the name of the song).(the sound format)"
after the line where you want the music to stop.
As for sound effects, just change "music" to "sound". However, it only plays once. So if you'd like to repeat it for several times, you'll need to repeat the line to how many time you'd want it to play.
As for the picture on the main menu, that's also my question... haha! So I'm sorry if I could only help you in the music. I hope this helped you!
Ah, and don't forget to put the music file into the folder of your game. Also, the name you put in the code should be the exact one, that also goes with the format. So if you'd like it to be simpler, just rename the file. If you'd like to see what the format is, just place your mouse onto the song, and a box will appear containing the details.

Sakura Tommiko

[Ruubste]

well, for the music, if you're using ren'py, put:
play music "(the name of the song).(the sound format)"
before the line where you want the music to begin. Then put:
stop music "(the name of the song).(the sound format)"
after the line where you want the music to stop.
As for sound effects, just change "music" to "sound". However, it only plays once. So if you'd like to repeat it for several times, you'll need to repeat the line to how many time you'd want it to play.
As for the picture on the main menu, that's also my question... haha! So I'm sorry if I could only help you in the music. I hope this helped you!
Ah, and don't forget to put the music file into the folder of your game. Also, the name you put in the code should be the exact one, that also goes with the format. So if you'd like it to be simpler, just rename the file. If you'd like to see what the format is, just place your mouse onto the song, and a box will appear containing the details.

Sakura Tommiko

Thank you, actually I already figured it out a bit but can you solve another problem?
If you want to use a background you first have to put: Image (name background), in the begining of the script. What do you have to put there instead of image when you want to put music?

[Donmai]

To change the background of the menus look in your option.rpy for these lines:

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mm_root ="put the name of your image file here",
gm_root = "put the name of your image file here",

mm means "main menu" and gm means "game menu"
To play a music in the main menu look for this line in options.rpy:

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    config.main_menu_music = "put the name of your music file here"

You can do many interesting things with sound.
Put these lines in the very beginning of your main script:

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init:
    $ renpy.music.register_channel("ambient","sfx",True,tight=True)

This code is registering a sound channel named "ambient". You can use it for sound effects that you will want to play in a continuous loop (like rain, wind or a clock ticking). You can use it with

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play ambient "name of your sound effects file"

you have many commands to control sound, like fadein, fadeout, queue, noloop and so on

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/reference/Audio

[OokamiKasumi]

If you're interested in changing your Backgrounds, there's a tutorial for it in the RenPy Cookbook section of the forum.
[Tutorial] Custom Backgrounds: Save/Load/Pref/Yes-No/MainMenu