voice and string interpolation? [semi-solved]

[Jo'ogn]

I am trying to use dynamic voice overs, ideally like:

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$ mood = "fine"
voice ["I_am.ogg","%(mood)s.ogg"]
Player "I am %(mood)s." 

As there are obviously no file lists for voice I tried renpy.sound.play using channel 2 as this shall be dedicated for voice (and I don't want any of the other sound channels I use to be accidently switched off).

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$ foo = "%(mood)s.ogg"
$ renpy.music.play(("I_am.ogg",foo),loop=False,channel=2)

I did not seem to work either. (I use SHIFT-R to reload the script)
Then I tried renpy.music.play: no. I added:

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$ renpy.music.set_volume(1, channel=2)

And suddenly it did work o_0;

However after placing it in a different position of my game it stopped working again. For no apparent reason I switched to channel=3 and it worked again *duh* But it does not work anymore with the string interpolation, only when i give static filenames o_0;;;

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    $ foo = "fine.ogg"
    $ renpy.music.set_volume(1, channel=3)
    $ renpy.music.play( ("I_am.ogg",foo),loop=False,channel=3)

does only play "I_am.ogg" and not "fine.ogg", while this works:

    $ renpy.music.set_volume(1, channel=3)
    $ renpy.music.play( ("I_am.ogg","fine.ogg"),loop=False,channel=3)

Now, I am confused. There seems to be sth. going on with the channel volumes. Does voice mute channel=2 after playing?

And should the interpolation work in that context? At one time it did seem to work - but I tried so many times in such short succession that I might confuse my results now...

[PyTom]

Yes, the voice mechanism stops whatever's playing on the voice channel during each interaction. This is usually the right behavior, as you want (say) a thought to stop the currently playing voice when the user clicks ahead.

You can use the voice function to play computed voice. For example, you can do:

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     $ voice(["I_am.ogg", mood + ".ogg"])

Note that automatic interpolation doesn't work here, only in say and menu statements.

[Jo'ogn]

voice() doesn't seem to play lists of files.

[yummy]

After reading a little the documentation about the voice() function, it seems it only applies to one file.
So, no it does not play lists of files.

[Gau_Veldt]

Yes, the voice mechanism stops whatever's playing on the voice channel during each interaction. This is usually the right behavior, as you want (say) a thought to stop the currently playing voice when the user clicks ahead.

You can use the voice function to play computed voice. For example, you can do:

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     $ voice(["I_am.ogg", mood + ".ogg"])

Note that automatic interpolation doesn't work here, only in say and menu statements.

What about Python's % operator?

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$ voice(["I_am.ogg", "%s.ogg" % (mood)])

[PyTom]

The use of the python string interpolation operator is allowed anywhere python is.