[Solved] Unable to play voice & toggling auto-mode on/off

[SethRiley]

Hello (^_^)/

I have a little introduction screen at the beginning of the story, which briefly shows the title of the story with a fade effect:

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    scene white
    with Pause(1.5)
    show storytitle with dissolve
    voice "vox/01_0.ogg"
    with Pause(3)
    scene white with dissolve
    with Pause(1)

The bit where it says 'voice "vox/01_0.ogg"' is supposed to play a voice stating the title. However, no voice is played ingame. Turns out the voice will only play if there is text accompanying it on screen, even if it's just a blank surrounded by " "'s. With the code altered to:

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    scene white
    with Pause(1.5)
    show storytitle with dissolve
    voice "vox/01_0.ogg"
    " "
    with Pause(3)
    scene white with dissolve
    with Pause(1)

the voice does play, but the screen will come to a stop until the player clicks to continue. A workaround would be to momentarily toggle auto-mode to on, so it continues, then back off again, like so:

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    toggle auto-mode on
    scene white
    with Pause(1.5)
    show storytitle with dissolve
    voice "vox/01_0.ogg"
    " "
    with Pause(3)
    scene white with dissolve
    with Pause(1)
    toggle auto-mode off

My question is, is there a code by which you can toggle auto-mode on/off from within script.rpy? Or is there perhaps a better way to play a voice during such an intro?

[Imperf3kt]

I will have to take your assumption as correct, since I have not yet tried to use voice files. So going by that, use the sound channel? It is technically a sound effect anyway.

[SethRiley]

Yeah that would be a workaround, but the voice would be treated as a sound effect. If the player would turn down the voice volume for example, it would still be heard.

I'm trying out different codes like "$ renpy.auto(False)" and "$ renpy.preferences.auto(0)" to toggle the auto-mode on/off, but this is grasping at straws really.

Have yet to figure out a way...

Edit: I've found

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$ preferences.afm_enable

but it doesn't seem to solve the problem yet.

[SethRiley]

Found it thankfully

What works is:

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    scene white
    with Pause(1.5)
    show storytitle with dissolve
    $ preferences.afm_enable = True
    voice "vox/01_0.ogg"
    " "
    $ preferences.afm_enable = False
    scene white with dissolve
    with Pause(1)

This toggles auto-mode on before the blank text during which the voice is played, and toggles it back off once it's done.