Play sound for in-game choice buttons?

[Amie]

Hello, I'm new here (and new to Ren'Py), I'm having so much fun with this software, but I got stuck and I'm not sure how to do something. I'd like to be able to play a sound when you select an in-game menu choice, I did find some older discussions about it but I'm still having trouble trying to make it work, is anyone able to walk me through it for the new version of Ren'Py?

[DannyGMaster]

A way is to modify the choice screen, probably located in your Project's screens.rpy file.

Around line 202, there should be something like this:

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action 

In the same line as the textbutton, you can add activate_sound "sound.ogg", it's a button style property, (search Style Properties in the documentation for more on them). It would end up like this:

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screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for i in items:
            textbutton i.caption action i.action activate_sound "select.ogg"

You can also add hover_sound "hover.ogg" if you want that too.

Hope this helps.

[Amie]

Thanks so much DannyGMaster! That's perfect, I'll try it out now, thank you!

[DannyGMaster]

Glad I helped