How to allow sound effects to play when a defined character is speaking dialogue?

[plulovi]

Hello. I've been having a bit of trouble adding sound effects.

For instance, when I have a code like this:

play sound "sound.ogg"

"Hello world"

return

Then the sound effect will work perfectly fine. However, when I have a code that looks like this:

play sound "sound.ogg"

e "Hello world"


return

The sound effect won't play at all. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks!

[isobellesophia]

Can you show the code?

For me, anything works, i did that as defined dialogue.

There might be something in your script.

[papillon]

Sound effects normally play while characters are speaking. No special code is needed to cause that.

Usually a sound failing to play means that either you have the filename wrong OR some other sound is playing which is overriding it. (Or your sound is off.)

Do you have a typing-text sound effect set up that makes a noise while dialog appears?

[isobellesophia]

I think it will obviously cause a error from the start when putting it in a wrong file, i used a sfx folder to put my sound effects there,


You should make a folder for it, and then list it like this.

Code: Select all

play sound "sfx/sound.ogg"

OR, as papillon said, you may used a file that wont play when opening that file, which is only need an mp3 or ogg file that can be played. Like a icon of blue note can be played, while the empty white file wont.

You can use Audacity, and then export it in ogg file.

[plulovi]

Ah yeah, I figured it out. It's because I have each character with a callback sound when their dialogue is typed out. But I managed to fix the problem by defining another audio channel. I just did:
init python:
renpy.music.register_channel("sfx", True)

and when I needed to use the sound:

e "insert sentence here"

play sfx "crash_sfx.ogg" noloop


Thanks for replying though! I really appreciate it. ^_^