Choice Menu Voice Over

[wyverngem]

I feel as if I'm missing this somwhere, but is there a way to add a voice overs to the menu choices in Renpy? Would the self-voicing talk over it? I decided that my narrator is going to have a voice, but can't seem to wrap my head around adding the files to the menu choices.

[Imperf3kt]

self voicing does read menus and choices, but I think you can just play a sound file before the menu and add a hover_sound to your options. How, I'm not sure.

[wyverngem]

So I figured out a way to do this. What I had to do was add a enumerate n to keep track of how many choices I had starting at one. I then created a menu_voice_slot string that contained the appropriate menu choice ID that I used as a variable within the screen action Play().

The game will still error out if the file doesn't exist. Is there a way to check for the file so I can add a conditional instead of getting the error? Also haven't checked to see if there's overlap in the self-voicing as it's on my brother's PC.

Here's what we're working with. I'm open for better ways to do this.

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define e = Character("Eileen")
default choice_id = 1
label start:
    scene background
    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    $ choice_id = 1
    menu:
        "Choice 1":
            "Game continues."
        "Choice 2":
            "Game continues."
        "Choice 3":
            "Game continues."
    e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"
    return

## Modified Choice screen ###############################################################
##
## This screen is used to display the in-game choices presented by the menu
## statement.

##Wyverngem's Modification Notes
## Enumertae the items we have starting at one to change the value on n. Then
## create a menu_voice_slot string that contains the appropriate menu choice ID.
## Use that menu_voice_slot as the variable in the Play() hovered action within
## the textbutton.
## 
## The game will error out if the file does not exist. Don't know how to check for
## the missing file to prevent this.
##
## Not tested for Self-voicing compatibility

screen choice(items):
    style_prefix "choice"

    vbox:
        for n, i in enumerate(items, 1):
            $ menu_voice_slot = "audio/choice" + str(choice_id) + "_" + str(n) + ".ogg"
            #$ menu_voice_slot = menu_voice[n]
            textbutton i.caption:
                action i.action
                hovered Play('voice', menu_voice_slot)