Using Emphasize Audio Channels boosts other SFX channels

[SinSisters]

I have several audio channels set up with sfx as the mixer, wanting to set the "sound" channel to 1.0, "ambiance" to 0.1, etc. etc. The first line in the start script is:

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$ renpy.music.set_volume(1.0,0,"sound")
$ renpy.music.set_volume(1.0,0,"music")
$ renpy.music.set_volume(1.0,1,"music1")
$ renpy.music.set_volume(0.1,0,"ambiance")
$ renpy.music.set_volume(0.05,0,"channel1")
$ renpy.music.set_volume(0.2,0,"channel2")

And my audio emphasize looks like:

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default preferences.emphasize_audio = True
define config.emphasize_audio_channels = ["sound"]
define config.emphasize_audio_volume = 0.5

Unfortunately, as soon as any sound channel is played, the other sfx channels get boosted and stay boosted unless I lower the volume again.

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play ambiance ocean
"This works fine."
play sound knock
"I have lost all use of my eardrums."
$ renpy.music.set_volume(0.1,0,"ambiance")
"Ah, that's better."

I tested this on a fresh game with just the ambiance channel & the emphasize audio code (the emphasize_audio_volume doesn't seem to affect this) and the same problem occurs. How can I get the other SFX to stop getting boosted?

[m_from_space]

I never used this feature, but the documentation states:

- Emphasizing audio refers to a list of channels - so I guess it's not about the mixer
- When one of those listed channels is played, all other non-listed channels are reduced to config.emphasize_audio_volume (in your case 0.5)
- When none of the listed channels is played (right after they finish playing I assume), all other channels will have their volume set to 1.0

So if your channel is 0.2 at the beginning and not part of this list, then it will get raised to 0.5 and then to 1.0, not lowered.

Do you really have so many audio files playing a the same time that this feature is useful in your case? Just wondering. And if you have a situation in your game, where other channels need to get reduced for a period of time, you could also write your own function for it.

[SinSisters]

Oh, perfect, thank you. That makes a lot more sense. I generally have music + ambiance and then a sound effect, and I like this feature because the sound effect becomes easy to hear without having to blast it out loudly over the music. It'd be nice if the emphasize function returned the volumes to their previous state, but I guess there's no get_volume equivalent. Should be pretty easy to write a function for it now that I understand the problem

EDIT:

Since I only need to reduce the music volume, I ended up just changing the audio.py from:

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        if vol is not None:
            for c in all_channels:
                if c in emphasize_channels:
                    continue
                c.set_secondary_volume(vol, renpy.config.emphasize_audio_time)

to

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        if vol is not None:
            for c in all_channels:
                if c.mixer == "music":
                    c.set_secondary_volume(vol, renpy.config.emphasize_audio_time)