Let the music play after the game is finished?

[Sheridan]

Is there a way to keep the music playing after the game is finished and you return to the menu? I don't want to start the piece over, since it's rather long; I just want it to continue playing after the end of the credits.

Thanks!

[saguaro]

There is no pause/resume for music that I am aware of. If you know exactly how long the music plays during the credits, you could set up the main menu to play a shortened version that picks up where the credits version leaves off after the game is beaten. You'd need a persistent variable to trigger this.

[Sheridan]

Bummer. I can't do something based on how long the credits are, since it's the same piece playing through the whole game (it's a long piece of music and a very short kinetic novel). But I think I can work something out. Thanks!

[Levrex]

Use Play function with if_changed=True, maybe?

[Sheridan]

Use Play function with if_changed=True, maybe?

I'm not sure how to do this. What I worked out so far is:

if persistent.ending == "End":
config.main_menu_music = "[music]"

Where [music] is a bit of the BGM that I've chopped off and saved as a separate file. But that only plays the music upon restarting the game, not upon returning to the menu after the end credits.

[Levrex]

Use Play function with if_changed=True, maybe?

I'm not sure how to do this. What I worked out so far is:

if persistent.ending == "End":
config.main_menu_music = "[music]"

Where [music] is a bit of the BGM that I've chopped off and saved as a separate file. But that only plays the music upon restarting the game, not upon returning to the menu after the end credits.

If it is stored in init python hide part, then of course.
Well, it's pretty understandable that you don't know, it ain't documented nowhere.

It's the same as this, just can be put into screens as an action.
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... music.play

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    on "show" action Play("music", NAMEOFYOURMUSICGOESHERE, loop=True, fadeout=0.5, if_changed=True)
    on "replace" action Play("music", NAMEOFYOURMUSICGOESHERE, loop=True, fadeout=0.5, if_changed=True)

So, what basically ye'll possibly need to do (success isn't guaranteed) is:
1) Change your main menu upon completion as read here:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... g_the_game
(The step isn't required if your main menu music is not changed, whether you complete the game or not.)
2) Put the above actions in that one main menu screen which will the player see when he completes the game.

[Sheridan]

Thank you so much! This isn't exactly what I envisioned but it's very, very close.