[SOLVED]Music Continue

[senisanti]

Hi Friends

The music stops as soon as we change labels or there is a choice, is there a way to play the music continuously and stop it only as I want.

[isobellesophia]

Hi Friends

The music stops as soon as we change labels or there is a choice, is there a way to play the music continuously and stop it only as I want.

Can you show us the code exactly? That'll much give information about your problem.

[senisanti]

I put this code before the label start

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label splashscreen:
    play music "tropicalflow.MP3"
    scene first
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 4.95
    scene first2
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 8.95
    scene black
    "Do you agree the rules?"
    menu:
        "Yes":
            return
        "No":
            $ renpy.quit()
    return

label before_main_menu:
    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("santirosa.mpg")
    call screen main_menu

I can't put the cutscene on because the music stops.

[Per K Grok]

I put this code before the label start

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label splashscreen:
    play music "tropicalflow.MP3"
    scene first
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 4.95
    scene first2
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 8.95
    scene black
    "Do you agree the rules?"
    menu:
        "Yes":
            return
        "No":
            $ renpy.quit()
    return

label before_main_menu:
    $ renpy.movie_cutscene("santirosa.mpg")
    call screen main_menu

I can't put the cutscene on because the music stops.

try

$ renpy.movie_cutscene("santirosa.mpg", stop_music=False)

[senisanti]

Doesn't worked.

with a different organization, can I manage to put everything in the same block?

After a few works more, i've found this

play movie is better than cutscene

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label splashscreen:
    play music "tropicalflow.MP3"
    play movie "santirosa.mpg"
    scene first
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 4.95
    scene first2
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 8.95
    scene black
    "Do you agree the rules?"
    menu:
        "Yes":
            call screen main_menu
        "No":
            $ renpy.quit()
    
label before_main_menu:
    call screen main_menu
    

Now i've the movie and the music tougther.
but i've already few problems:
the first image "scene first" don't apear...
and the music stop when i come to the main menu, i d'on't wan't she stop now, i want the music stop only when the game start...
how can'i ressolve this two problems?

[pyPat]

If "first2" appears that a pause between play movie and scene first would allow "first" to be displayed ?

Why a call, and not a jump label main_menu? Maybe it would work?

[isobellesophia]

Call functions is actually calling a screen, unless you'll click it or press it to continue.

While label is just a label with a normal dialogue to put on.

Main menu has a label itself as pyPat said, it will jump into the main menu label.

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label before_main_menu:
    jump main_menu
    
label main_menu:
   "Aaa."

Maybe you'll try it for a chance.

[senisanti]

No it doesn't work, if I put jump there is no main menu, after the jump I see the Aaa with a black screen and the game starts automatically.

And with a "pause" between the movie and the fist it doesn't work.

[Donmai]

The music stops as soon as we change labels or there is a choice, is there a way to play the music continuously and stop it only as I want.

I've been following this discussion and I am slightly confused about what exactly are you wanting to achieve. If the only problem is the music stopping when leaving a label, try simply playing the same music in the other label. Chances are the music won't restart, but will continue playing seamlessly until you command it to stop.
In most of my games (The Other Question is a good example), I like to have a song that starts in the splash screen label, continues playing through the main menu, and ends with a fade after the game has started. To achieve this I simply start the song normally in the splash screen. When the game reaches the main menu, Ren'Py finds out the defined "main menu music" is the same song that's already playing and just keeps playing it.

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    ## Music that is played while the user is at the main menu.

    config.main_menu_music = "bgm/yeah.OGG"

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label splashscreen:
    scene black
    show splash:
        truecenter
    with Dissolve(1.0)
    play music "bgm/yeah.OGG"
    scene black
    with Dissolve(2.0)
    return

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# The game starts here.
label start:
    
    stop music fadeout 2.0
    
    scene classroom
    "Well, professor Eileen's lecture was interesting."

What's confusing me? If I understood it correctly, you're trying to play a song and a movie at the same time. The problem is Ren'Py only accepts movies with a soundtrack, even if it's a silent soundtrack. The other thing is I can't remember seeing someone using the scene command on a splash screen. Usually we just use:

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add "image_name"

In the menu, I would use the options:

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    menu:
        "Yes":
            return #return should close the splash screen and proceed to the main menu, but I never tested it
        "No":
            $ renpy.quit() # that's fine, although quitting the program suddenly may upset the player

[senisanti]

Congratulations Donmai.

you understood very well what I wanted, my English is bad and the translator is not good. "smiley yellow"

the technique of putting the identical music on the option file and on the splashscreen works very well.
that's the main thing I wanted to do.

the code still has problems.

yes, it is possible to put a video and a music at the same time.

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 play music "tropicalflow.MP3"
    play movie "santirosa.mpg" 

with this method he plays music and video at the same time.
but it deletes one of the first two images.

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label splashscreen:
    play music "tropicalflow.MP3"
    play movie "santirosa.mpg"
    scene first
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 4.95
    scene first2
    with Dissolve(.95)
    pause 8.95
    scene black
    "Do you agree the rules?"
    menu:
        "Yes":
            call screen main_menu
        "No":
            $ renpy.quit()

label before_main_menu:
    call screen main_menu

With my whole code, I make two images appear after the video, if I put the video only one image appears, if I do not put the video both images appear.
I don't understand why and the PyPat technique, "pause" doesn't work

I would also like to prevent the players from clicking and passing the images and video because it displays the rules and right after I ask if they accept these rules, so I want to block the scrolling so that the player is forced to read.
I tried with the "block" "clickable"... and other stuff but I failed.


I don't understand with add, I have a mistake that tells me "sayer add isn't defined"

[Donmai]

Oops! My fault!
We only use "add" to show images on screens. Instead of "scene", you can simply use "show" (as in my example splash screen code).
(Silly me. Yes, the scene command works well on a splash screen. I've been using it for years... )
Probably a silly question, but have you tried inserting a pause before showing the images?
https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/othe ... enpy.pause

BTW, not a native English speaker here, also.

[senisanti]

Oops! My fault!
We only use "add" to show images on screens. Instead of "scene", you can simply use "show" (as in my example splash screen code).
(Silly me. Yes, the scene command works well on a splash screen. I've been using it for years... )
Probably a silly question, but have you tried inserting a pause before showing the images?
https://www.renpy.org/dev-doc/html/othe ... enpy.pause

BTW, not a native English speaker here, also.

Yes pyPat has proposed this idea but it doesn't work.

I''ve succedeed, pause 4.95 don't work, but pause 8.95 work fine ???

The last probleme now...
I still haven't been able to find out how to prevent the player from clicking to move the images forward, I want him to be forced to read...
I'm sure blocking the mouse click exists, I saw it somewhere but I can't find it anymore.

[senisanti]

Up!

Nobody know the soluce?

I still haven't been able to find out how to prevent the player from clicking to move the images forward, I want him to be forced to read...
I'm sure blocking the mouse click exists, I saw it somewhere but I can't find it anymore.

[Donmai]

Remember that forcing someone to do something is always a no-no...
But if you look at the documentation link I gave you you will see there is a hard pause option.
Set it to True and the mouse click user interaction will be disabled during the pause.

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$ renpy.pause(12, hard=True)

Of course, loooooong pauses will make the player believes the program crashed.

[Imperf3kt]

12 seconds is an extremely long time for a pause