Changing the default music/sound (Volume).

[ShippoK]

*Edit*
I just wanted to know if there was a code on changing the default music/sound (Volume) when you first start up the game. Like you do for the text speed and such.

I was looking at this page to find such a thing, but I couldn't
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... _Variables

I feel as it's something simple to and I just cant get my head wrapped around it either.

[SundownKid]

It's in the "Options" script, look for the menu music setting.

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config.main_menu_music = "music/menu.ogg"

[ShippoK]

It's in the "Options" script, look for the menu music setting.

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config.main_menu_music = "music/menu.ogg"

I guess I should of rephrase this better.

I want to change the 'volume' of the music/sound when starting up the game. By default its at full (I think '10'). I want to lower it.

Like for text speed, I change '0' to '30' for the right speed.

[Patrick]

Looks like this question has gone unanswered.

I was about to make a thread like this, but I'll just +1 the OP here.

Rather than pre-edit all music in the game to have lowered volume, is there a way that the default state of the music volume be something other than 100%?

Or, better yet, is there any sort of "auto-duck" in python that would allow the music volume to be reduced when a voice track is played?

(working on music / VA balance here ...)

[Showsni]

Can't you just call renpy.music.set_volume at the start?
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... _Functions
Or would you use _preferences.set_volume?
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/ref ... references

Hm. I guess I haven't really tried to use music much.

After some digging, found this thread: http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=8&t=2195

OKay, do this: in your splashscreen code, add the following:

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label splashscreen:
    python:
        if not persistent.set_volumes:
            persistent.set_volumes = True
        
            _preferences.volumes['music'] *= .75

That will start the music volume out at 75% instead of 100%. (If you don't have a splashscreen, just add this code).

If you want to dip the music volume before a voice plays, you want to use renpy.music.set_volume before and after the voice to play the music softer and then louder again. You could probably code in a function in python that would do this automatically... I guess it would be something like

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init:            
    python:
        def speaking(voiceclip): 
            renpy.music.set_volume(0.2, 0, channel="music")
            voice(voiceclip)

That'll dip the music volume and play the voice voiceclip when you use
$ speaking(voiceclip)

But I'm not sure how to build in a way to set the music back to
renpy.music.set_volume(1.0, 0, channel="music")
automatically when the voice clip finished... I thought you could use something like
while not renpy.music.get_playing(channel="voice") == None
but that just seems to crash the game... Hm.

[Patrick]

Showsni,

This is all extremely helpful.

I ran all this code and it all works, except the one you had a crash with. I also got the same crash on that last bit when trying to set a rule to reset the audio to max volume after the end of a voice clip.

If I can't define a rule, at least for some of my smaller / demo projects, I can just put the music volume changes around each voice clip and that will do. It'll make the script page bulky, but I can live with that.

Thank you!!!

[ShippoK]

Oh, I didn't expect an answer after so long!

Thanks Snowshi, this is exactly what I wanted.