Overlaying a track

[Kalis]

Hi all,

Small problem here. I want music in my game to be played uninterrupted over the course of the game. Even when a frame resets. To do this I set up an event in global events stating that: if the global value A = 0 then play track music uninterrupted on channel 32.
Additionally I have set the game to play tracks over frames. What happens however is when I reset a frame/level it also restarts the music and breaks the flow.

It's a simple problem and I'm sure there is a way around it. Should I use a direct X object instead?

[Phi]

Play the music and loop it uninterruptable on a particular channel. You can then stop the channel to stop the music.

To keep music playing over frames, check the 3rd tab of application properties under Sound.

[Kalis]

I've tried that already. However when I restart a frame it restarts the music.

[Stephen]

Have you tried jumping to a frame instead of restarting it?

[UltimateWalrus]

Have you tried jumping to a frame instead of restarting it?

What he said.
You can have a "jump to" frame that's just a black screen. Have a global value named "JumpTo" or something like that. Then just do Start of frame->Goto frame "JumpTo".

When you want to restart your frame, instead of doing that, just set "JumpTo" to current frame, and jump to your "jump to" frame. Make sense?

[LB]

That's really needed?? I can get music to play continuously through frame restarts and self jumps just fine.

[UltimateWalrus]

Play the music and loop it uninterruptable on a particular channel. You can then stop the channel to stop the music.

To keep music playing over frames, check the 3rd tab of application properties under Sound.

I just tried this and it also seems to work, provided that instead of restarting the frame you do a "self jump" as LB suggested. Just jump to the frame you're already on. If you want it to be general-purpose, you can click "Use a calculation" and just type "frame", so the action says "Jump to frame number frame"

[Kalis]

Thanks guys,

jump to frame sorted it all out.