Please Help - Question about Music following you from frame to frame

[Mart47]

Hi,

I'm part of making a small Zelda style top down game using MMF2 and each part of the overworld is a separate frame. Seems when I add the BGM to each frame, when I walk to that frame it restarts the BGM instead of continuing. How can I make the BGM continue from one frame to the next? Also, if I want to go to a cave or dungeon, I want it to stop playing the overworld BGM and play a new one.

Thanks!

[Jeff]

In the application properties check the property for "Play sounds over frames"
On the first frame where you want the background music to start -- loop the sound and set it to 0

This will keep on looping over the frames until you get to .... the frame where you need to switch the back ground music -- Stop the old one and start looping the new one

[Mart47]

So in the frame where I want to start a new one, there is a way to stop the current BGM playing in the event editor? How about resuming back the overworld music once I exit the cave? Thanks.

[Jeff]

There are some commands to pause the music and resume the music.
I have never actually used them but those should do it.

[Danny]

Start both samples off at the beginning of your game then instantly pause them (with 'Play sounds over frames' checked as Jeff Said):
Start of Frame: Play Sample (Cave): Play Sample (Overworld): Pause Sample (Cave): Pause Sample (Overworld)

Then you can detect what is currently playing and mute it with sample detection conditions such as:

*Is Sample Playing (Cave): Pause Cave: Resume Overworld

then for the Cave level do
*Is Sample Playing (Overworld): Pause Overworld: Resume Cave

Once you have mastered the above you can start using techniques such as fade with sample volumes. Let me know how you get on with the above and I'll help you with the fading should you need it.

[Jeff]

This would make a cool little example/tutorial type of thing if your interested Danny

[Danny]

Done.

This doesn't use the 'pause' / 'resume' technique, it uses a complete 'Fade in' - 'Fade Out' technique in 2 events. Should be easy enough to understand and follow

Enjoy!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7pby6rxhzc...sound-fade.zip

[Mart47]

The problem is that when I checkmark the "play sounds over frames", whenever I go back to the original frame where I started, it plays the music again ONTOP of the music currently players so it's stacking ontop of each other. How can I fix this? Thanks.

[Danny]

Mart47 - did you download my MFA?

It shows you in there... you need to start all your game music(s) off before starting the actual game. That is only one-method, there is a ton of other methods which include starting/stopping/pausing/resuming but the above example should get your started in the right direction.