Castle Paradox

Master K · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject: The Music of my Discontent

Plotscripting is getting fickle with me.

play song(songnumber), play song(songname), play song:songname, play song:(songname), and play song:(songnumber) do not work!

Do you know the proper commands to stop a song and play another? Also, is there a command to use a door?

Rimudora · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject:

play song (number) should work no matter what. (make sure you're using a valid song number).

play song (song:songname) only works if you've exported an HSI file for your game and included it in your script.

the command for using a door is "use door(door number)".

TMC · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:57 pm Post subject:

"stop song" stops the music. You don't have to stop the current song before playing another, it's automatic.

Try looking in the .hsi (with a text editor) if you're confused as to the actual names of the exported constants. Note that the "song:" prefix has no special meaning at all, it's just part of the name.
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Master K · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:04 am Post subject:

Nope, still refusing to play Arie_Duet. Heres the script itself:

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:30 am Post subject:

Your script looks good. The only problem I see is that the "suspend map music" command is pointless here. That only matters for stopping the music from changing when you move to a different map, and since this script all happens on one map, there is no reason to suspend map music.

Master K · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:31 am Post subject:

Heres the songlist.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:40 am Post subject:

So song 0 is blank?

What song does the map use?

How does Arie Duet sound in the music import menu in custom?

If you try changing the map music to Arie Duet in the map editor in custom, does Arie Duet play okay in game?

Master K · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:15 am Post subject:

I changed it to MS so I could read it.
Song 0 is blank.
The map uses song 14.
Arie Duet seems ok on the import menu.
Arie Duet plays good ingame.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:39 am Post subject:

Strange... Everything seems correct, but it still doesn't work.

The only other thing I can think of is that maybe one of the text boxes is stopping the music. I see that text box 2 is displayed right after the song is played. If text box 2 was configured to play your blank song 0, that could explain what is happening. Check the "Box Appearance" menu for text box 2, and make sure that Music: is set to "NONE" and not set to song 0.

Master K · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

Nope, text box is set to no music.

This is the issue of my discontent!

mswguest · Guest

What DOES happen when this script is run during the game? Does the map music simply continue playing? Does everything else happen (the textboxes, the NPC movement, etc)? There were some problems with blank BAMs being converted in the past; does it fix the problem if you import some random (non-blank) song to be song number zero?

Are there any other scripts going on? Map autorun script? On keypress script?

Master K · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:23 pm Post subject:

I don't know yet. The script won't let me run it. It says it expected top level declaration with playsong, but got a hardcoded function...

mswguest · Guest

Haha, I really hope this is the problem:

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:47 pm Post subject:

TMC · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject:

Wow, not getting an error until 5 lines later... extremely cruel! The problem was that "begin." was taken as the name of an argument, and "(6)" as the content of the script, making "play song" appear to come after the end of the script. I had forgotten that periods were allowed in identifiers; we need to disallow that. Also, HSpeak should not allow "suspend map music" as an argument name.
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