Music List - I'm confused as hell

11-12-2003, 09:08 PM

OK I feel really stupid, but I've read about 50 posts about Music and Music Lists, and nothing I try seems to work.

I saw someone say "to loop music you use the Set Music List to Music starting with song 0 function."

Well. Here's my trigger:

Event - Player types chat message containing "SetList" as an exact match
Actions - Set Music List to Orc 3 starting with song 0

Now, I read in the action configuring window that "This sets the list of music to use when the current music ends. This does not stop the currently playing music." So I wasn't expecting anything immediately. But the music never changed from the generic human themes.

Not only that, but putting in a "Stop Music" action did exactly that - stopped playing the music entirely. And "Play Music" actions after the "Stop Music" just went back to playing the damned human theme!

I saw Lord Vexorian had a decent jass function that would run a random song, but I don't need random songs I just need looping music - preferably two or three songs but I could deal with just one.

So here's the question: What the hell does the Set Music List action DO, and how can you use it?

11-12-2003, 09:36 PM	#2
Arohk	i have trigger like this you want make, event Spieler - Spieler 1(Rot) types a chat message containing "-music2" as Exakte ÃƒÅ“bereinstimmung action Stop music instantly Clear the music List play (your music) you need this trigger for every music you want 1 time

11-12-2003, 11:33 PM	#3
Ligature	But that trigger won't loop the music right?

11-13-2003, 01:43 PM	#4
Vexorian	Sounds cannot be played in map initialization, but the Music list is totally different and you need to sete it at map initialization (a.k.a change your trigger's event)

11-13-2003, 04:21 PM	#5
XVoltaireX	Yeah you musc add a wait .01 seconds before that trigger.

11-13-2003, 05:44 PM	#6
Ligature	OK, I can make single tracks loop... Do I have to write my own triggers to switch from one song to the next? And I can't for the life of me figure out what the "starting with song X" means in the Set Music List action... As far as I can tell the music list is just one song - no matter what I put in the "starting with song X" field, it always just picks the last song I set the music list to.

11-13-2003, 06:11 PM

Vexorian

To make a music list that holds more than one song you'll need JASS

just use a custom script line instead of the one that sets the music list:

Code:

Music
    Events
        Map initialization
    Conditions
    Actions
        Custom script:   call SetMapMusicRandomBJ( "Sound\\Music\\mp3Music\\OrcX1.mp3;Sound\\Music\\mp3Music\\PursuitTheme.mp3;Sound\\Music\\mp3Music\\SadMystery.mp3;Sound\\Music\\mp3Music\\Tension.mp3")

See? , the songs' paths are separated by ;

11-13-2003, 06:34 PM	#8
Ligature	Oh is that what that function does! I thought it just picked a random song from those listed and played it... Does it mean that it will choose randomly from the list each time a song ends though? Blah. I may end up just using stupid triggers to run the music afer all. But thanks for all your help - I'll try out the custom script and see if it can be bent to my will...