Reset scene without stopping music?

micah

Is it possible to reset the scene without stopping the music? In my game when you die it just resets the scene, but I don't want to start the music over from the beginning each time. Is this possible?

firemaplegames

you can't use reset scene. unfortunately it will kill the bg music. i wish they would fix it.

what you have to do is this:

keep a global integer attribute called currentLevel.

Instead of reset scene, use a rule and change scene like this:

When game.currentLevel = 1
Change Scene to Level 1

When game.currentLevel = 2
Change Scene to Level 2

etc...

It's tedious, but it works.

Hope this helps!
Joe

micah

Awesome, this works great! Thanks.

ck

To add to this, to start music on my splash screen and keep it playing everywhere in the game, I created a global integer attribute called playMusic defaulting to a value of 0, then had the splash screen background actor spawn an invisible actor that said "if playMusic = 0, erm, play music".

On both scene navigation buttons on the splash screen, I set playMusic to 1. And, as FMG says above, instead of setting up Reset Scene on the main playing screen, I said "if playMusic = 1" Change Scene to main playing scene.

This way, the music starts when the app starts, and doesn't stop or restart until the app is quit. So far...

kx