Have music playing constantly through main menu, settings, achievements. then BACK to main NO RESET.

JodyMitoma

Hey, I'm having a hard time with this one. First of all, WICKED forums. Thanks for ALL the answers that people have been given. I've solved a lot of problems already. Now here is one I need help with.

I've got a MAIN MENU (where play button, settings button, achievements button, etc is located - first screen seen when game is open).

Now, I've figured out how to have music play on startup, and when a user clicks on settings, or achievements, BUT, when they hit the back button to go BACK TO MAIN, the music RESTARTS. DO NOT WANT. I want the music to play fluently, constantly until the user decides to pick LEVEL 1 from the level's menu...

I've already tried making a new scene BEFORE the MAIN MENU scene, and having the music start here (named it "music start scene", and the scene only appears for 0.01 seconds), but then when the player decides to play a couple levels, and go back to the MAIN MENU, the music will not play, because the music loading scene didn't load.......

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I literally just thought of the answer to my own question as I was typing this out, but I guess I will continue for those that may be lost in the same retrospect.

When a user clicks the back button to go back to the MAIN MENU screen, simply make it so that the back button points to the "music loading screen" instead....

Have a good one, everybody. lol... Such a weird thread. My apologies.

Hopscotch

@JodyMitoma‌ , you could also have a game.Attribute with which you track whether music has been started already or not.

On the menu scene have a rule

Rule: Attribute game.MusicPlaying = False 

         Play Music

         game.MusicPlaying = True

end of rule

JodyMitoma

@Hopscotch said:
JodyMitoma‌ , you could also have a game.Attribute with which you track whether music has been started already or not.

On the menu scene have a rule

Rule: Attribute game.MusicPlaying = False 

         Play Music

         game.MusicPlaying = True

end of rule

Well I'll be damned. Thank you for that alternative. Much cleaner than what I have going on with an additional scene. Cheers!

Hopscotch

My pleasure.

Moik

Very nice code. I just implemented it too.
I made these additions to allow the user to stop the music and not have the menu navigation restart it.

---

For the Main Menu actor:

Rules
If Attribute game.MusicPlaying = False 
AND If Attribute game.MusicMuted = False
         Play Music
         Change Attribute game.MusicPlaying = True
end of rule

---

For the Options Menu Mute actor:

Rules
When Touch is Pressed
         Stop Music
         Change Attribute game.MusicMuted = True
end of rule

---

For the Options Menu Play Actor

Rules
When Touch is Pressed
         Play Music
         Change Attribute game.MusicMuted = false
         Change Attribute game.MusicPlaying = True
end of rule

A side-effect of this is that tapping the Play actor re-starts the music. (I'm going to consider that shippable and leave it)