Reducing music volume when playing video ?

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Ertlov

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Posted: 15th May 2016 12:06 Edited at: 15th May 2016 12:07

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I am pretty sure I am doing it wrong, that´s why I want to ask the crowd.

The goal is to reduce the background music (I use the music.lua container with the playtrack lua scripts for the soundtrack) to 25% when a video is playing.

As my LUA days were 7 years ago, I thought this here should work:

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-- LUA Script - precede every function and global member with lowercase name of script + '_main'
-- Player Enters Story Zone

function storyinzone_init(e)
end

function storyinzone_main(e)
 if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
music_set_volume(25,100) 
PlaySound(e,0)
PlayVideo(e,1)
Destroy(e)
ActivateIfUsed(e)
music_set_volume(100,100)
 end
end

Well. It doesn´t. The music volume level stays at full 100% throughout the video.

Can anyone point out WHAT I am doing wrong?

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Posted: 15th May 2016 13:34

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@ Ertlov
Can't test now, but perhaps you are calling "Destroy(e)" before to "music_set_volume(100,100)".

Try to call "Destroy(e)" the last.

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-- LUA Script - precede every function and global member with lowercase name of script + '_main'
-- Player Enters Story Zone
 
function storyinzone_init(e)
end
 
function storyinzone_main(e)
 if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
music_set_volume(25,100) 
PlaySound(e,0)
PlayVideo(e,1)
ActivateIfUsed(e)
music_set_volume(100,100)
Destroy(e)
 end
end

hth

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Posted: 15th May 2016 14:15

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I tried that already, no effekt. If I put only the reduction in, it triggers AFTER the video is played, no matter in which line I call it.

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Posted: 15th May 2016 18:12

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perhaps these are better suited to your needs?

Quote: "function SetGameMusicVolume(v)
function SetGameSoundVolume(v)"

i havent personally used the music commands so can't really say for sure

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Posted: 15th May 2016 18:49

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How would that suit into the story script ?!

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Posted: 15th May 2016 19:05

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maybe something like this ...

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-- LUA Script - precede every function and global member with lowercase name of script + '_main'
-- Player Enters Story Zone
  
function storyinzone_init(e)
end
  
function storyinzone_main(e)
 if g_Entity[e]['plrinzone']==1 then
	SetGameMusicVolume(25,100) 
	PlaySound(e,0)
	PlayVideo(e,1)
	ActivateIfUsed(e)
	Destroy(e)
else
	SetGameMusicVolume(100,100)
 end
end

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Posted: 15th May 2016 19:12

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music_set_volume(100,100) works fine as long as you use the music container, but not in this case.

SetGameMusicVolume doesnt do anything here on my end.

And the else causes all my Storyzones (many,many,many!!!) to constantly fire the 100 back, because i am not in them

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Posted: 15th May 2016 19:49

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Ha, found a creative solution, but had two use 2 scripts

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