Hi all, I hope everyone is doing okay.
I just recently discovered GamerGuru and I really like it. So I started a simple WW2 FPS shooter project .
I ran into a problem however. I watched many tutorials and searched for threads on this forum and followed every step, but I can't get the music loop indefinitely.
I have a proper trigger zone with musicinzone.lua script, pointed to the audio files in OGG format. Each audio file is around 1 minute 30 second long. Some background battle sound and upbeat battle music, not important.
Both triggers are on top of each other in the player start zone. The music and sound triggers and plays, but only 1x or 2x, no looping. I did not make any changes to the musicinzone.lua script, so it is the default. I'm very new to scripting. But according to the tutorials, I did everything correctly.
I am out of ideas and help would be appriecated.
Thank you

musicinzone.lua should work at least it does for me.
If you want the same music to play right throughout the level try an ambience zone.

Thank you for the quick response, I will try the Ambience zone instead and see if that helps.

Ok, so I tried again with the musicinzone script and it works. I stuck around in game longer, after the music stops. However, the problem is that when the song ends, it doesn't start again right away. Almost seems like that the length of the pause between the end and the music starting again is the length of the song. I am not sure if there is some command in the script file that would just start looping the track right after it ends, without that long pause.

Its probably because there is to much of a delay at the end of the track that needs snipping off in a sound program.
Then it will start again instantly.

Hmmmm. I don't think that would cause an almost 2 minute pause. Here is the song:

There is nothing attached ?
Can you zip it up and attach it ..

Yessir, attached is the picture zipped.

Well it looks ok so no idea why really ?
I use loops all the time with musicinzone.lua and even cut them so they are as seameless as possible so you do not even notice a break. What format are you saving them as .. I use .wav

I use them in .OGG. I will give a try in .wav

It works with .wav!
Now I just have to figure out why the sound is fixated to where the trigger zone is. I mean if I turn around, the surround seem to be on, hearing the music in left or right ear as I turn in 360 degrees.

Thats why i said use an ambiance zone .. it wont be fixed.

I think it has to do with converting .ogg to .wav
I used ambiance zone but got the same surround result. I will have to start with the original .mp3 file, converting it to .wav mono.

You want stereo WAV for music, mono WAV files will be treated as positional sounds.

You should really use the music system for music though. Look at music.lua to see how it works.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220877#msg2617569

You may find that interesting.

That's very informative AmenMoses, thanks.