Tutorial: How to add your own music to the Ford Focus NA2/Gavril Vertex

Does the console even see the sounds? Maybe it doesn't, and maybe something is preventing them from playing? This update caused many weird issues with sounds so no idea.

 

I looked through your code and tested stuff and the reason seems to be because there isn't enough of a delay between creating the SFX source and playing it, so it ends up playing nothing because I guess the SFX source is not ready. So I recommend you call the "obj:createSFXSource()" functions in the onInit() function to generate the SFX sources and store them in a table beforehand and then play them using:

Code:

obj:setVolumePitch(sfx_source, volume, pitch)
obj:playSFX(sfx_source)

And before playing a new song, call this function first to stop the current music:

Code:

obj:stopSFX(sfx_source)

 

That might be why it doesn't work, it could be trying to play them before they finish loading or something

 

This is me when I look at the files of any mod that got broken in an update lol, how do people come up with the weirdest ways to exploit game bugs instead of making the mod properly, and also think it's the correct way of doing that?? When the console has so many errors that it almost crashes due to stack overflow (yes I've seen this happen in 2 mods, it's ridiculous), but they just ignore that because the mod somehow works anyway, what the heck??

 

Even your radio LUA is definitely way cleaner and more efficient than my multi-shooting cannon LUA, I need to rewrite it completely, currently it's about as bad as the Yandere Sim code lol. It was literally my first LUA code ever, and I copied a lot of it from the in-game cannon because it's almost the same thing, the difference is that mine is a controller so I couldn't use most of the original due to incompatibility.

 

The reason is because you are creating a new SFX object every time you try to play the audio and you aren't using the past created SFX object to play the audio. When you call "obj:createSFXSource()" it creates a new SFX object from the audio source and gives you a reference ID, which you use to play the audio. So if you don't want to initialize all SFX objects beforehand, just cache the ID of the SFX object the first time you play the audio and use that for playing the audio in the future and it should work.

 

Then the radio does not work as noted by the huge wall of text above.



what exactly do you mean with Caching the ID?
Also yeah it‘s probably better to not create a new source each time you switch the playing music[/QUOTE]

So when you create the SFX source the first time, store the song directory and the ID from the "obj:createSFXSource()" as a key/value pair in a table. This way, you can get the ID of the SFX source using the song directory, since thats consistent unlike the ID you get from "obj:createSFXSource()" which varies depending on how many SFX sources have been created. So the code goes something like this:

Code:

local sfx_table = {}

--Set this to song directory when you want to play a song
local play_song_dir = "ui/modules/credits/lonle.ogg"

local current_sfx_playing = nil

local function loadSong(song_dir)
    --If SFX source is not cached (has never been played), then create SFX source
    if not sfx_table[song_dir] then
        sfx_table[song_dir] = obj:createSFXSource(song_dir, "AudioDefaultLoop3D", "", 1)
        return true
    end
  
    return false
end

local function playSong(song_dir)
    --Stop current music
    if current_sfx_playing then
        obj:stopSFX(current_sfx_playing)
    end
  
    --Play new song
    local sfx_to_play = sfx_table[song_dir]
  
    obj:setVolumePitch(sfx_to_play, 1, 1)
    obj:playSFX(sfx_to_play)
  
    current_sfx_playing = sfx_to_play
end

local function nextSong()
    --set play_song_dir to next song directory
    --play_song_dir = "some song directory"
end

local need_to_create_sfx = false

local timer = 0

local function updateGFX(dt)
    if play_song_dir then
  
        --Check if we need to create SFX source
        if timer == 0 then
            need_to_create_sfx = loadSong(play_song_dir)
        end     
      
        --If needed to create SFX source
        --then start timer to delay playing song
        if need_to_create_sfx then
            timer = timer + dt
        else
            timer = 1
        end
  
        --If arbitrary amount of time passed then play song
        --hopefully SFX source loaded by now :)
        if timer >= 1 then
            playSong(play_song_dir)
            timer = 0
            play_song_dir = nil
        end
    end
end

M.nextSong = nextSong
M.updateGFX = updateGFX

 

Great to hear the code worked out for you!