Oolite Bulletins

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:40 am

And now I'm just having crazy ideas like having an options setup in F4 where you could toggle between the orchestral stuff and other music sets....

Waaaaay beyond my skillset.

I really need to try out HyperRadio, that might already be the thing.

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:37 am

What I'd love to do is be able to have multiple variations for each event, but I don't know if that's possible.

worldScripts.Lib_Music._addEventMusic({
		aegis:{
			enter:[
				{snd:"lib_orch_aegis_enter03_0.ogg",dur:98},
				{snd:"lib_orch_aegis_enter03_1.ogg",dur:100},
				{snd:"lib_orch_aegis_enter03_3.ogg",dur:35}// in case of this event (entering aegis) one of these sound files is played
			]
		},
		...
	},
	a
);
worldScripts.Lib_Music._toggleGroup(a); // Turn them on

worldScripts.Lib_Music._addChannel({name:"fight",sounds:[
	{snd:"lib_orch_radio_fight05_0.ogg",dur:91},
	{snd:"lib_orch_radio_fight05_1.ogg",dur:55},
	{snd:"lib_orch_radio_fight05_2.ogg",dur:94} // same here: for fighting situations these are played in a random order with some random pause in between
]});

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:41 pm

So it sounds like HyperRadio is effectively deprecated - I'm guessing it's more like a hammer than a scalpel?

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:39 pm

Great!

Caveat, "I have no idea what any of that means," but I'm sure I'll be able to trial and error my way through it.

tsoj wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:24 pm

If you're totally new to programming

tsoj wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:46 am

For all the possible events you can find a list here.
Important to note may be, that for each event, only one song is played, so for example, only when the alert changes to red, a new song will be played. After that, even if the alert stays red, you have to rely on the _addChannel functionality, which basically behaves like a radio.

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:53 pm

So from that it looks like the "generic" media element plays both in space and in stations. I was hoping I could keep the space music separate, since I plan to make that music very specifically ambient/environmental/creepy, but that doesn't really fit for being on station. Unless you want Oolite to turn into a horror game.

tsoj wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:16 pm

Yes, as far as I can see, this is currently not possible. However, I think this could be changed quite easily, so that you not only have the radio channels "generic" and "fight", but also "docked". Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the Library OXP is currently maintained, so I would create a new version with the necessary changes myself, that I can upload sometime this weekend.

arquebus wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:23 pm

The orchestral oxp has something separated out for "Rock Hermit" which apparently is a sufficiently specific station name. So perhaps there are generic station names that I can use? The wiki page says you need to have the name of the station to play music specific to it rather than generic, and I was just thinking about the multiple galaxy maps and reeling in horror....

stationSounds:[
	{snd:"musicForStations01.ogg",dur:180},
	{snd:"musicForStations02.ogg",dur:234},
	{snd:"musicForStations03.ogg",dur:67}
	...
]

var shipKeys = Ship.keys();
for(let i in shipKeys){
	var shipdata = Ship.shipDataForKey(shipKeys[i]);
	// here we could also check if this is actually a station or not by looking at  'shipdata.roles' for the word "station" or "carrier"
	// but as we can just dock at stations anyway, it will "only" waste some memory
	
	// so we basically add a channel for each ship. which means that these sounds will be played whenever we dock at any station
	// 'shipdata.name' is the property that Lib_Music looks at to decide where we docked
	worldScripts.Lib_Music._addChannel({name: shipdata.name, stationSounds});
}