UserFunction; PickRandomMusicTrackRule - HWRM/KarosGraveyard GitHub Wiki

PickRandomMusicTrackRule()

Description

Randomly selects a track from a playlist (in progress).

Example

Rule_Add("PickRandomMusicTrackRule")

Arguments

None.

Instructions

Must be placed in a gamerules file.
To change to custom music, update the playlist table file names and update the lengthTable with the track lengths in seconds. Also, you can optionally have a plain text track name [to do...].

Place battle track .fda's into the directory "data/sound/music/<your music collection name>/battle/".
Place ambient track .fda's into the directory "data/sound/music/<your music collection name>/ambient/".

Settings

ambientIDX: the starting index for the ambient tracks.
battleIDX: the starting index for the battle tracks.
score_flag: if this is a multitrack playlist.
track_count: the number of tracks in the playlist.
music_path: the path to the music files in the HW2 directory.
musicTable:

path: the filename of the .fda file.
length: the track length in seconds.
name: plain text name (example: "adagio for strings").

To do

• add support for mp3s (maybe)
• add support for options
• add support for selecting specific track
• add play controls

Playlist Declaration (place this in a file data:scripts/scar/playlist.lua or similar and update the entry in the function declaration

ambientIDX=0
battleIDX=2
score_flag=1
track_count= 4
music_path = "Data:sound/music/musicpath/"
musicTable =
{
    {path="ambient01", length=181, name="track 01 name"},
    {path="ambient02", length=209, name="track 02 name"},
    {path="battle01", length=254, name="track 03 name"},
    {path="battle02", length=159, name="track 04 name"},
    {path="", length=0, name=""}, 
} 

you can have multiple playlists and select them by changing the dofilepath("data:scripts/scar/playlist.lua") to point to a different playlist

place this in your gamerules or level file (prefereably gamerules)

function declaration

--=============================================================================
function PickRandomMusicTrackRule()
    local randNum = 0
    local musicDir = ""
    mode = 0
    dofilepath("data:scripts/scar/playlist.lua")
    if(score_flag) then
        if (mode == 0) then
            tracks=track_count
            randNum = random(tracks)
            if (randNum < battleIDX) then
                musicDir = "ambient/"
            else
                musicDir = "battle/"
            end
        elseif (mode == 1) then
            tracks=battleIDX
            randNum = random(tracks)
            musicDir = "ambient/"
        elseif (mode == 2) then
            tracks=battleIDX-track_count
            randNum = random(tracks)
            musicDir = "battle/"
        end
       
        local track_length = musicTable[randNum].length
        local track_path = musicTable[randNum].path
        local track_name = musicTable[randNum].name
        Sound_MusicPlay(music_path .. musicDir .. track_path)
        print([Level music (](/HWRM/KarosGraveyard/wiki/Level-music-() .. randNum .. [): "](/HWRM/KarosGraveyard/wiki/):-") .. track_name .. ["](/HWRM/KarosGraveyard/wiki/"))
        Rule_AddInterval("PickRandomMusicTrackRule", track_length)
        Rule_Remove("PickRandomMusicTrackRule")
    else
        local track_length = musicTable[1].length
        local track_path = musicTable[1].path
        local track_name = musicTable[1].name
        Sound_MusicPlay(music_path .. musicDir .. track_path)
    end
end

Authors

--EvilleJedi --Mikali

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