music changing with time

[bongobeat]

Is there a way to change the level music, depending of the time?

I have forest level with forest (day) ambient track, but I want that the ambient track is set to "forest night" when the time comes at 10h pm to 6h am

[Skuggasveinn]

Not fully tested
Bug I've not resolved is if the party enters the area for the first time during the night, then the cycle will not be correct until morning.
but this will hopefully get you in the right direction.

Place a counter in you map that has the name daycounter, set the value to 1
Have a timer check the following script

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GameMode.getHours = function()                -- by Jkos, converts the time to 0 - 23 hour format
   local hour = math.floor(GameMode.getTimeOfDay()/(2/24))+6 -- add 6 hours because 0.0 = 6:00
   return hour%24
end

function setMusicbyTime()
	local isday = false                 -- is true during the day, false during the night

	wtii = GameMode.getHours()	-- for debug, gets the time
	--hudPrint(""..wtii.."")		-- for debug, prints out the time
	
	if GameMode.getHours() >= 6 and GameMode.getHours() <= 22 then                    -- change this to reflect your daytime
	isday = true
	--hudPrint("its day")			-- for debug, prints out "its day" of the clock is between 6 and 22
		
	else                                        -- if its not the timeframe above will default to night
	isday = false
	--hudPrint("its night")		-- for debug, prints out "its night" if the clock is between 23 and 5
	end

	if not isday and daycounter.counter:getValue() == 0 then                      -- checks if isday is false and if the daycounter is 0
	GameMode.playStream("forest_night")                                                  -- if the checks above are OK starts playing forest_night ambient
	daycounter.counter:setValue(1)		                                                  
	
	elseif isday and daycounter.counter:getValue() == 1 then                      -- checks if isday is true and daycounter is 1
	GameMode.playStream("forest")                                                           -- if the checks above are OK starts playing forest ambient
	daycounter.counter:setValue(0) 		                                          -- failsafe so the checks above will not return true again to prevent the ambient track from resetting
		
	else
		
	end
end

[bongobeat]

thank you
---> trying!

[bongobeat]

works fine!

I have waited with the rest function, the music has changed.
I suppose this works only for the level where the script is placed? I need to copy and paste, the counter / time and the script on the other levels ?

By the way, in the same time I have go to another level, it as play the defaut music of this level (of course), but when I came back to the other level where the script is, the music was no more night_ambient, but was reseted to defaut. could this be avoided?

[bongobeat]

Another issue

the music change everywhere. It starts by playing forest day ambient, then the night ambient. This complicate things

any help?

[minmay]

Here is a simpler script that will do what you want. Just connect a timer with a very short duration (I recommend 0.001) to updateMusic():

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prevLevel = self.go.level

function updateMusic()
	local night = GameMode.getTimeOfDay() > 1.0
	
	if party.level == self.go.level then
		if (prevLevel ~= party.level) or
			(night and not isNight) or
			(isNight and not night) then
			isNight = night
			updateTrack()
		else
			isNight = night
		end
	end
	prevLevel = party.level
end

function updateTrack()
	if isNight then
		GameMode.playStream("forest_night")
	else
		GameMode.playStream("forest")
	end
end

You should be able to use it for as many levels as you want. The music will only change on the same level as the script, and it will be properly adjusted when the player first enters the level, too.

[bongobeat]

that's great! thanks