Playing Music over addaction

[Fipler 0]

Hi lads, so iam currently working on a Vietnam Mission for me and my Bois and i would like to be able to play some music tracks over the addaction menu, but i dont know how for the love of God how to do it.

I have the tracks prepared in my description.ext which looks like that:

 

class CfgMusic
{
    tracks[]={};
 
    class Vietnam
    {
        name = "Vietnam";
        sound[] = {"\sound\Fortunate Son", db+0, 1.0};
    };
    class All right now
    {
        name = "All right now";
        sound[] = {"\sound\Free - All Right Now.ogg", db+0, 1.0};
    };
};

 

Iam wondering if that is allright and if yes how i make it that i can play the music over addaction.

Thx for the help in advance.

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

5 hours ago, Fipler said:

Hi lads, so iam currently working on a Vietnam Mission for me and my Bois and i would like to be able to play some music tracks over the addaction menu, but i dont know how for the love of God how to do it.

I have the tracks prepared in my description.ext which looks like that:

 

class CfgMusic
{
    tracks[]={};
 
    class Vietnam
    {
        name = "Vietnam";
        sound[] = {"\sound\Fortunate Son", db+0, 1.0};
    };
    class All right now
    {
        name = "All right now";
        sound[] = {"\sound\Free - All Right Now.ogg", db+0, 1.0};
    };
};

 

Iam wondering if that is allright and if yes how i make it that i can play the music over addaction.

Thx for the help in advance.

 

Not 100% sure but I guess filenames with spaces get the space replaced with %20, so you need to replace spaces with underscores:

sound[] = {"\sound\Free_-_All_Right_Now.ogg", db+0, 1.0};

Might give that a try.

 

Cheers

[Fipler 0]

Cheers mate, thx for the tipp didnt even knew that nut what do i have to put in the Init file to be able to play the music over the addaction menu?

 

[Melody_Mike 130]

Hey @Fipler, welcome to the forums!

I just want to be sure on what you mean here. "Addaction" lets you add an interaction option (the list you get when scrolling with the mouse wheel) for a player, when they are looking at a specific ingame object.

Here's a quick example:

this addAction [("<t color='#FFFFFF'>" + ("Play Music") + "</t>"),{playMusic "Vietnam";},"",1,true,true,"","(_target distance _this) < 5"]; 

^ Paste this into an object's init.

For details on how the syntax works, I refer you to the Bohemia Interactive Wiki:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playMusic

If you wanted to start the music another way, such as the radio commands (which you get when you press Backspace, eg when calling artillery), then I would just make a trigger in the editor, choose radio from the dropdown menu for activation type, and put-
 

playMusic "Vietnam";

In it's activation field.

Hope that answers your question! 

[Henryjs 0]

You need to use the addAction command to play music with playMusic. For example:

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this addAction ["Play Vietnam", {playMusic "Vietnam";}];
Make sure the path and format of the audio file are correct.

[Northup 18]

If it's MP:

this addAction ["Play Vietnam", {["Vietnam"] remoteExec ["playMusic", _caller];}];

I was wrong.

[pierremgi 4905]

1 hour ago, Northup said:

If it's MP:

this addAction ["Play Vietnam", {["Vietnam"] remoteExec ["playMusic", _caller];}];

😕

the addAction code is already local to the caller (GA LE). You don't need to remoteExec playMusic on caller.

[Northup 18]

On 12/22/2024 at 7:47 AM, pierremgi said:

😕

the addAction code is already local to the caller (GA LE). You don't need to remoteExec playMusic on caller.

Derp. Youre right. My bad. Thanks for the correction @pierremgi