Radio "THING" playing music?

[Hidden Hands]

I have a THING which is a radio. It stands on the side and I want it to be playing music. I want this music ONLY resonating from the THING on a loop. How can I achieve this please? Do I do the same A_PLAYSOUND code in the decorate?

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ACTOR Radio 298 
{
//$Category Decoration
//$Title Radio
//$Sprite RDIOA0
  Scale 0.4
  Radius 20
  Height 14
  ProjectilePassHeight -16
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    RDIO A -1 A_PlaySoundEx ("RadioRap/Loop", "SoundSlot5", 1, -1)
    Stop
  }
}

Here's my code, but it don't work.

Updated the code to this:

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ACTOR Radio 298 
{
//$Category Decoration
//$Title Radio
//$Sprite RDIOA0
  Scale 0.4
  Radius 20
  Height 14
  ProjectilePassHeight -16
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    RDIO A 5 NoDelay A_PlaySoundEx ("RadioRap/Loop", "SoundSlot5", 1, -1)
	RDIO A 5
    Loop
  }
}

Now it works fine, but the volume of the music is too loud. How can I fix this.

Thanks in advance.

[ramon.dexter]

A_playsoundex() is deprecated, use a_playsound() instead.

[Graf Zahl]

Like ramon.dexter said, A_PlaySoundEx is deprecated. Use A_PlaySound which does have a volume argument.

[Hidden Hands]

Ah I see. OK. So

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RDIO A 5 NoDelay A_PlaySound ("RadioRap/Loop", "SoundSlot5", 1, -1 "volume", 0.7)

Something like this will work better?

EDIT: Well I tried this version but it didn't work. I know I'm putting that volume code in wrong or something.

[Graf Zahl]

Did you even read the Wiki?

[Enjay]

I think that we can do better than it just being a dumb thing sitting playing a sound forever...

RadioGaGa.pk3

But, yeah, the wiki helps - a lot. [wiki]A_PlaySound[/wiki]

BTW, if you only want the radio to be heard when you are quite close to it, change ATTN_NORM to ATTN_STATIC in the DECOARATE code.

[Hidden Hands]

I think that we can do better than it just being a dumb thing sitting playing a sound forever...

RadioGaGa.pk3

But, yeah, the wiki helps - a lot. [wiki]A_PlaySound[/wiki]

BTW, if you only want the radio to be heard when you are quite close to it, change ATTN_NORM to ATTN_STATIC in the DECOARATE code.

What a beautiful, beautiful code. It works perfectly. Only thing I'm not understanding with this is your code says its a switchable thing. I assumed this meant you could turn it on or off by interacting with it. But it seems it can't be interacted with. Am I missing something? Either way it works perfect volume wise and everything else. Thank you so much for this.

[Graf Zahl]

It can be switched by using Thing_Activate and Thing_Deactivate action specials. The means to call them have yet to be implemented

[Enjay]

Did you try the switch in the map? It turns the radio off and on.

Inheriting from "SwitchableDecoration" allows the thing to be activated/deactivated via scripts and/or appropriate line defs. I used a script (visible in the scripts lump for the level).

[Hidden Hands]

Did you try the switch in the map? It turns the radio off and on.

Inheriting from "SwitchableDecoration" allows the thing to be activated/deactivated via scripts and/or appropriate line defs. I used a script (visible in the scripts lump for the level).

Ahh... I forgot to add that in. Thank you!