How to use AGS Part 21 (Sounds and Music) Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Adventure Game Studio (AGS) - Game Development

welcome back to the AES tutorial in this
video we're gonna talk about sounds now
we've already talked about one type of
sound and that was speech to make your
character speech using voice actors or
what have you so we're not going to talk
about that if you want to learn about
that you can look at the appropriate
tutorial video for that but what we are
going to talk about in this one is just
both sounds and music how to do both of
those so the first thing we'll talk
about is sounds now let's just say that
we have we have our room after fade-in
function here in our intro room that
we've been creating the last couple
videos let's say we want to create a
want to play a sound as soon as the
player and there's the room after the
screen is faded in we want to play a
sound and let's just say we want that
sound to be a foghorn so what the first
thing we want to do obviously is is
create our sound or find a sound or
what-have-you
from the internet or to create your own
sound that you want to use in your you
know home foley studio wherever you
happen to have that and so I happen to
have the foghorn sound that will that
will play right after the the screen is
faded in so the first thing that we need
to do is put that sound in the correct
place in AGS editor in your game so that
it so the AGS editor will be able to
find it so I'm gonna bring up Windows
Explorer here I've got a sound file here
called foghorn wave and if I play that
sound
you can hear that it's just a regular
foghorn sound so let's just say that
this is the sound that I want to play
with in the game so what I can do is
right-click on that copy now I'm gonna
go into my Sammy's quest game here I'm
actually gonna change it to view details
so we can see more more files here but
you have several different directories
within your game now if you remember in
the speeches in the speeches tutorial
about voices I told you to put the
speech sounds within the speech folder
sprites go in the sprites I have a
folder for backgrounds you may or may
not have these folders backgrounds for
example you might not have but I just
created that folder to store my
background so there are several
different folders here
well obviously sound goes from the sound
folder and it has to go there in order
for a just to be able to find it so
under your main game heading Sammy's
quest in this case you have a sound
folder go into that folder and put your
sound file now your sound file can be
any supported sound file that AGS
supports currently AGS supports wav
files
aughh files that's OGG mp3 files or vaak
files vo see in this case we have a WAV
file which is WAV so that's the one
we're gonna use now it doesn't need it
shouldn't be called foghorn dot wave
what it needs to be called similar to
what your speech files were they were
numbered that's the same way with your
sound file so I need to call this sound
one no space capitalization I don't
think matters but you need to be called
sound and then a number that number is
just you start at one and just go
forward from there
this number right here is what we're
gonna refer to this sound as in the
script so sound 1 will be referred to as
sound number 1 within the script so so
I've got a file in there my sound file
now I'll go back into AGS editor and
wherever I want to play the sound I
simply do a play sound so in this case I
want to play just after the screen is
faded in I'll put a play sound oops not
plot sound but play sound and then now
the first thing it wants is the only
thing it wants is the sound number now
and this is the number that I used for
the sound file
file name in this case sound one is
sound number one so that's all there is
to play sound 1 now when I run the game
ok you get that foghorn sound right away
as soon as the the screen fades in so
that's exactly what we want so the next
thing that I'm going to talk about now
then is ambient music the if you
remember in the little cutscene that you
saw earlier in a couple videos back
there were some music playing in the
background and any kind of background
music it's called ambient music it's
music that plays and ambiently in the
background so again this is very similar
what you'll need to do is find and find
a sound either create create a sound
file or find a MIDI file or something
like that from the internet the the file
the file extensions that AGS supports
first set for music files are
mp3 MIDI wave mod X M I T and s3 n so it
gives you a very wide range of music
files typically you're probably going to
be using MIDI or mp3 or maybe WAV files
for your music so those are the probably
the three most common dog sorry OGG
files as well so those are probably
gonna be your most common file formats
for music so in this case let me bring
up my Explorer window again and in this
case I'm gonna go I have a Freddie
Farkus MIDI file here this is the the
theme song - Freddy Farkas it's a MIDI
file that's the M idea extension so if I
play it so you hear the beginning of the
Freddy carcass frontier pharmacists
ballad
from that game from ceará so that's the
song that's the let's just say that's
the music file that I want to I want to
play so what I can do then is
right-click copy I'm gonna go into my
Sammy's quest folder and then your sound
files were in the sound folder of course
your music files are obviously going to
be in the music folder so I'll go into
music and then I'll paste that file in
Freddie Farkas mid now this time your
file name again needs to be very
specific but this time it needs to be
called music and then a number so music
one in this case music one that mid now
I can go into my my script file and AGS
editor now if I wanted to play that that
music file I can simply say play ambient
I'm sorry I play music and now once a
music number in this case the music
number one and so that's all there is to
that so then if I run my game I should
not only hear the the foghorn sound but
I should also hear the music being
played in the background okay and you
can hear both being played there so
that's exactly what we want now that
plays in the background you know it'll
the music will continue to play in the
background on top of sounds or
underneath I guess sounds that are being
played as well so so that works works
just fine now let's just say that our
music was the background music in the
game and like typical Sierra adventure
games you have background music that's
sort of looped and that is the music
starts once the music finishes it just
starts back over again the music starts
over again and it just loops that in
continuously in the background while the
players in a certain room or while the
player is playing a game by default this
play music function is gonna play once
and then stop so if we wanted that that
play music function to loop through the
music what we would need to do then is
use a function called
set music repeat and now this asks for a
repeat
that repeat parameter needs to be one if
you want the music to repeat you would
do a one like this if you did not want
the music to repeat if you turn it up
turn it on and previously and did not
want it to repeat so you wanted to turn
them the repeating of the music off you
pass in a zero so you either pass in
zero if you do not want the music to
repeat or i1 if you do want the music to
repeat so in this case I'll say one and
then you can run the game and the music
would would repeat now the the song that
I picked is a fairly long song so it
would take a while for us to listen to
the whole thing just to hear repeat but
just just take my word for it and know
that this would cause the music to
repeat once it's finished playing if I
want it to stop the music after a
certain period of time let's just say
that I want it to say after you know
tense after five seconds let's stop the
music well I could say wait let's wait
for five seconds here forty times five
is 200 game loops so wait for 200 game
loops which is five seconds and then
let's stop the music well that's just a
simple call to stop music now this
doesn't take any parameters at all
because any music that stopped that's
currently playing or cued to be played a
bit to play will stop with this function
call so so let's see how that works so
right now the music has started playing
okay and then it stopped that was that
was five seconds now wasn't five seconds
after you heard the music start but it
was five seconds after it actually
started there's some silence at the
beginning of that that MIDI file there
that that is counted for this five
seconds that was a way that we waited so
so that's how you start and stop music
so that's really the basics first for
sound and music that I wanted to cover
in this video
is fairly simple things to do but I just
wanted to cover that real very quickly
in this video just just kind of show you
how to play sounds and musics within
your game in the next video we'll go
over a little bit more advanced topics
regarding sound on the music within it
within a GS so join us then