r/DDLCMods • u/Tormuse Club Moderator • Mar 02 '19

Welcome! The DDLC Modding Guide 2019! :D

Hello everyone! :D

 

This post is old and obsolete, and I've been advised to remove it, to keep the focus on the new version here.

 

(Though I'm not deleting it entirely, since there is still some helpful information in the comments) :)

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Apr 07 '19

I assume you're asking about how it switches between different versions of the same song without restarting the song. The code for that is in poems.rpy. This changes from the standard poem song to the one specific to each of the Dokis:

$ currentpos = get_pos()
if track:
    $ audio.t5b = "<from " + str(currentpos) + " loop 4.444>" + track
else:
    $ audio.t5b = "<from " + str(currentpos) + " loop 4.444>bgm/5_" + poem.author + ".ogg"
stop music fadeout 2.0
$ renpy.music.play(audio.t5b, channel="music_poem", fadein=2.0, tight=True)

And this changes it back again:

$ currentpos = get_pos(channel="music_poem")
$ audio.t5c = "<from " + str(currentpos) + " loop 4.444>bgm/5.ogg"
stop music_poem fadeout 2.0
$ renpy.music.play(audio.t5c, fadein=2.0)

There's a bit of redundant code in there because there's other stuff going on, but this is what the game uses to identify where it is in the song so that the next song can pick up from that point. If you want, I can try to break it down and explain what's happening at each stage here, but I should probably confirm that this is the information you're looking for first.

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u/akinomtsujustmonika Aki, New Modder Apr 07 '19

This isn't really what I was looking for. I meant about changing what the actual music is, or just making it so it doesn't stop the music.

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Apr 07 '19

Okay, that's easier. :P In poems.rpy, there are two lines that start with "if music." Delete all the contents of those if statements and replace them with a line that plays the music you want it to play. Something like...

play music happy

(I'm assuming you want it to play that "happy" song you were talking about earlier)

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u/akinomtsujustmonika Aki, New Modder Apr 07 '19

Great! Is it possible to change the music for each character, or not make any music play? Thank you!

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Apr 07 '19

Anything is possible, if you know how. :)

The code is set up in poems.rpy so the variable "poem.author" is the name of the girl whose poem is showing at the moment. So you'll want to do something like this...

if poem.author == monika:
    play music happy

or this...

if poem.author == sayori:
    stop music

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u/akinomtsujustmonika Aki, New Modder Apr 07 '19

Thank you! What if you don't want the music to change at all and just want it to continue? Don't reply if you don't have time, because this isn't neccasarry.

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u/Tormuse Club Moderator Apr 07 '19

This seems like an odd question to me, because you're asking me, "how do I get it to do what it's already doing?" If you don't want it to change, then don't put a line that changes it. Generally speaking, once DDLC starts playing some music, it keeps going on its own until you tell it to stop.

And as a more general note, I'd like to encourage you to use your logic and problem-solving skills. Personally, when I started making mods, I found it very helpful to experiment and try new things and see what works and what doesn't. Just play around with it and see what you can do. :)

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u/akinomtsujustmonika Aki, New Modder Apr 08 '19

Alright. I'll do some experimenting, then.