Scenario Turn and .wav Playing Problem

[Alinestra Covelia]

Right, I'm trying to polish off my Star Wars:Rebellion scenario, and one of the problems I'm having is with the turns.

I want the game to start in 1 AD (or equivalent). The game goes in 1 year increments. I set the scen starting year to 0 (for the default), and this works fine. It makes my scenario turn 1 AR.

Right then. I want the game to play a .wav file the first turn of the scenario. I have the sound in the sounds file for the scenario, and that seems okay. In the events text file, I have put a command line telling the scenario to play the .wav file near startup. Neither of these works properly.

A) IF SCENLOADED then PLAYWAVFILE start.wav

B) IF TURN=1 then PLAYWAVFILE start.wav

If I place the .wav file as a combat noise, then it plays during combat, so I'm sure the .wav itself is correct. Can any of you suss out the mechanics of the game, and penetrate my appalling grammar, to find out WHAT'S WRONG???

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Miner]

1) The SCENARIOLOADED trigger is only supposed to be used in conjunction with DONTPLAYWONDERS (the action that stops wonder movies playing) anything else casues unpredictable results.

2) Although not documented, there are several problems with events on turn=1. I don't know why and I expect someone else to give a better explanation.

[Alinestra Covelia]

There are even problems getting the .wav to play on turns 2, 3, etc.

Is there some sort of thing where I actually have to state the real turn that the scen is in, rather than the relative turn?

So would I have to go digging to find out what on earth "1 AD" really is?

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Gothmog]

Try this.

@IF
TURN
turn=1
@THEN
PLAYWAVEFILE
start.wav
@ENDIF

[Alinestra Covelia]

Here are the egs of code from the events.txt that I have. They don't work properly.

@IF
SCENARIOLOADED
@THEN
PLAYWAVEFILE
Start.WAV
@ENDIF

and

@IF
TURN
turn=1
@THEN
TEXT
[blah blah blah...you really don't want to know]
ENDTEXT
PLAYWAVFILE
start.wav
@ENDIF


These don't work, and I'm sure it's something to do with the turn problem, not the wave file itself. (I set Lord Vader's attack sound to it once, and got an earful of John Williams whenever he attacked.)

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Paul Hanson]

Does the text get displayed?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Good question.

The answer is no, it doesn't.

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Miner]

In which case the event is not even firing, rather than a problem with the event.

In the Cheat menu, go to Set Game Year

WHAT IS THAT NUMBER?

[Alinestra Covelia]

The year is 101. Like a certain nice room we have all heard about.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner...

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[William Keenan]

@IF
TURN
turn=-1
@THEN
TEXT
[blah blah blah...you really don't want to know]
ENDTEXT
PLAYWAVFILE
start.wav
@ENDIF

If it works please don't ask me to explain why.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Now this is interesting. This time using the turn as "-1", the text shows up properly. However, the music is still not firing correctly.

Any hints? Tips? Walkthroughs and level descriptions?

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Gothmog]

One thing I've noticed
PLAYWAVFILE should be PLAYWAVEFILE
However, that doesn't explain why the text doesn't work.
Perhaps there is something wrong with the event before, like it not having an @ENDIF.

[Alinestra Covelia]

That worked a treat! Now all the music plays and the text pops up! Thanks a lot for your help, tips, and expertise(s?).


Final little nitpick question: does anybody else find that the very first text popup message in a given scenario will look a bit darker than all the others, as though the letters were written in BOLD font?

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Alinestra Covelia]

"TURN=-1"

I have found out that this makes the event take place every turn. Perhaps putting in a JUSTONCE ought to iron this little niggle out?

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"In all creation, there can be no task more onerous or tedious than that of playing God." - Stephen Fry, 'The Liar'.

[Gothmog]

I've noticed that bold text too.