Music Volume Question

[Ninjadoodle]

Hi @enpu

I can't seem to be able to set the music volume - just wondering whether it's something i'm doing wrong, or a bug ...

intro = new game.Music('intro.wav');
intro.loop = false;
intro.play();

then to set volume to 0 ...

game.Audio.musicVolume = 0;

This doesn't seem to do anything, yet it works correctly on Sounds.

[enpu]

soundVolume and musicVolume attributes are used to set the initial volume.

If you want to dynamically change volume of a single sound, use the volume property.

intro.volume = 0.5;

If you want to mute sound, use mute and unmute functions

intro.mute();
intro.unmute();

 

[Ninjadoodle]

Hi @enpu

Thanks, I will fix this for the music.

In regards to sfx however,  wouldn't I need to use soundVolume? Otherwise I would have to change the volume / mute all my sfx separately.

[enpu]

Depends on what are you trying to achieve?

If you want all your sounds to play at 50% volume, then add this to your config:

game.config = {
    audio: {
        soundVolume: 0.5
    }
};

Same works for music. If you want automatically all musics to be at 50% volume:

game.config = {
    audio: {
        musicVolume: 0.5
    }
};

 

[Ninjadoodle]

@enpu

I'm trying to setup SFX and MUSIC On/Off buttons, so from what I understand - it needs to be done one by one?

[enpu]

There is mute and unmute functions in Audio which you can use to mute and unmute all audio.

game.audio.mute(); // Mute all sounds and music
game.audio.unmute(); // Unmute all sound and music

I have just added also muteMusic, unmuteMusic, muteSound and unmuteSound functions to mute/unmute sounds and music separately.

game.audio.muteMusic(); // Mute music
game.audio.muteSound(); // Mute all sounds

game.audio.unmuteMusic(); // Unmute music
game.audio.unmuteSound(); // Unmute all sounds

There is also muted, mutedMusic and mutedSound boolean properties which you can use to check if something is muted or not

if (game.audio.mutedMusic) {
    // Do something if music is muted
}

 

[Ninjadoodle]

@enpu - Awesome, you're a legend ... I just have one more question. If I mute all SFX, does that mean that if I try to play a new one it will still play (or will it also be muted?).

The reason I was using what I thought was 'universal' volume, is that when I turned SFX off, they would stay off even if attempting to play a new one (because the volume was 0).

Mute sounds like it will just silence all current sounds, but not anything after that.

[enpu]

muteSound will mute all current sounds as well as any sounds that you play after that.

[Ninjadoodle]

@enpu - Thank you very much for adding this, as it makes the whole setting menu design a lot easier  

Really appreciate it!

[enpu]

If you want to do something (mute, set volume etc) only for currently playing sounds, there is sounds array in Audio. Just loop through it.

// Mute only currently playing sounds
for (var i = 0; i < game.Audio.sounds.length; i++) {
    game.Audio.sounds[i].mute();
}

Also you can access currently playing music from game.audio.music

[Ninjadoodle]

@enpu - Awesome, thanks again!