Please...why doesn't this play the file? It's in the games directory with the prites sounds and models...

media_play("moonlight.mid",null,100);

writing wdl for a game in a6.

Does the midi sound play when you open it with windows media player? Have you accidentally set midi_vol to 0?

Yep. Tje mkidi file is good. I always listen to them before using them. I thought the volume is a parameter in media_play. What do you mean? I set it to 100, and the speaker is on and other sounds work. Gee, I've done it before but I don't remember how I did it.

There is a predefined variable "midi_vol" which gives the overall volume of all midi files played. Just give it a try and place a "midi_vol = 100;" right before the media_play instruction.

Thanks, I thought maybe I had to define sound = <moonlight.mid>;
before or something.

No, you don't need to. Please try the following:



If that doesn't work check your direct sound capabilities with dxdiag.exe.

I had to make it a function because it was in main (where I played a wave before and that was okay, it came on with the title screens) but now it gives an error


handle = media_play("moonlight.mid",null,100);

function intro()
{ if (media_playing(handle) != 0) // this is line 54
{
error("The file is playing but cant be heard.");
}
wait(1);
}

function main()
{

intro(); // I used snd_play to plat a wav before)

// the error says "Error 63 parameter unknown handle"

you forgot to define the variable.

Ok, thanks. I'll be off line for a while.
Dinner calls (Am in Virginia)

merci Beacoup

It's running like a Rolls ROyce now, sounds great. Omly problem is while i head the music, it prints an error report that I can't hear it. So I'll take that report out.

Thank you for all your help. I'm doing a demo to advertise a paperback I've written which will be on Amazon.com around Thanksgiving, called "Virtual Pleasures". After the publication I'm going to hold an author event in 2nd life. (The Game Studio graphics look a lot better than 3nd life usually does!)