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I am trying to loop music in my game. I looked at the tutoral about it and did everything it said. But for some reason its still not working. Here is what I have so far:

Trigger

Description:

Looping music

Players:

¤ Player 3

Conditions:

¤ Current player has suffered exactly 0 deaths of Music Switch.

Actions:

¤ Modify death counts for player 3: Set to 1 Music Switch.

¤ Wait for 1 milliseconds

¤ Modify death counts for player 3: Set to 0 for Music Switch.

¤ Wait for 12000 milliseconds.

¤ Preserve Trigger.

That is for the unused player. This is for the human player:

Trigger

Description:

Human Trigger for Looping Music

Players:

¤ Player 1

Conditions:

¤ Player 3 has suffered exactly 1 deaths of Music Switch.

Actions:

¤ Play "Sandstorm clip.wav".

¤ Preserve Trigger.

What happens is the music only plays once in the beggining and will not loop again. Can someone tell me what I did wrong?

hmm, are u using hyper triggers?

No im not. I have not added any yet. But I plan too later on. I already looked for any other triggers that might effect it but I didn't see anything.

You must have some other waits running that are getting in the way. What other waits do you have running for player 3?

Thats the only trigger I have for player 3. The main duty for player 3 was just showing units that you can buy, like on the def maps. But since it was just sitting there with a couple units on the map I decided to use it.

This is my perfect-looping system.

Trigger

Description:

Looping music

Players:

¤ Player who hearz

Conditions:

¤ 'musicplaying' is cleared

Actions:

¤ set 'musciplaying'

¤ play 'music.wav' (your music wav)

This causes it to play ur wav, then throw a switch

Trigger

Description:

Looping music 2

Players:

¤ neutral comp with no bloacking actions newhere

Conditions:

¤ 'musicplaying' is set

Actions:

¤ wait for x milliseconds (time of ur wav)

¤ clear 'musicplaying'

this causes the neutral player to wait, as to allow waits and other blocking actions in the human players

this is all based to the paoint that switches are global, while trigs are not

Enjoy!

Thank you that got it right there. Don't know why the other was not working though.

Not trying to be rude, but...

your main problem: You didn't analyze your trigger.
-You didnt reset the switch(condition, a.k.a. Deathcount) so that
the trigg to set music to play again would work.

What you did is a common problem, i dont really like the other way above this post. It's less effecient, you can't use it(as shown) if you don't want music to loop forever. The trigg at the top is better, but since your happy with what you have that's fine, figured i'd just tell you your problem.

Yes he did.

Dr-Sh0tgun:
This trigger doesn't work for multiple listeners. The first listener sets the switch before the second checks his trigger.

Inuyasha1782:
your trigger should work just fine. You must of left something out please attach the map i would like to see it.

I would think it isn't a wait block however. If it was the counter would remain at 1 and the music would overlap on top of itself. It is possible for it to be a wait block IFF the blocking wait starts when p3 has 1 deaths. But i find it more likely that you copied the trigger wrong.

Tdnfthe1:
He resets it in the first trigger, the other triggers can fire because of the wait between the set and clear. Its quite ingenious actually.

ugh ur right...

perhapz i should just make multiple switches, only 4 human playerz in my map neway

No you can do any of these, although multiple switches would work of course.

-Use Death Counter so you can 'clear' it for current player.
-Put a wait 0 infront of the clear music playing action
-Use Inuyasha1782's method in switch form. (theres no reason for his to be a death counter)

It's probably nothing at all to do with wait actions, considering that Inuyasha has no other triggers for player3.

I suspect that you've just neglected a little detail, like checking or setting the death counters for the wrong player, or not preserving them.
If your triggers are exactly as you've posted them, I would think that they should work. You don't use the death counter "music switch" anywhere else, do you?

I said that it a wait block probolly isn't the case. Besides he could have triggers for player 3 in the All Players or Force Sections.