adding music to missions

[skypickle]

I can add scripted music, I can even have an F10 menu for playing additional music on demand.  Which framework would be best for allowing fade in/out of music on demand?

[toutenglisse]

5 hours ago, skypickle said:

I can add scripted music, I can even have an F10 menu for playing additional music on demand.  Which framework would be best for allowing fade in/out of music on demand?

Nice idea, but there is no such option with scripted functions in DCS for what I know. I think it would require to write/export data to drive an external music player ?

[skypickle]

Is that even possible for DCS to control another app?

[toutenglisse]

43 minutes ago, skypickle said:

Is that even possible for DCS to control another app?

Several softwares interracting with DCS exist (they are in DCS modding subforum). I'm not aware of any that relates to music player.

[AGM2017]

I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for because you can't control which song is playing or when it starts/stops unless you add some triggers through the F10 Radio menu, but I sometimes add music to missions by having a unit Transmit Message (I think, I don't remember exactly what the action is called). Tuning to a frequency is slightly more immersive than going through F10.

[skypickle]

That's how I let the user control the music-through an F10 menu selection. And yes a freq is specified. but I let the user select a playlist as well as turn the music on/off. Using the F10 is easier than dealing with freq selection and turning dials in the cockpit.

[skypickle]

To make it more immersiver, i had three different radio stations playing music on vhf Am 133,`135 and 137. I created a 'once trigger' and simply used 'radio transmission' as an action and pointed it to a sound file which consisted of a bunch of songs. There are three such triggers and each one has an action pointing to a different sound file and a different freq. Trouble is the music doesnt switch smoothly.  I imagine the the .ogg file is large and DCS being a single core beast just doesnt have the resources to load large files (~20 mB) quickly.