Custom Music

[HighFlyer]

Hey guys,

I have a problem, I have scripted a race on MTA Race, but wanted to make custom music. I added this into meta.xml

<meta>
   <info author="Puzi" description="FastSpeed Raceway" version="1.2" type="map" />
<map src="raceway.map" />
<script src="music-somethinggood.lua" type="client"/>
<file src="somethinggood.mp3" />
</meta>

My song is in a MP3 file. This is the music-somethinggood.lua file:

function startMusic()
   setRadioChannel(0)
   song = playSound("somethinggood.mp3",true)
outputChatBox("Toggle music on/off using M")
end
 
function makeRadioStayOff()
   setRadioChannel(0)
   cancelEvent()
end
 
function toggleSong()
   if not songOff then
    setSoundVolume(song,0)
	songOff = true
	removeEventHandler("onClientPlayerRadioSwitch",getRootElement(),makeRadioStayOff)
else
    setSoundVolume(song,1)
	songOff = false
	setRadioChannel(0)
	addEventHandler("onClientPlayerRadioSwitch",getRootElement(),makeRadioStayOff)
end
end
 
addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()),startMusic)
addEventHandler("onClientPlayerRadioSwitch",getRootElement(),makeRadioStayOff)
addEventHandler("onClientPlayerVehicleEnter",getRootElement(),makeRadioStayOff)
addCommandHandler("musicsomethinggood",toggleSong)
bindKey("m","down","musicsomethinggood")

The problem although is that the script doesnt want to open, it failes to load on the console. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Puzi

[Gamesnert]

You mean something like:

"Failed to load resource "?

Type:

"info "

And see why it fails to load. Then fix it, and type "refresh" or "refreshall".

[HighFlyer]

Erm, in the console it says ''Couldn't find music-somethinggood.lua...'' or something. It's in the same folder tho, zipped called race-raceway.

[HighFlyer]

info: Resource was not found.

I wonder why. I have meta.xml, .map, .lua and mp3 file. The file is called race-raceway. Please help =(

I still get ERROR: Could not find music-blabla.lua file for resource race-raceway.

[Callum]

It appears the problem is not with the music file, but with the script. Things like too little/many "(" and ")" or "," in the wrong place can cause a script to fail. But it should ouput that error on debugscript. I can't actually find any errors in your script. And line 8 is useless, if you're cancelling the event they won't switch the station in the first place. Maybe you should add that to an onVehicleEnter function, because when entering a vehicle for the first time by default a radio station comes on.

By the way, if it's commercial music it's illegal to give all the clients a copy of it.

[lil Toady]

Does your system show file extensions? It could be that you saved your file as music-somethinggood.lua.txt for example.

You could try to open the file with notepad, then in "save as.." make sure you have "any file type" selected instead of "text file"