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HTML5 sound macro suite for Twine. Based on Leon Arnott's Glorious Trainwrecks sound macros plus story-wide volume control, individual track volume control, seamless loops (with crossfade), fade duration control, and the ability to start multiple audio tracks at once.

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sqTwineSound

       sqTwineSound HTML5 Sound Macro Suite
       Copyright 2014 Tory Hoke

             Program URI: http://www.sub-q.com/plugins/sqTwineSound/
             Description: Sound macros for Twine creations, including controls for volume, fade interval, and playing multiple tracks at once.
                 Version: 0.8.0
                  Author: Tory Hoke
              Author URI: http://www.toryhoke.com
                 License: GNU General Public License
             License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
              Repository: https://github.com/AteYourLembas/sqTwineSound
             FAQ / Q & A: http://sub-q.com/questions (password: ThinkVast)

Bug Reports/Feature Requests: http://sub-q.com/forums/topic/what-would-you-like-to-see-sqtwinesound-do-that-its-not-doing/ (password: ThinkVast)

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This program based on: Twine: HTML5 sound macros by Leon Arnott of Glorious Trainwrecks the source and influence of which appear under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SUITE CONTENTS

 updatevolume    clipName, *volumeProportion e.g. <<updatevolume $clipName 0.5>>
 playsound       clipName
 playsounds      [clipName1, clipName2, ...]
 pausesound      clipName
 pauseallsound   
 stopsound       clipName
 stopallsound    
 oopsound        clipName, *volumeProportion, *overlap
 unloopsound     clipName
 fadeinsound     clipName
 fadeinsounds    [clipName1, clipName2, ...], *volumeProportion, *overlap
 fadeoutsound    clipName
 fadeoutsounds   [clipName1, clipName2, ...]
 quieter
 louder
 jumpscare       clipName <-- PLEASE GIVE YOUR READER A STARTLE WARNING BEFORE USING JUMPSCARE!

KNOWN ISSUES

  • If your story throws an alert, it will probably pause the sound playback. Note that whenever sound playback is paused by something other than another sqTwineSound macro, the timing of loops will be thrown off. One way to work around this is to manually pause sound in your passage (<<pausesound $backgroundMusic>>) before you throw up the alert, and then resume the sound <<playsound $backgroundMusic>>again after the alert.

  • When vigorously stopping and resuming multiple tracks, there is sometimes some skipping and unexpected behavior. Not sure why. Investigating.

  • As of Twine v 1.4.2, the Sugarcane and Jonah story formats don't seem to hand off variables to these custom macros. For example, if you're using Sugarcane or Jonah, please use <<playsound "music.mp3">> instead of playsound <<$music>>. Sugarcane and Jonah also don't have the neat <> macro that the Sugarcube story format does, so making volume control buttons could be a bit of an adventure. I personally prefer the Sugarcube story format, but I'm not the boss of you.

BONUS FEATURES

  • The full demo (using the Sugarcube story format) provides working examples

  • A Sugarcane- and Jonah-friendly flavor of the script works with native Twine story formats. I can't guarantee this flavor will always have the same features of the Sugarcube flavor, but I hope it's useful.

  • The macros that take multiple parameters (e.g. clip name, volume proportion, and overlap) make a good-faith effort not to freak out if you give them these parameters in an unexpected order. It can kind of figure out that "clipName.mp3" is the clip name, and 0.5 is the volume proportion, and 2000 is the milliseconds to overlap. But if you try to mix up a macro's preferred order of parameters AND give it a decimal number as overlap, expect the unexpected!

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