Howdy. I'm happily working away at a set of functions for an RPG in v3, what with my last little project mysteriously managing to delete itself.

Anyway, I'm getting along with not too much trouble - well, as little as you can expect at a point where there isn't any documentation for it out yet - but I have of course hit a minor problem. Wouldn't be here if I hadn't, eh?

Anyway, the code in question that is causing me some degree of concern is the following:

(Apologies in advance for any instances of code that could probably be a lot better. I'm on the lower end of intermediate.)

void FadeOut_m()


{


int loop;





loop = 100;





while (loop > 0)


	{


	SetLucent(loop);


	rectfill(0,0,screenx, screeny,rgb(1,1,1),screen);


	ShowPage();


	loop == loop-1;


	


	if (GetSongVolume(currentmusic) > 0)


		SetSongVolume(currentmusic, (GetSongVolume(currentmusic)-1));


		


	Wait(2);


	}


SetLucent(0);


FadeMusic();


}

"currentmusic" stores the music currently being played at all times.
"screenx" and "screeny" are just aliases for the height and width of the screen. They were in v2 but not v3. It would be nice to see them back, as either one is shorter to type than "ImageHeight(screen)."

Its supposed to fade to black, fading the music with it. If it isn't completely quiet by the end of the while loop, the FadeMusic() function I scripted does it immediately afterwards. This is because the user can alter the music volume in-game, so the function isn't sure what volume the music is actually at when it runs. As you can guess, it doesn't quite work.

The visual fade happens, but the audio one doesn't. So:

1. What the heck am I doing wrong?
2. Are the built-in functions I'm using fully functional?
3. Am I using aformentioned functions correctly?
4. Have I just missed something painfully obvious?

V3 is great, by the way. Very, very exciting stuff going on.

I'll assume you're using the latest version of v3, complete with fmod?

I'm not quite sure what's wrong offhand. If you come to #vergehelp on espernet, I (or someone else) will to help you.

Well, nice to see I won't have to code this soon. I'm using the v3 with fmod. The file I'm trying to fade is a module: an XM to be precise although I have tried the same function with a MOD too and it also doesn't work.

I also made the FadeMusic() function I was using log the volume. The music is supposed to be at a volume of 100 but once FadeMusic starts logging the volume, it hits four then one and then zero. Yargh.

Seeing "666" in that code makes it look evil.

The rock and the roll is the music of the devil, doncha know?

&lt; is the html entity for <

FYI:
& starts an html entity.
; finishes it.
The inside usually is an abbreviation for it.

lt in this case stands for "less than".

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"screenx" and "screeny" are just aliases for the height and width of the screen. They were in v2 but not v3. It would be nice to see them back, as either one is shorter to type than "ImageHeight(screen)."

Code

---

#define screenx imagewidth(screen)


#define screeny imageheight(screen)

---

I'm pretty sure that if you type the following, it will let you. I haven't tested this, though.

I already #define'ed them. That's sort of what I meant by "alias." Vague, aren't I?

It just would have been nice to not have to define 'em. Laziness, really, but it saves the time it takes to realise they're not there when you're porting v2 code over to v3.