Cabal Common Library Doc Music

Overview

This is the main class for the event driven inflight music for missions.

The script handles incoming data from worldScripts to play music in specific situations. OXPs can place or remove their sets fairly simple and a few parameters are handled. The inserted data is associated to the inserting worldScript by ID and the whole group of events can be easily de/activated at every time via .changeStatus(). Additionally a property can be assigned to a specific event, means that different entries can be de/activated by using different properties.

Note: Length, volume and fadeIn/fadeOut in the audio itself are important factors for a smooth transition between musicfiles. For the volume it is adviced to use at least -9 db (peak) to avoid conflicts with spoken inflight messages and digital clipping.

Properties

requestHandlerSet

On startUp created set of handlers (Array) for Cabal_Common_Music.

	var a = worldScripts.Cabal_Common_Music.requestHandlerSet; a -> [ [aegis, enter, exit], [alert, red, ... ] ... ]

Functions

addMedia()

	addMedia = function( obj )

Adds incoming object to the list and associates the entries to the sending worldScript. Internally every entry gets an ID, so don't pass non-writable, sealed or frozen objects.

Properties:

who

String. Required. Name of the sending worldScript.

start

Boolean. Required. Starting state after insertion.

aegis

Object. Allowed members: enter³, exit³.

alert

Object. Allowed members: red, yellow¹, green¹.

destroyed

Object. Allowed members: ent.

exitWS

Object. Allowed members: inter, goneNova, doNova, standard, any.

launch

Object. Allowed members: ent, inter, goneNova, doNova, main, any.

planet

Object. Allowed members: ent³, enterMain³, enterSun³, exitMain³, exitSun³.

scooped

Object. Allowed members: ent².

track

Object. Allowed members: byName.

Returns

Boolean

True on success, false on failure.

¹ If other handlers have fired blocked for 10 seconds.
² The handler is only fired for scripted pods.
³ Can collide, because aegis and planet vicinities can be close together.

The above mentioned members are all of type Array and are holding the music related objects. See Structure for a overview.

removeMedia()

	removeMedia = function( who )

Removes entries from the stored list.

Properties:

who

String. Name of the worldScript.

Returns

Boolean

True on success, false on failure.

changeStatus()

	changeStatus = function( who, status )

Removes entries from the stored list.

Properties:

who

String. Name of the worldScript.

status

Boolean. Changes the active flag for all inserted files of a specific worldScript.

Returns

Boolean

True on success, false on failure.

Structure

A short overview about the expected structure:

	var eventMusic = { who:this.name, start:true, aegis:{ exit:[ {prop:"myProperty",music:"myMusic.ogg"} ] } }; worldScripts.Cabal_Common_Music.addMedia(eventMusic);

The objects that are holding the music itself have a set of available properties as well, but only music is required.

dist

Number. Min. distance to entity. Only available in track.

ent

String. Entity name. Available in destroyed, launch, planet, scooped and track.

fadeQ

Number. Sound as transition between musicfiles. If used must be 1 (will be expanded).

music

String. Filename with fileextension.

prop

String. Name of worldScript property to be checked.

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