Dynamic Music Player 3.3
- Author Damgam
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Damgam
Theres no way to change the font via the UI, but you can do it by editing the lua file and adding the font file into Fonts. If I remember correctly theres only one line in the whole script that defines the font.
Thank you! I'm a fan of the app for months now. The "Car Production Year Based" option is a great benefit for immersion.
In my specific case, however, it's not really a solution, because:
Let's say I want to race the "Nissan Fairlady Z 'Akuma no Zetto'" from the anime series "Wangan Midnight".
I want to listen to suitable 1990s/2000s music, but as the car has the production date "1969", only 1960s music would be played.
The same applies to over 1000 affected cars that were built in a different decade, but have been modified with modern technology (and "require" modern music).
Changing every car e.g. from "1969" to "1990" would not be an option for me (with over 2200 cars in total).
In my case, however, all the cars in question are assigned with appropriate TAGs (in the "ui_car.json"), like "-Wangan_Midnight" or "-Initial_D", and so on.
If your player queries the year of manufacture, can't it also read TAGS, or at least "brand", "name", "class"?
I've spent the last few hours renaming an mp3 music file with the TAG #-Wangan_Midnight, and then modifying the "DynamicMusicPlayer.lua" by first inserting the TAG at "local trimmedWords = {" (from line 485). Then I played around (from line 681) with those lines:
local carProductionYear = ac.getCar(ac.getSim().focusedCar).year
if string.find(filename, "#YearMin1900") and carProductionYear <= 1900 or
...
I tried to replace e.g. "year" with other terms, like "tag", or "tags". Unfortunately, nothing worked so far... Do you have any ideas? I think that many in the AC community could benefit from this!
In my specific case, however, it's not really a solution, because:
Let's say I want to race the "Nissan Fairlady Z 'Akuma no Zetto'" from the anime series "Wangan Midnight".
I want to listen to suitable 1990s/2000s music, but as the car has the production date "1969", only 1960s music would be played.
The same applies to over 1000 affected cars that were built in a different decade, but have been modified with modern technology (and "require" modern music).
Changing every car e.g. from "1969" to "1990" would not be an option for me (with over 2200 cars in total).
In my case, however, all the cars in question are assigned with appropriate TAGs (in the "ui_car.json"), like "-Wangan_Midnight" or "-Initial_D", and so on.
If your player queries the year of manufacture, can't it also read TAGS, or at least "brand", "name", "class"?
I've spent the last few hours renaming an mp3 music file with the TAG #-Wangan_Midnight, and then modifying the "DynamicMusicPlayer.lua" by first inserting the TAG at "local trimmedWords = {" (from line 485). Then I played around (from line 681) with those lines:
local carProductionYear = ac.getCar(ac.getSim().focusedCar).year
if string.find(filename, "#YearMin1900") and carProductionYear <= 1900 or
...
I tried to replace e.g. "year" with other terms, like "tag", or "tags". Unfortunately, nothing worked so far... Do you have any ideas? I think that many in the AC community could benefit from this!
Damgam
ac.getCarTags(0)
but i'm not sure if it returns a table of tags, or a long string with all tags listed.
you can check it by running ac.log(ac.getCarTags(0)) and looking into Lua Debug app.
I thought about adding car tags into options but I couldn't figure out a way to do it without false positives... maybe make it so it's #CarTag-whatever... Will see. It's certainly a good idea.
Something you could do, is put the specific music in additional folder (You can create extra folders in the Music folder and the app won't mind), and then add that extra folder into playlists in ExternalMusicPaths file under an 'if' condition. I've recently explained how to do that in the Discussions here. https://www.overtake.gg/threads/dynamic-music-player.266290/post-3797911
If you need any more help you can find me on Discord under `damgam` nickname, or ask questions in the Discussions here. I'm happy to help.
but i'm not sure if it returns a table of tags, or a long string with all tags listed.
you can check it by running ac.log(ac.getCarTags(0)) and looking into Lua Debug app.
I thought about adding car tags into options but I couldn't figure out a way to do it without false positives... maybe make it so it's #CarTag-whatever... Will see. It's certainly a good idea.
Something you could do, is put the specific music in additional folder (You can create extra folders in the Music folder and the app won't mind), and then add that extra folder into playlists in ExternalMusicPaths file under an 'if' condition. I've recently explained how to do that in the Discussions here. https://www.overtake.gg/threads/dynamic-music-player.266290/post-3797911
If you need any more help you can find me on Discord under `damgam` nickname, or ask questions in the Discussions here. I'm happy to help.
Damgam
Due to how cooldown lap is set up, I'm pretty sure I actually cannot.
Not without finding some new way to tell you are on the cooldown lap at least.
Not without finding some new way to tell you are on the cooldown lap at least.
Damgam
Well, clearly you did something wrong (or I did with the latest version *.* ?). I'll be happy to help you if you wish, in the Discussions tab.
Damgam
Actually, if you use AC showroom and not the CSP one, it plays Idle music in it. I don't think i could make it detect that you're in showroom, but yea, that works.
Damgam
I'm glad you like it! Yes, most of people would look at this and shrug off as "Dude you wouldn't listen to music while racing in real life", but there's big community of Assetto players that take it less seriously and turn it into more of a simcade experience. And that's the group this app is made for.
Sure you could just play Spotify/YouTube in the background, but I think that it reacting to what's happening in the race is what makes it so much better, and is what music often does in games.
Sure you could just play Spotify/YouTube in the background, but I think that it reacting to what's happening in the race is what makes it so much better, and is what music often does in games.
Damgam
Gotta admit that my playlist is so big it never reached the end... That sounds like either i've messed something up in the last update (which is possible), or it has been a bug for a while and i've never noticed. Either way, I will investigate that and it should be fixed in the next update.
Edit: Can't reproduce, but i've put an extra "if" that checks not to play the same track twice in a row. So that will be in the next update.
Make sure all the files in the folders are actually music. It's possible that some unsupported files might throw the counting off and break things.
Edit: Can't reproduce, but i've put an extra "if" that checks not to play the same track twice in a row. So that will be in the next update.
Make sure all the files in the folders are actually music. It's possible that some unsupported files might throw the counting off and break things.
Damgam
Only files, but you can link it to external folders in the special file in the music folder.
Damgam
It already is running on a shuffle. I have no plans for adding true random (why would I, shuffle is better) or sequential (why would I, you'd get same music every race)