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[SOLVED] How would I make an audio play in a different area?

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Sensei_Developer 298

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

Introduction

I want to create an immersive roleplay game, but I wish to make an area play a specific audio. For example, the player enters the wilderness, and I want it to play music that is related to that.

As for my attempts, I made two parts; InsidePart and OutsidePart. InsidePart lets the script know that the player has entered the inside of the area. OutsidePart will let the script know if the player has exited the area.

Scripts

My script inside InsidePart:

1script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
2    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
3        workspace.InsideAudio:Play()
4        workspace.OutsideAudio:Stop()
5    end
6end)

My script inside OutsidePart:

1script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
2    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Humanoid') then
3        workspace.InsideAudio:Stop()
4        workspace.OutsideAudio:Play()
5    end
6end)

Conclusion

Any help please? It doesn't work when it's supposed to.

P.S, I heard that placing audio inside of the workspace will play it server-wide, placing audio inside of StarterPlayer will play it client-side. Let me know if you know how to make it play client-side only. Thanks!

you could place an invisible part to play the audio and give a specific range in which the audio plays by editing its properties. Roviospace 22 — 5y

Alright, I'll try that later. But what I want is when a player enters the part, it will play the audio. Thanks for the suggestion anyways. Sensei_Developer 298 — 5y

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Answered by

guidable 42

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

I think you'd be better off using Region3 for this kind of thing. I'll give you some example code and explain every line in detail, as well link some sources.

01-- put this in a local script
02local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- We get the Players Service in order to get LocalPlayer, and using GetPlayerFromCharacter method.
03local RunService = game:GetService("RunService") -- We will be using RunService.Heartbeat 
04--  event to check whether or not our player is in the area
05 
06local Client = Players.LocalPlayer -- I prefer to call LocalPlayer client; 
07-- it's just my personal preference.
08local InsideAudio = workspace.InsideAudio -- or path to the audio
09local OutsideAudio = workspace.OutsideAudio -- or path to the audio
10 
11 
12local InsidePart = workspace.InsidePart -- or path to the part
13local OutsidePart = workspace.OutsidePart -- or path to the part
14 
15function CreateRegion3FromPart(Part)
16    local PartSizeDivided = Part.Size / 2 -- Divides the Part Size in two
17    return Region3.new(Part.Position - PartSizeDivided, Part.Position + PartSizeDivided)
18end
19--CreateRegion3FromPart creates a Region3 by getting the bottom low corner and top corner
20-- via subtracting and adding to Part.Position
21 
22local InsideArea = CreateRegion3FromPart(InsidePart) -- Creates the Region3 Area
23local OutsideArea = CreateRegion3FromPart(OutsidePart) -- Creates the Region3 Area
24 
25local Connection -- Connection variable, this is where the connection will be stored
26 
27-- This function itself checks whether or not the player is in the Area, and then plays the sound
28function Check()
29    -- workspace:FindPartsInRegion3() gets the parts in Region3's.
30    local PartsInside = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(InsideArea, nil, math.huge)
31    local PartsOutside = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(OutsideArea, nil, math.huge)
32 
33    -- These variables exist to check if the player is inside or outside
34    local PlayerInside = false
35    local PlayerOutside = false
36 
37 
38    -- Now we loop and check if player is in the Area
39    -- Numeric loops are more efficient than for k, v in pairs() do loops.
40    for i = 1, #PartsInside do
41        local Part = PartsInside[i] -- gets the part
42 
43        local Parent = Part.Parent -- gets the parent part, in order to check for humanoids to
44        -- make this a bit more efficient
45        local Humanoid = Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
46        if Humanoid then
47            local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Parent)  -- Gets player
48            if Player == Client then -- Checks if the player is Client, if it is then it proceeds
49                --to play audio and set PlayerOutside to true
50                PlayerInside = true
51                if not InsideAudio.Playing then -- checks if it's not playing. if it isn't then 
52                -- it plays the sound. this is to prevent it repeatedly playing
53                    InsideAudio:Play()
54                end
55                break
56            end
57        end
58    end
59    for i = 1, #PartsOutside do
60        local Part = PartsOutside[i] -- gets the part
61 
62        local Parent = Part.Parent -- gets the parent part, in order to check for humanoids to
63        -- make this a bit more efficient
64        local Humanoid = Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
65        if Humanoid then -- Checks if humanoids Exists
66            local Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(Parent) -- Gets player
67            if Player == Client then -- Checks if the player is Client, if it is then it proceeds
68                --to play audio and set PlayerOutside to true
69                PlayerOutside = true
70                if not OutsideAudio.Playing then -- checks if it's not playing. if it isn't then 
71                -- it plays the sound. this is to prevent it repeatedly playing
72                    OutsideAudio:Play()
73                end
74                break
75            end
76        end
77    end
78 
79    if not PlayerInside and InsideAudio.Playing then -- Checks if Player isn't inside and 
80    -- InsideAudio is playing, which if that is true it stops the audio
81        InsideAudio:Stop()
82    end
83    if not PlayerOutside and OutsideAudio.Playing then -- Checks if Player isn't Outside and 
84    -- OutsideAudio is playing, which if that is true it stops the audio
85        OutsideAudio:Stop()
86    end
87 
88    -- This does not check whether or not player is both outside and inside meaning Audio's 
89    -- might overlap.
90end
91 
92Connection = RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(Check)
93--[[Now I reference the connection with the variable here; 
94Why I am using Heartbeat instead of RenderStepped
95is because it is not really that important if it's slightly delayed,
96as using RenderStepped can slow down the game a lot while rendering, 
97leading to bad player experience.]]
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Sources

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/WorldRoot/FindPartsInRegion3 https://developer.roblox.com/api-reference/function/Players/GetPlayerFromCharacter https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/RunService/Heartbeat https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/RBXScriptConnection

I hope this answer was helpful, and I'm sorry if this answer is slightly bad, I'm slightly inexperienced with answering. Feel free to ask further.

Cheers, Luke.

Edit Updated the code very slightly to not repeatedly play sound's if they are inside the Area.

Woah woah. Slow down there, pal. Why on Earth would I need a Region3 to play audio? But thanks for answering, I might take this into consideration. Sensei_Developer 298 — 5y

Region3's fit well for what you want. Region3's are pretty much designed for stuff like this. guidable 42 — 5y

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