Different sound for each scene

jeremyfukunaga · February 20, 2020 at 6:25 AM

Hello,

I'm hoping to get some instruction on having a different mp3 for each scene. Basically, I have a nature tour and purchased various sounds for the various outdoor settings.

Also, I set loops="0" but the sound keeps stopping.

Thanks in advance for any help.

- Jeremy

Tuur · February 20, 2020 at 10:15 AM

Hi,

there are more ways to Rome, i give you two...

https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/examples/audio_scene/1/
xml:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/exa…cene/1/tour.xml

And one slightly different:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/examples/audio_scene/2/
xml:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/exa…cene/2/tour.xml

hope it helps!
Tuur

spacerywirtualne · February 20, 2020 at 12:28 PM

Sounds familiar

Tuur · February 20, 2020 at 1:14 PM

Ah yes..
I didn’t realize.
Sorry!
Just cleaned up the laptop and searched for short mp3’s on my system.
If you like i can change the audio files.

Audio credits in the example come from the html5 vr audio plugin:
https://krpano.com/plugins/userplugins/html5vraudio/#top

Tuur

spacerywirtualne · February 20, 2020 at 3:08 PM

You didn't have to do this Tuur. I was happy.

vrTourSoft · February 20, 2020 at 4:25 PM

Quote from jeremyfukunaga

I'm hoping to get some instruction on having a different mp3 for each scene. Basically, I have a nature tour and purchased various sounds for the various outdoor settings.

Hi!
Look here. It can help you.
In vrTourSoft you can add scene sound to each panorama.

This feature allows you to add a separate sound to each panorama. For example audio guide..
The program converts the original sound into the required file formats (.mp3, .ogg) and copy them on tour.
The program add the necessary code to play the sound.
It will create a button in the extraskin that will turn the sound on/off. This button will appears only if the sound is exist in the panorama.
You can select the number of repeats.

Read more https://www.vrtoursoft.com/editors/scenesettings.html#sound

jeremyfukunaga · February 21, 2020 at 6:52 AM

Quote from Tuur

Hi,
there are more ways to Rome, i give you two...
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/examples/audio_scene/1/
xml:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/exa…cene/1/tour.xml
And one slightly different:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/examples/audio_scene/2/
xml:
https://www.virtualtuur.com/krpano/120/exa…cene/2/tour.xml
hope it helps!
Tuur

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Thank you so much for your response. Unfortunately, I am still having trouble implementing you examples. Perhaps if I provide the code I am working with it will help? Let's say I want to add audio1.mp3 to the first scene, audio2.mp3 to the second scene, and audio3.mp3 to the third scene. How would you do it?

<krpano flare_dir="skin/lensflare" />

<skin_settings maps="true"
maps_type="google"
maps_bing_api_key=""
maps_google_api_key=""
maps_zoombuttons="false"
maps_loadonfirstuse="true"
gyro="true"
gyro_keeplookingdirection="false"
webvr="false"
webvr_keeplookingdirection="true"
webvr_prev_next_hotspots="true"
autotour="false"
littleplanetintro="false"
followmousecontrol="false"
title="false"
thumbs="true"
thumbs_width="120" thumbs_height="80" thumbs_padding="10" thumbs_crop="0|40|240|160"
thumbs_opened="false"
thumbs_text="false"
thumbs_dragging="true"
thumbs_onhoverscrolling="false"
thumbs_scrollbuttons="false"
thumbs_scrollindicator="false"
thumbs_loop="false"
tooltips_buttons="true"
tooltips_thumbs="false"
tooltips_hotspots="false"
tooltips_mapspots="false"
deeplinking="false"
loadscene_flags="MERGE"
loadscene_blend="OPENBLEND(0.5, 0.0, 0.75, 0.05, linear)"
loadscene_blend_prev="SLIDEBLEND(0.5, 180, 0.75, linear)"
loadscene_blend_next="SLIDEBLEND(0.5, 0, 0.75, linear)"
loadingtext="loading..."
layout_width="100%"
layout_maxwidth="814"
controlbar_width="-24"
controlbar_height="40"
controlbar_offset="20"
controlbar_offset_closed="-40"
controlbar_overlap.no-fractionalscaling="10"
controlbar_overlap.fractionalscaling="0"
design_skin_images="vtourskin_light2.png"
design_bgcolor="0x000000"
design_bgalpha="0.8"
design_bgborder="0"
design_bgroundedge="1"
design_bgshadow="0 4 10 0x000000 0.3"
design_thumbborder_bgborder="3 0xFFFFFF 1.0"
design_thumbborder_padding="2"
design_thumbborder_bgroundedge="0"
design_text_css="color:#FFFFFF; font-family:Arial;"
design_text_shadow="1"
/>

<action name="startup" autorun="onstart">
if(startscene === null OR !scene[get(startscene)], copy(startscene,scene[0].name); );
loadscene(get(startscene), null, MERGE);
if(startactions !== null, startactions() );
</action>

</scene>

</scene>

</scene>

</krpano>

Tuur · February 21, 2020 at 11:19 AM

Hi,

first add this to the code:

Code

<events name="audioscene" keep="true" onnewscene="ChangeScene();" />
	<action name="ChangeScene">
        calc(_audiourl, 'audio/' + scene[get(xml.scene)].sound + '.mp3');
        playsound(curaudio, get(_audiourl));
	</action>

when you use the 'rootpath' setting in the soundinterface plugin (audio in your case) then you should change
calc(_audiourl, 'audio/' + scene[get(xml.scene)].sound + '.mp3');
to
calc(_audiourl, scene[get(xml.scene)].sound + '.mp3');

in every scene you should add:
sound="YOUR AUDIO FILE NAME" (audio1 for example)
like:
<scene name="scene_004033_panorama" title="004033_panorama" onstart="" sound="audio1" thumburl="panos/004033_panorama.tiles/thumb.jpg" lat="" lng="" heading="" >

i use sound in this case (sound) but you can also use 'labrador' or 'tulip' of course

Hope it helps,
Tuur

jeremyfukunaga · February 22, 2020 at 6:16 AM

Hi Tuur,

You are the master!! Thank you so much -- it worked! I hope to understand what the code means one day. For now, I just copied and pasted.

One other thing, if I may. The sound does not seem to loop. I thought setting the loops value to 0 makes it endless, but it plays just once. Any ideas?

Tuur · February 22, 2020 at 8:41 AM

Try playsound(curaudio, get(_audiourl), true);

Not tested, i’m on phone now
Tuur

indexofrefraction · February 22, 2020 at 9:52 AM

@jeremy

-->

https://krpano.com/plugins/soundinterface/#playsound

the documentation it is really good

jeremyfukunaga · February 22, 2020 at 11:55 PM

Quote from Tuur

Try playsound(curaudio, get(_audiourl), true);
Not tested, i’m on phone now
Tuur

That worked perfectly. I can't thank you enough, Tuur!!

I will publish the tour soon if you are interested in viewing it!

Best,

Jeremy

lnailoveme · February 26, 2024 at 3:44 AM

Quote from Tuur

Try playsound(curaudio, get(_audiourl), true);
Not tested, i’m on phone now
Tuur

Hello, could you please guide me on how to create a mute/unmute button for sound on a VR tour? I am new to this and trying to learn. I haven't been able to create a sound toggle button yet. Thank you so much

Tuur · February 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM

Hi,

maybe try this on the onclick of your button/icon:

Code

onclick="switch(plugin[soundinterface].mute);"

krpano.com - Plugins - Sound Interface

Hope it helps,

Tuur

lnailoveme · February 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM

Awesome, it's working. Thank you very much.

Participate now!