I’ve tried a few different strategies from seeing YouTube tutorials on this. Problem is my main menu is on a separate game mode. So if I try storing a global variable of that it gets overridden when a new game mode is loaded in my regular levels.
I’ve also tried putting the main menu in the same game mode as my levels. But then I run into issues where the game instance object with my music seems to just disappear after ~45 seconds. So my music just randomly stops after 45 seconds.
Levels right now are chosen from the main menu but I can put a level section menu in game but that’s more of a pain.
Would persistent levels solve this problem?
Anyone have an idea on how I could get a playlist of music to continuously play without interruption from the main menu until the game is exited? I just want the music to shuffle each time the game is loaded up.
Starting it from the game instance should do the trick.
You can also have a persistent level from which you stream all the other levels you want to load. Notice ‘stream’, not ‘load’. Then play from that level.
But like I say, GI should do the trick. What makes you think the GI is dissapearing? Because you would have no game if that was the case…
Yeah, that’s what I thought too but the music just seems to cut out ~45 seconds in when nothing is going on. I’m having a hard time understanding why or how to debug that. All other sounds work fine.
Before the cut out issues, I would run into issues with the GameInstance being recreated when going back to the main menu as it seems like it was re-initialized in the new MainMenu level that loaded in. That caused the music to restart. Does sound right?
Yeah, the audio tracks are 2-3 minutes long each. I’ve triple checked the length of them. I guess I’ll try converting everything to a Streaming workflow with persistent levels. The music would usually get choppy sometimes during big level loads which streaming may fix as well…
