Dev Day Episode 68: still grey and cloudy, but it's that bright kind of grey almost?

here's an updated dropbox link because mr bilesky asked me for a new version.

this is apparently version 1.0.0.4.

so just putting that out there before i start doing stuff.

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i'm not very good at making physical sound effects.

i'm trying to manipulate the drum effects to try and make footsteps and stuff but it doesn't sound great.

i might want want to try and find some way to record some footstep effects.

what i have done today though, was get that sound button working.

100%

80%

0%

and then when you click it again it loops back to 100%

i'm a little proud of how i did this cause i think it's clever.

i've got a global variable of "volume" which i use as a decimal modifier.

so in this code for the sound button:

if (volume==0){
volume=1;
audio_play_sound(sfx_menu_click,10,false);
}
else{
volume=volume-0.2;
audio_play_sound(sfx_windowed_mode,10,false);
}

if the volume is at 0, or 0%, it jumps it up to 1, or 100%.

any other time you click the button, it lowers the modifier by 0.2, or 20%.

and when in use it looks sort of like this;

audio_sound_gain(bgm_hubworld,(0.4*volume),0);

this code sets the audio file to 40% by default, because i made it a bit too loud.

then it's multiplied by the volume modifier, which could be 100% - 0%, with intervals of 20%.

then, back to the sound button.

it changes sprite with this code in the step event.

image_index=volume*5;

so if the volume is 1, image index is 5, with 5 dots filled in.

if volume is 0.4 (40%) image index is 2, with 2 dots filled in.

tomorrow i'll see if i can make some more sfx, either with software or by recording stuff.