I’m shelving my Ren’py interactive music mixer plugin for now. I kept on running into too many issues I couldn’t work around. Now I feel silly for speaking so confidently about making it, but oh well, stuff happens.
I guess my big takeaway here is there’s a reason there aren’t these things already — Ren’py’s audio API makes it difficult to build, and its state management is really hard to work with too, when you’re doing anything slightly outside of what it was built for.
@fluffy Curious now o: I might take a look at it myself as I've had to beat SDL_Mixer into just doing half-decent loops with Pygame before
@pettancow Hand-managing channels seems to work fine, but I was trying to write a system that allocates them dynamically and it kept falling out of sync with itself and the Ren’py debug tools weren’t being at all helpful.
@pettancow the problem is less with the actual audio mixer and more with how Ren’py manages its state with save points and backtracking.