Music stops playing when entering dialogue

[nookstray]

I have music playing on my level, but when I enter dialogue, it stops. I’m guessing this is because I’m pausing the game to play the dialogue. Does anyone know a way around this? Maybe a way to only pause player movement and not audio? I would appreciate any help with this.

[Jowan-Spooner]

Yes this is caused by you pausing the game. Although I know that emilio did the same in his video, I would not suggest to using godots pause system for this, because it means, there is no way to actually pause your game anymore (for a pause menu of some sort).

I personally always use some kind of gamestate to tell the player and other things, that a dialog is running (or that other things are happening).

Here is a fictional example of how that could work:

# An Autoload Script called GameState.gd

enum States {None, Combat, Dialog}
var current_state = States .None

# when starting the dialog
func _on_NPC_start_dialog():
    if Dialogic.has_current_dialog_node():
         return
    var dialog = Dialogic.start('Overworld/Npc1/Greeting')
    dialog.connect('timeline_end', self, '_on_dialog_ended')
    add_child(dialog)
    GameState.current_state = GameState.States.Dialog

# once the dialog ended
func _on_dialog_ended(timeline_name):
    GameState.current_state = GameState.States.None

# how to avoid things when dialog is playing
func _physics_process(delta):
    # return in case there is currently a dialog playing
    if GameState.current_state == GameState.States.Dialog:
        return
    
    # if no dialog is playing do your movement
    if Input.is_action_pressed('crazy_movement'):
        do_crazy_movement()

There are other options too. If you want to keep pausing the whole game you will need to set the pause_mode of the AudioPlayer to process. You can find that in the inspector at the very bottom.

If introducing a whole GameState doesn't make sense for your project you can just check agains Dialogic.has_current_dialog_node() which will return true whenever there is a dialog node running.

[abbylian]

How is your music implemented? I resolved mine by putting AudioStreamPlayer node to Process (it's set to Inherit by default, if I remember correctly)

[nookstray]

Thank you so much! This resolved the issue.