Help with making the map BGM carry over into battle.

[Aqueous]

Before anyone says anything! I've seen the current thread about it and it's not what I'm looking for!

Basically, I'd like to make it so I can turn a boolean on and off accordingly so that, depending on this, the map BGM music continues over the battle BGM/ME instead of it changing. I've already made it so it continues over all the time by, as suggested in an earlier thread, putting a "#" in front of 2 lines in Scene_Map.

However, I'd liek to make it so that this "phasing out" is conditional based on my setup. I tried to do as follows:

if $battle_music_switch = 1
$game_system.bgm_stop
# Play battle start SE
end
$game_system.se_play($data_system.battle_start_se)
if $battle_music_switch = 1
# Play battle BGM
$game_system.bgm_play($game_system.battle_bgm)
end

Then, on the map where I wished for the Map BGM to carry over I made it so the variable $battle_music_switch was = 0 in an autorun event on the map by selecting the Script Event Command and typing $battle_music_switch = 0.

I thought this would work but to no avail. Any ideas how I could accomplish this?

 

[Aqueous]

Figured it out. Needed to put if $battle_music_switch == 1 instead. Not sure why I need to put an additional == though but whatever the hell works!

And instead I put $game.switches[number] == true...just found that in another thread and thought it more appropriate.

Thanks anyways, can close this !

 

[JustinAC]

Figured it out. Needed to put if $battle_music_switch == 1 instead. Not sure why I need to put an additional == though but whatever the hell works!

And instead I put $game.switches[number] == true...just found that in another thread and thought it more appropriate.

Thanks anyways, can close this !

The reason for this is that in programming, writing x = y basically says the following: set x equal to y. The statement $battle_music_switch = 1 is not a boolean expression, what it's doing there is SETTING $battle_music_switch to 1. The correct way to denote "is x equal to y?" is the following (x == y). Just make sure you understand the distinction

 

[Aqueous]

Yeah thanks ^^. It's just confusing for a newbie to programming language.

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