✅ | How to make a sound play on launch

[bold pecan]

How do I make a sound play with the Game Intro?

[remote monolith]

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[remote monolith]

Yep, the documented way to get sound on launch is to use a Video as your Game Intro 🎬🔊

What the docs say:

• APNGs/GIFs can be used as Game Intro, but they’re just visual
• Video intros support sound
• Native video support requires Watermedia V3 and Watermedia Binaries V3

How to set it up:

1. Open FancyMenu’s menu bar
2. Go to Customization -> Global Customizations
3. Open Game Intro
4. Set your intro to a video file
5. Adjust the volume and sound channel there if needed

So if you want audio during launch, use a video intro instead of an APNG/GIF 👍

If you want, I can also help you choose the right intro format for what you’re trying to do 🙂

[bold pecan]

can i set a listener to play an audio when game intro starts?

[remote monolith]

I can’t confirm a dedicated listener for “Game Intro started” from the docs 😅

What the docs do show:

• Game Intro can be set globally in Global Customizations
• Video intros support sound directly 🎵
• There’s a listener called On Video Playback Status Changed, but it’s documented for video elements / video menu backgrounds, not explicitly for the Game Intro feature
• There’s also On Animated Texture Started Playing, but again, the docs don’t say for sure that it fires for Game Intro specifically

So the safest answer is:

• If you want sound on launch, use a video intro with sound built in
• I wouldn’t rely on a listener for this unless you test it yourself and confirm it works

If you want, I can show you the exact steps to set up a launch video intro with audio in FancyMenu 🎬🔊

[bold pecan]

how to set up on animated texture start playing audio

[remote monolith]

Yep, you can do that with the On Animated Texture Started Playing listener 🎧🟢

Basic setup:

1. Open Menu bar -> Customization -> Manage Listeners
2. Create a new listener
3. Select On Animated Texture Started Playing
4. In that listener’s action script, add Play Audio

If you want it to play a specific sound file, the Play Audio action uses a JSON value like this:

{"audioSource":"[source:local]/config/fancymenu/assets/example.ogg","soundChannel":"master","baseVolume":1.0}

A couple of useful notes:

• The listener exposes variables like $$texture_source, $$texture_source_type, and $$texture_will_restart
• So if you only want the sound for one specific animation, you can use $$texture_source in a condition to check which animated texture started
• If you want the sound to stop later, you can pair it with On Animated Texture Finished Playing and use Stop All Action Audios 🔇

If you want, I can help you build the exact listener script for:

• every animated texture
• one specific FMA/APNG only
• or play a different sound per texture 🙂

[bold pecan]

how to play specific sound per texture

[remote monolith]

Yep, the clean way is to branch on $$texture_source inside the listener 😄🎧

What to do:

1. Create a listener: On Animated Texture Started Playing
2. In its action script, add an IF / ELSE-IF chain
3. For each branch, add an Is Text requirement
   • compare $$texture_source to the source of that specific animated texture
   • use equals
4. Inside that branch, add Play Audio with the sound you want for that texture

Example idea:

• IF $$texture_source = texture A → play sound A
• ELSE IF $$texture_source = texture B → play sound B
• ELSE IF $$texture_source = texture C → play sound C

Example Play Audio value:

{"audioSource":"[source:local]/config/fancymenu/assets/sound_a.ogg","soundChannel":"master","baseVolume":1.0}

If you’re not sure what $$texture_source looks like for your animation, add a temporary Print to Log action with something like:
Texture source: $$texture_source
Then trigger it once and check the log 🪵

If you want, I can help you build the exact IF/ELSE-IF setup for your specific textures.

[remote monolith]

✅ | How to make a sound play on launch