Compiling the game

[Ethan D]

I am having a few problems in trying to compile my game.

1) When played in full screen there is a lot more black area than in separate window mode.
2) The music is not playing from the right files but is using a much older file
I think the second one I have to do the rebuild VOX thing but I cant find it.

[Ishmael]

A lot more as in? Above and below or on the sides? Do you have the "Use letterbox mode" option enabled which makes black bars above and below the game image. In the second case it'd seem your monitor's and game's aspect ratios are different and the aspect ratio is maintained.

If you're using digital music you may need to rebuild the music.vox file, with the "Rebuild all files" option found under the Build menu.

[GuyAwesome]

About the second question: Are these the files you changed from MP3 to midi? From the manual entry on 'Distributing your Game':

NOTE: MP3, OGG and WAV music files are not included in the exe. They will instead be built into a file called MUSIC.VOX when you build the game EXE. Since OGGs, MP3s and WAVs override all other music file types, this allows you to have an Digital Music Pack which you can distribute separately to your game. If it is present in the game directory it will be used, otherwise any other music available (eg. MIDI) will be played instead.

So yeah, delete and rebuild music.vox...

[Ethan D]

A lot more as in? Above and below or on the sides? Do you have the "Use letterbox mode" option enabled which makes black bars above and below the game image. In the second case it'd seem your monitor's and game's aspect ratios are different and the aspect ratio is maintained.

The extra Black is only underneath the background sorry for not mentioning that.  I think it may be because the game is set at 320x200 so it doesnt fit right at full screen. Use letterbox is not checked

About the second question: Are these the files you changed from MP3 to midi? F

Yes these are Mp3 to midi Ill try the rebuilding.

[Ethan D]

I cant rebuild the VOX

[GuyAwesome]

"Can't" as in 'don't know how' ('Build' -> 'Rebuild all files', as Ishmael said - there's no 'Rebuild music.vox only' option), or as in 'did that, but it didn't do anything'?

I'm not sure how the rebuild works exactly, but I think it only checks for new, non-midi, files to be added to the vox. If there are none it leaves the vox alone, as any midi files will get bundled into the exe. If the files you DON'T want included are still there, it'll include them even if there's a midi with the same name as well - and I think that if there's no digital music at all it won't make a new vox, but equally it won't delete an existing version. So,
- Did you try deleting the old music.vox first?
- Are the MP3 versions of the tracks still in the game folder?

And that's me out of ideas, obvious as they were to begin with - I'm not far enough along with a game that music is a concern (In fact, haven't started one at all yet...)

[Ethan D]

"Can't" as in 'don't know how' ('Build' -> 'Rebuild all files', as Ishmael said - there's no 'Rebuild music.vox only' option), or as in 'did that, but it didn't do anything'?

I'm not sure how the rebuild works exactly, but I think it only checks for new, non-midi, files to be added to the vox. If there are none it leaves the vox alone, as any midi files will get bundled into the exe. If the files you DON'T want included are still there, it'll include them even if there's a midi with the same name as well - and I think that if there's no digital music at all it won't make a new vox, but equally it won't delete an existing version. So,
- Did you try deleting the old music.vox first?
- Are the MP3 versions of the tracks still in the game folder?

And that's me out of ideas, obvious as they were to begin with - I'm not far enough along with a game that music is a concern (In fact, haven't started one at all yet...)

I first deleted the old vox and then did rebuild all files and now no music plays at all.
The music is in midi format.

[Ishmael]

If it's midi files and they are in the correct folder rebuilding the game itself should update them automatically into the new exe.

[Ethan D]

Its working now thanks for the help everybody.