Audio in layers

Have you put a trigger to stop or pause the media on the button that shows the layer? Put it above the trigger to show the layer. That should turn off the audio on the base, and if each layer hides other layers, starting a new layer will turn off the audio on all the other layers.

Thanks Walt

I’ll give that a go shortly.

Regards

Steve

Hi Walt

I’m sure you are not surprised that your suggestion works. There’s an
element that surprises me, however.

Each of 3 buttons are on the base layer, arranged vertically on the left.

Each layer shows a panel to the right of the buttons.

I put a trigger on each of the buttons to stop the audio on the base layer,
so whichever button is pressed, the base audio stops and the audio for the
associated layer starts. No surprise there.

What I cannot work out however is that once the audio on the base has been
stopped and the ‘layer audio’ starts, clicking any other button stops the
audio that had been playing on the layer and starts the audio on the new
layer. And whichever button I press from then on, I get the same (desired)
effect. But I cannot see why that is working. I thought I would have to
explicitly stop each layer’s audio with an additional trigger, but the only
audio my triggers refers to is the one on the base.

There’s a lot to learn.

Thanks again

Steve

Layers default to Hide other layers (which can be changed if you need), so showing one stops all the others.

When a layer is hidden, it stops everything that is going on in that layer; media, timeline, lists of triggers.

Alternately, you can take away the stop media triggers, and set each layer to Pause the timeline of the base layer. Then when a layer is closed, the base (and its audio) resumes. This may not be anything you want, but just FYI.

Thanks again Walt. It’s good to try out different ways of achieving an
effect.

Regards

Steve

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