Trigger MOD Pattern

[DanielAllsopp]

Evening! Not expecting anyone to be around at this time, but has anyone got any decent experience of using Frank Wille's ptplayer? I've got some mod's with a different pattern for end of level etc, and I see that ptplayer itself states this:

E8 command can be used as a trigger for your main program.

But I can't find any information on how to trigger a different pattern within the mod file itself, which is already playing. I've tried to move the pattern number into the function:

  moveq	#17,d0
  jsr _mt_E8Trigger

...but this just crashes out.

Can anyone help me out here? It would be greatly appreciated.

[DanielAllsopp]

Just doing some reading and E8 is for triggering events from the MOD file and not the other way around. So, it’s read-only.

Back to some reading…

[phx]

You can put any number of sub-songs into a module, which share the same instruments. Assuming your main song is between song-steps 0 and 10, you would put a B00-command at the end of its last pattern (at step 10) to loop back to step 0. Then you can assign your level-end pattern to song position 11 and start it by calling _mt_init with d0=11.

This is how we did it in our games. There is no function to play individual patterns yet, and I don't see why it is needed.

[DanielAllsopp]

Originally Posted by phx

You can put any number of sub-songs into a module, which share the same instruments. Assuming your main song is between song-steps 0 and 10, you would put a B00-command at the end of its last pattern (at step 10) to loop back to step 0. Then you can assign your level-end pattern to song position 11 and start it by calling _mt_init with d0=11.

This is how we did it in our games. There is no function to play individual patterns yet, and I don't see why it is needed.

Yeah, sub-songs is what I was referring to. Sorry about that. I've also just figured out that I need to call _mt_init again so I'm all sorted I think.

Thanks for your reply though