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To play background music (which loops until you stop it), you use the :
play music "ominous.ogg"To use fade-in or fade-out (in seconds):
play music "ominous.ogg" fadein 2 fadeout 2To stop the background music, you use :
stop musicTo play a sound effect, use the :
play sound "bang.ogg"There's a Ren'Py function to stop sound, but there's usually no reason to use it.
If you want to add voice acting to your visual novel, you'll need to put each screen of dialog into a separate file, and name them in a way that you can figure out which line of dialog they go with. Then, before each line of dialog, put a :
voice "bob203.ogg"
bob "I love ice cream."
voice "nancy218.ogg"
nancy "I love ice cream too."
voice "bob204.ogg"
bob "I also like cookies."