The final area in which these markers were useful was to transition between standard area themes and combat themes. Standard combat is initiated through the enemyProximity parameter, representative of the player’s proximity to threats, which slowly adds a tremolo string part and fades out the main underscore before transitioning to the combat theme for the respective area. However, as the time of the player’s exit from combat is uncertain, I composed a small exit motif for each combat theme that plays once enemyProximity is reset to one. For this, I made use of the quantisation feature of transition regions, meaning that as soon as the parameter tells the region to transition, the transition will be delayed until the next appropriate beat, ensuring the exit motif plays in time. One concern I had was that, once combat was exited, the playhead would always reset to the start of the area theme. This was a concern I removed by creating a system of eight destination markers throughout the piece that, due to eight separate transition regions I added with percentage chances, each had an equal chance of the playhead being transported to after combat (using a method suggested on this forum).