Problems with sound

Heya,

I'm using vocal narration for my in game tutorial. I want it to be able to play the sound once the player has collected 2 items. The first thing I tried was to have: Once item 1 + Item 2 are destroyed play sound which would not work at all.
So I then tried using the counter. Once each item is picked up by the player +1 is added to the counter. So when the counter was equal to 2 the sound would play, however when the sound started to play it sounded robotic and slow and would constantly loop as the value was always 2.

Anyone have any ideas how I could get around this?

Thanks a lot.

There are many ways to do this....but lets go with what you have..

Think about it for a moment......you say that once the counter was equal to 2 the sound would "constantly loop as the value was always 2" (which is true)
Have you tried to add 1 to the counter once the sound plays?....then it would not be equal to 2 anymore.

Item 1 is picked up
-Add 1 to counter

Item 2 is picked up
-Add 1 to counter

Counter=2
-Add 1 to counter
- play sound

The problem to that is I have a condition already for when the counter is 3 but I guess adding a different counter altogether would work well. Pretty simple really I should've though of that lol thanks a lot!

You could make another counter or add a "run once" command.As you say, the reason why it sounds strange is because the counter is always on 2. This should rectify the issue.

ie

run this event once+
counter=2


--->play sound

How do you do a run once command? I didn't realise there was such a thing.

Thanks

in the event editor - add a new event.

right mouse click the computer (special conditions) then choose limit conditions. You can now select run this event once.

You will notice other options as well, like "only one action when event loops" etc

Ah that's perfect thank you very much! Wish I knew this sooner would've saved me a lot of trouble in the past :)

no problem glad to be of assistance.

Keep in mind that if you use the "Run this event once" condition, it will do just that....It will only run it once while the frame is active.

So lets say for example you had a tutorial with Previous and Next buttons and the user clicks on the Previous button and in your events you had it set up to subtract from the counter.
Now the counter =2 again so you expect the sound to play over....well it wont because of the "Run this event once" condition you used. The only way that the condition can be true again (triggered) is if you restarted the frame.

Just a heads up!

Thanks Gerald, I've had to use a mix both of them to get it to work.

Glad you got it to work :)

So a problem I can't seem to get around at the moment is that if the player triggers the next part of the narration the sounds just over lap. This can end up being a problem because my narration sounds are triggered by certain things, for example the player will be prompted to press the "I" key for the inventory which will then trigger the next sound. So sometimes they will overlap, is there a way to stop a sound file when another one is playing?

Thanks

There doesn't appear to be a "is this sample playing" option which would quite possibly allow me to stop the sample if another sample is playing. Is there no way this can be solved then?

Yes there is a way, can you pm me an example of what your doing?
When I get home from work tonight I'll take a look and send you an example back of how to achieve what you want.

There are several solutions. Either allocate a specific channel for sounds that are meant to block each other and play all of them on that channel. Alternatively, use your own channel allocation so you know what channel to stop. Alternatively use "stop sample". Or you can use my sound system which lets you treat sounds as objects. With the last solution, set the emitter's "Continuous Mode" to 1 (required to control the sound while it's playing) and set "Stop Sound" to 1 when you wish to stop the playback (which also removes the emitter).

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Originally Posted by Nifflas

There are several solutions. Either allocate a specific channel for sounds that are meant to block each other and play all of them on that channel. Alternatively, use your own channel allocation so you know what channel to stop. Alternatively use "stop sample". Or you can use my sound system which lets you treat sounds as objects. With the last solution, set the emitter's "Continuous Mode" to 1 (required to control the sound while it's playing) and set "Stop Sound" to 1 when you wish to stop the playback (which also removes the emitter).

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This seems to be working so far so fingers crossed and thank you very much :) I always assumed channel meant specific speakers it would play on. What other advantages are there to channels.

Gerald I have pmed you my file thanks again for your help

Seems to be working now thanks a lot :)

Last question hopefully, is there any way to have: Upon sample finishing....and then a command. In this instance I would like a string object to prompt the player to press the key that was mentioned in the narration. Is this at all possible?

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What other advantages are there to channels.

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The advantage is simply to have better control. No matter what, a sound needs to play on a channel. When you use the normal "play sound" actions, it'll automatically pick a channel for you, and normally this will be enough for your needs. If you don't want to use MMF2's internal channel allocation, you can use the "on channel" actions. My sound system does however offer a much more flexible way to deal with it. You can e.g. create an emitter and tell it to play on a channel between say 1-20, and it'll pick a free channel within this range or steal the one which last began playing a sound. You can also apply modifiers to ranges of channels, e.g. "Reduce the volume on channel 1-10 by 50%", yet have a second modifier that goes "Reduce the volume on channel 5-15 by 75%" and not get a conflict within the overlapping range (you'll get a 12.5% volume on Channel 5-10). It's very powerful and useful for e.g. setting sound/music/ambiance volumes separately, effects (slowing down the time and setting a frequency modifier on all channels to match this), echoes (using delayed emitters), global mute settings, etc. The only disadvantage is that it doesn't handle "play sounds over frames" very well.