So, I conducted a simple test for a problem I was having involving sound. Went somethin' like this:
Upon Pressing A -> Play Sample "xxx", Set Sample Volume to 20.
It works fine after one press but doesn't work correctly however if pressed again before the sound finishes. The second sound plays at its loudest. The test is for footstep sounds that play softly or loudly depending on the distance from the player.
Is there any way to fix this?
Use channels, and set channel volumes.
I'm guessing the reason that that doesn't work is because the overlapping sample is forced to play on a different channel or something or the sample volume action only effects the first sample playing
If you do "stop sample" right before playing it again, it should work decently. Unfortunately this prevents you from playing multiple instances of the same sample... I wish there was a solution to this but I don't know of any (a channel can also only play one sound at a time, if I remember correctly).
Yes I forgot to mention, the channel only allows one sample at a time
I recommend using "Play sample on channel" in combination with "Set channel volume". Use a system that based on a changing value selects the channels by an increasing and rotating sequence.
Nice idea! Why didn't I think of that :]Originally Posted by Nifflas
Right, but what happens when you want to have more than just one sound? You divide it up and allow the value only to get up to a certain value. So if you wanted 4 sounds playing at a different volume than the default and overlapping then there would be 8 channels per sound...
It's a good idea, the only flaw is running out :/
I actually doubt MMF can handle more than 32 sounds playing at once anyway. So I think Nifflas' "circular" idea would work just fine for multi-samples. You'd never "run out" of channels --- worst case scenario, one sound (that occurred 32 sounds ago) would get clobbered by a new one. It'd work great as long as you didn't mix in something long like a music track.
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