Muting/unmuting sounds

[timcclayton]

Hello all.

I am playing various different samples in a frame but have now built an "Options" frame for the standard game options like muting/unmuting sounds. I have a Global Value which changes depending on the user choice in the Options frame for muting sound but when I test for this option at the beginning of each frame (IF "Sound = 0" THEN "Stop any Sample").

This mostly works but some sounds still leak through as an annoying "click" sound whereas others are completely silent.

Can anyone explain why this is happening and how better to handle muting/unmuting of sounds?

Thanks in advance,
Tim.

[Jeff]

You could send some menu commands to check/uncheck the play samples or play music menu choices, even if the menu is hidden.

This might be a better way to do it but it would require you to do a bit of eventing to make it work how you need it to.

A nice little example file of this would be pretty cool if anyone has some free time.

[timcclayton]

An example would be great if anyone can put one together - I cannot get the sounds to silence properly at all!

[keokeo]

Have you trying stoping all the channels instead of samples?? Maybe it will work better.

[timcclayton]

Is that with the "Stop any sample playing" option? If so, I have tried that with the same results unfortunately. Otherwise I can't find a "Stop all channels" option.

[keokeo]

Can't you just manually set it to stop all the channels you don't want playing? It's should take more than a couple of minutes to make.

[timcclayton]

Should each sample be on a separate channel?

I must admit that I haven't been assigning channels to samples at all while building the game but that may well be just through lack of knowledge! I have a 45-minute looping music sample as the soundtrack and then a number of individual samples for shooting/moving etc. noises.

[Xeeko]

I find that just setting the channel volume to 0 works best for muting sounds.

[timcclayton]

So should I set all my samples to play on Channel 0? Or should each sample use a different channel? Or the soundtrack uses Channel 0 and all other sounds use Channel 1 maybe?

Sorry, but this is my first game in MMF so am unsure on how the sound should be laid out!

[Xeeko]

It's probably a good idea to map out the sounds over different channels. Set the music to channel 1, all effect to channel 2-3, all ambient sounds to 4-5 etc. You'll have greater control over the sound this way.