Sound FX doesn't play on collision

Hunnenkoenig

New day, new problems.

My wallbreaker game is ill again.

I have a brick and I say "if ball hits you, play sound X". The ball hits the brick, but no sound is playing. What's wrong?

I have another rule on the ball, where a sparkle anim is spawned when the ball hits the racket. I placed a sound in the sparkle actor, so when it spawns, it plays the sound. Works fine.

Why my brick sound doesn't work?

rebump

I usually have to click "Play to completion" for sounds activated upon collision. If the brick is destroying itself, you need to put a very short timer in to hold the destroy statement...so fire off your sound, wait a short bit, then destroy the actor.

dereklarue

If your destroying the Actor that plays a sound the sound will not play.
Try changing it so the sound will play in the ball actor.
Basically just do what rebumb says.

Hunnenkoenig

rebump, you are a true enrichment to this forum :-)

I actually destroy the actor by spawning a destroy animation.
I will try to delay the destroy command after I have slept a bit :-)
Now I turned my PC off, because I had enough :-)

But I think, that will be the solution.
Thanks!

@dereklarue: thanks! Also a good solution to try :-)

Hunnenkoenig

Aaaand the wiiiinneeeer iiiiis.......DEREKLAURUEEEEEEE :-)

I added the sound to the ball and it works immediately.
I don't need to mess with delays and timers and such :-)

I feel so stupid.... :-)

The only problem is, it plays only one sound at once and if the ball hits 2 or 3 bricks it gives only one sound. But maybe it is better so....

rebump

Actually, you probably want the bricks to trigger their own sound effects (using the timer delay before the destroy) so that you do get multiple brick sounds at once or nearly at once (in the case of the ball hitting a few bricks in quick succession).

Having the ball generate the brick effects is probably what is causing your single sound issue.

Hunnenkoenig

rebump thx,

I will try that too.

Hunnenkoenig

So, I changed it with time delay, and now it is perfect.
You were right.

I had some problems first, because my bricks have very complex rulesets, but then I managed to do it right.

Thanks

JGary321

Yea, a .1 timer solves A LOT of issues

BaDDApple

newbie question. Where do you add the timer? I'm having the same problem.

chosenonestudios

@baddapple: once you open up one of your actors, scroll down and click on behaviors and then scroll all the way down to the bottom and there the timer is. Good Luck!

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firemaplegames

Add the Timer to the Rule.

So:

Rule
When [an event is triggered]
-----Play Sound
-----Timer After 0.1 secs
----------[do something else]

BaDDApple

Thank you everyone for your help.