sound-repeat

MarcoCol

Hi,
In my project, I have a sound-playing-rule, that says, that the Sound A should be played in random spaces between 3 and 10 seconds.
Mostly it works good. But sometimes when I start the project, after 3 seconds, the sound was played and then it will repeat again and again when it was finished to play - same as looped. But only sometimes !?
What is there wrong?

gamesfua

Is it perhaps because it randomly chose to play it every second or so? It appears like you said you wanted it to play randomly between 3 and 10 seconds. What if its doing just that?

MarcoCol

I chose random(3,10) and most tome it works correct. But sometimes the first play is after 3 seconds and then it will repeat each second (because the sample is about 1 second)...

gamesfua

Can you be a bit more specific on exactly what you're trying to do, and perhaps show the rules that you are using. This may better help myself and or anyone else, to help you along.

MarcoCol

Hi anatomyofdreams,

I put a simple behavior inside my "Level-Logic" actor in the scene, which says:
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Timer (Random)3,10 sec
Play sound XYZ (run in completion; no loop)
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That's it.
with this format I also have two more "Random-Sounds" in this "Level-Logic"-Actor, and they didn't repeat all second, as the one above! But all sounds are about of 1 sec.

gyroscope

Hi Marco

The Timer Behaviour doesn't have "a memory"; what I mean is, whatever the first random time is, it'll continue with that same time. Then there's the problem of triggering the sound after a different random time.

I guess there is more than one solution to these problems; this is one way to go about it (the following is off the top of my head but should work out):

Make an integer attribute called RandT; make a boolean called Switch

Rule: When Switch is false
Change attribute RandT to random(3,10)
Play Sound XYX ---- run to completion unchecked
Timer: After RandT seconds ---- run to completion checked
Change attribute Loop to true


Rule: When Switch is true
Change attribute Switch to false

gamesfua

Gyroscope has it right in my opinion. Has this helped you out?

MarcoCol

Hi.

sorry for the late reply. It worked good.
But one question regarding this: With one sound, everything is clear. If I use now 4 different sounds, must I then make 4 times each of the attributes and name them different or is there an easier way?

gyroscope

Hi Marco, yes....and no... ;-) Joking apart, it depends on what you're after; you could make just one more integer attribute (let's call it SoundRand) and have 1 out of the 4 sounds randomly picked to play every random time...

Rule: When Switch is false
Change attribute RandT to random(3,10)
Change attribute SoundRand to random(1,4)
When SoundRand =1
Play Sound 1 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =2
Play Sound 2 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =3
Play Sound 3 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =4
Play Sound 4 ---- run to completion unchecked
Timer: After RandT seconds ---- run to completion checked
Change attribute Loop to true

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Rule: When Switch is true
Change attribute Switch to false

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Or, have the sounds play in order (but still with random amounts of time):

Rule: When Switch is false
Change attribute RandT to random(3,10)

Rule: When SoundRand = 4
Change attribute SoundRand to 0

Change attribute SoundRand to SoundRand+1
When SoundRand =1
Play Sound 1 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =2
Play Sound 2 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =3
Play Sound 3 ---- run to completion unchecked
When SoundRand =4
Play Sound 4 ---- run to completion unchecked
Timer: After RandT seconds ---- run to completion checked
Change attribute Loop to true

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Rule: When Switch is true
Change attribute Switch to false

MarcoCol

Hi gyroscope,

I choose the first try and it worked perfect.
But the last "change attribute", is it right to change attribute "Loop" to true? I think it must be "Switch", or am I wrong? Also I didn't find any attribute called Loop. And with "Switch" it worked good I think

gyroscope

Whoops! Well spotted, Marco; yes, "Loop" is called "Switch" in my example... sorry 'bout the slip up but you caught it! :-)

MarcoCol

No Problem. It shows me, that I also "understand" the solution
I thank you!