A little problem with playing sound - it disappears

DaveGWelsh

Hi all,

So, I have a problem with sound at the moment.

In my game, a sound is called a number of times when an event happens. However, after it has been called a few times (maybe 5 or 6), it is never played again, even though the on-screen visual effect is displayed. If I reset the scene, it works again, but of course, I can't do this in the game

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

Cheers in advance!

charliehgreen

This is what I do, I create an interger attribute and name it "SoundPlay"

On the actors or when that event is called I add a rule that says "change attribute soundplay to 1" and on the otherwise I say "Change attribute soundplay to 0"

Then on the scene make a rule that says, when soundplay = 1, play sound.

charliehgreen

Works like a charm for me

DaveGWelsh

This is what I do but after it is played say 5 or 6 times, the actor is triggered but the sound doesn't play.

If anyone has any suggestions, that would be awesome. The game is really small, so I seriously doubt its a memory issue.

The sounds just cut out.

Can sounds be played to often? That sounds like a really noob question, I know, but i'm trying to go through all possibilities.

charliehgreen

Yeah they can, I have a game where sounds are played hundreds of times back to back with no issue.

Hmmmm

DaveGWelsh

Ok, this seems to be a known issue. Here's another forum post about it.

https://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/57827/possible-bug-sound-effects-cutting-out

DaveGWelsh

Ok, another update to maybe track down the issue.

It's not ALL sounds that is being affected. it's only those which are attached to actors that are called at certain times. Other sounds, which are just running as normal are not affected. However, those which are attached to actors which are called depending on an attribute are switched off after a while.

DaveGWelsh

Has there been any word on an update to the sound cut-off bug?