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lee

Post subject: More sound tasks.

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 2:36 am

Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:40 pm
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The ability to loop play sound samples. Possiblly one task to start a loop sound and another to stop it.

If an attempt is made to loop play a sound already loop playing it returns an error but otherwise no effect, the same if an attempt is made to stop a sound that is not loop playing.

I'm trying to start/stop continuous background sound effects, like the tank engine sound that would be in EASyZONE if I could make it work, and so far the efforts have been mostly sucky.

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profkelly

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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:41 am

Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:42 pm
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I'll see what I can do.

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profkelly

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:32 pm

Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:42 pm
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working on this now.

Just a quick note.
The standard Windows player is only able to play one sound at a time.
If you are playing a background sound in a loop you will not be able to
play other sound effects unless the background sound is stopped first.

Is this OK?

What should happen if trap task 72 is used to play a sound when a different
sound is currently looping?

DirectX can play multiple sounds at the same time.
Should I add a DirectX task to play sounds in loops?

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profkelly

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 3:57 pm

Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:42 pm
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Here is what I have at the moment, may change in the future.

Code:

 76 - Stop sound from DirectX memory loaded with trap code 74 using DirectX player.
    pre :  D1.B must contain sound reference number used in trap code 74.
    post:  D0.W = non zero on success
           D0.W = 0 if DirectX player not available

 77 - Play sound special using standard player.
      Sound must be in memory loaded with trap code 71.
      Only one sound may be played at a time.
    pre :  D1.B must contain sound reference number used in trap code 71.
           D2.L = 0, play sound once (this is the same as trap task 72)
           D2.L = 1, play sound in loop, returns error if sound already playing
           D2.L = 2, stop playback, stops any sound that is playing, returns success even if sound not playing
           D2.L = other values reserved for future use
    post:  D0.W = non zero on success
           D0.W = 0 on error

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lee

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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:10 pm

Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:40 pm
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Quote:

If you are playing a background sound in a loop you will not be able to play other sound effects unless the background sound is stopped first.

Is this OK?

Yes that's fine.

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What should happen if trap task 72 is used to play a sound when a different sound is currently looping?

It should fail, the same as it would if any non looping sound were playing.

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DirectX can play multiple sounds at the same time. Should I add a DirectX task to play sounds in loops?

If it can be done then yes please.

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Here is what I have at the moment

Looks good so far. It would certainly fix the saucer sound in Asteroids. </shamless plug>

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profkelly

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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:16 pm

Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:42 pm
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Available in v4.7.0

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