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Plastico
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 07:07
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yes, it sounds easy, but im stuck.

I want to achieve a simple looped sound of a rowing boat.



that does not work, it just gives me a long "beeeeeeeee" sound.
I looked at the looped sound, but I just, dont understand it at all.
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Sir Spaghetti Code
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 07:14
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That "beeeee" sound is your row sound looping over itself a thousand+ times as the program runs quicly over your simple code. Unfortunetly, I am in the same boat as you (no pun intended. I don't play like that ). I am trying to make a "grunt" sound in a game as my player punches, but it sounds right for a second, then begins to do the "beeeeeeee"! Just thought I would tell you what that is

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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 07:22 Edited at: 9th Aug 2004 07:23
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You are going to kick yourself...

LOOP SOUND
This command will play and loop the specified Sound Number continuously. Optional parameters allow you to specify a start position, end position and initial position in bytes that a looping sound will use as it plays.

Personally, I never use LOOP SOUND. I always use a small routine that checks the status of all my sounds at any given time, and I decide whether I want to loop it again or not, reduce the volume, increase the speed, etc...

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Don't put LOOP SOUND in your main loop(directly)! Put it in before your main loop and the sound will loop untill you tell it to stop.

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Yeah, I was using loop sound. Your right, I'm an idiot! Need to make a subroutine to check if the sound is playing, and if not, then play it again. Sweet!

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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 12:16
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I did this initially, I tried to avoid the loop, since it still confuses me. (newbie luck of mine)



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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 13:22 Edited at: 9th Aug 2004 13:24
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I understand what he meant now. Don't know why I didn't get it sooner. Ok, when the sound needs to be played, do a gosub or create a function (or I suppose you could just do it in the code), that, when it needs to play the sound, you use
I guess. May be a little off in a few details, as I am at work right now and can't try it, but that is the general idea.

EDIT: Oops, fixed the code snippet. Had a 1 instead of a 0 for returnInt. That should work!

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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 13:30
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that works much better actually.
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Posted: 9th Aug 2004 18:29
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Maybe I was a little vague. You can use LOOP SOUND by itself, with no need to do anything else. Do this ONCE, not in a loop.

If you want more control, use the method I described, which is illustrated perfectly in Spaghetti's code.

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