Stop sound broadcasting from Say3D

[erem2k 10]

Hello folks,

I'm here with another audio-themed question. Music (sound) is broadcasted by a object using Say3D command - and I need to find a way to stop broadcast using user's action (addAction, strapped to same object). I heard about attaching Game Logic object to the sound-broadcasting object and killing Logic as soon as user needs to stop playing music - is it possible in any way?

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

Tried this already?

unit say3d "";

[erem2k 10]

Yup, sound dies, but with "Sound not found" - I'd want to make something more error-notification-free

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

Do you want to stop a longer type of sound or a sound that's been repeated in a loop?

Units usually stop talking when dead, buildings and objects stop emiting sound when the damage value reaches 1.

If damaging the unit isn't possible then let a game logic say the sound and kill the game logic as soon as you want the sound to stop.

[erem2k 10]

Long one, apparently (music track is played). Game logic is spawned and deleted the way regular units are spawned (and deleted, obviously), right?

Edited July 20, 2014 by Erem2k

[rakowozz 14]

Why not do this? In CfgSounds, create a new class, but with no sound file or the same sound file/dummy file with reduced decibels. Not sure if the first would work, but reducing the dB would.

class snd_test
{
name = "snd_test";
sound[] = {"sound\snd_test.ogg", db-100, 1};
  	titles[] = {};
};

Then tell it to say3D "snd_test". Not pretty, but should do it...

Edited July 20, 2014 by rakowozz

[erem2k 10]

Roger, will take a look

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

Why not do this? In CfgSounds, create a new class, but with no sound file or the same sound file/dummy file with reduced decibels. Not sure if the first would work, but reducing the dB would.

class snd_test
{
name = "snd_test";
sound[] = {"sound\snd_test.ogg", db-100, 1};
  	titles[] = {};
};

Then tell it to say3D "snd_test". Not pretty, but should do it...

I think this works similar to kbtell, since an object/unit can only say one thing at a time it will be added to the qeue, so it won't probably stop at the very moment you need it to.

[erem2k 10]

I think this works similar to kbtell, since an object/unit can only say one thing at a time it will be added to the qeue, so it won't probably stop at the very moment you need it to.

Err, I did a sound file containing no sound, declared it properly and made simple switch with it - still nothing, sound continues playing. I think approach with game logic will work - but how to spawn it (trough createVehicle or createUnit)?