Sound Effect Continuously Repeating

Game Discussion

Meatballsub

Liquid Metal Slime

Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:10 am

Hey guys,

I have part of a script that uses a sound effect and it seems to repeat itself over and over again (or until another sound effect is playing). Not sure what
to do here. I'm using the latest official release of the engine for everything.

Code:

   if (pposx == npc x(1) ,and, pposy==npc y(1)) then (
   play sound (3,false,false)
      alter NPC (1,NPCstat:move type,npcmovetype:standstill)

   alter npc (1,NPCstat:picture,3)
   death := true
)

Cornbread Chemist

Bob the Hamster

Liquid Metal King Slime

Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:07 pm

Your usage of "play sound" seems to be correct, so I am guessing that the whole "if" statement is being rapidly re-evaluated over and over again in a loop.

Maybe something like this would work?

Code:

if (pposx == npc x(1) ,and, pposy==npc y(1)) then (
if(already played == false) then(
play sound (3)
already played := true
alter NPC (1,NPCstat:move type,npcmovetype:standstill)
alter npc (1,NPCstat:picture,3)
death := true
)
)else(
already played := false
)

Meatballsub

Liquid Metal Slime

Tue Jan 05, 2010 6:17 pm

Thanks for the tip. I did something like this and it worked:

Code:

   if (pposx == npc x(1) ,and, pposy==npc y(1)) then (
      if (alreadyplayed == false) then (
      play sound (3,false,false)
      alreadyplayed := true
   )
      alter NPC (1,NPCstat:move type,npcmovetype:standstill)
   alter npc (1,NPCstat:picture,3)
   death := true
   )

Cornbread Chemist