[vJASS] Playing Sounds

[Mr_Bean]

Hi guys,

Status: Solved!

I am wondering how to play sounds in vJASS efficiently. I just want to play sounds to all players, no matter where they are looking (like the DotA spree sounds). I looked in JassCraft, and it says this is how it is done:

local sound soundHandle = CreateSound(soundName, false, false, true, 12700, 12700, "")
call StartSound(soundHandle)
call KillSoundWhenDone(soundHandle)

What do I put in between the "" (where it declares the local)? How do I properly nullify the sound when it is done playing?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Mr_Bean]

"" -> sound path

Could you please give me an example of the whole function CreateSound. Why have soundName and soundPath?

KillSoundWhenDone will destroy the sound when it will be finished (i've already tested it)

So just null the sound variable when you've done with it.

Thanks!

EDIT: Not a double post, Troll-Brain deleted his post.
EDIT2: Never mind, I figured it out. Solved!

 

[Troll-Brain]

I've deleted because of that : forget what i've said about soundpath, this is not the sound path argument, i think this last string could be ignored.

Now, for blizzard sounds if you want to know which string argument is needed, simply define it in the sound editor and check the map script.

Tip : If you use the JNGP (and probably also with jasshelper alone) check for the text file currentmapscript.j after saving the map (this file is in the subfolder "logs" of your JNGP folder)

Now i've never used sounds, some people are saying that (sometimes or always maybe) the sound is not played the first time you play it.
So there are resources about that.

 

[Mr_Bean]

Okay. How do I play a sound from a variable array? Example:

call PlaySoundBJ(udg_Level_Sound[udg_Level])

How do I convert this to a non-BJ function?

 

[Troll-Brain]

function PlaySoundBJ takes sound soundHandle returns nothing
    set bj_lastPlayedSound = soundHandle
    if (soundHandle != null) then
        call StartSound(soundHandle)
    endif
endfunction

So just use StartSound.

I highly recommend you to use jasscraft, it's really a nice tool for finding jass functions and more.

 

[Mr_Bean]

Thanks. I do have JassCraft. I just didn't know how to do this properly.