Preloading music

[Chaosy]

I tried to preload music to make it start instantly when I want it.

• play
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Preload Farewell.mp3
    • Game - Begin preloading with a 0.00 second timeout

• play Copy
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 5.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: xxx
    • Sound - Play Farewell <gen>

The message is shown and the music starts 1 second later :-/

 

[Abovegame]

Maybe you have to stop all music first ?

Or your 1 sec delay is in the file itself?

 

[Chaosy]

Nope, the file got sound right from the getgo.

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Also my bad, it is used as a sound and not actually music.
I tried this though but it did not work.

• Actions
  • Game - Display to (All players) the text: xxx
  • Sound - Stop (Last played sound) Immediately
  • Sound - Stop Farewell <gen> Immediately
  • Sound - Play Farewell <gen>

 

[Arad MNK]

Nope, the file got sound right from the getgo.

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Also my bad, it is used as a sound and not actually music.
I tried this though but it did not work.

• Actions
  • Game - Display to (All players) the text: xxx
  • Sound - Stop (Last played sound) Immediately
  • Sound - Stop Farewell <gen> Immediately
  • Sound - Play Farewell <gen>

Audacity image X)

I have no idea why your even is 5 sec and the music starts in 1 sec... but try to move your camera around to see if you are lagging or not.

Sounds can be preloaded if you play and then stop them (and not destroying the handle, unlike GUI) afaik.

I'm not sure if this will help but I've seen this preloading functions to create text files in your drive (used in Save-load systems)...

 

[Chaosy]

No it starts one second after the message is shown. So after 6 seconds.

I tried what you said.

• play
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 0.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Sound - Play Farewell <gen>
    • Sound - Stop Farewell <gen> Immediately

• play Copy
  • Events
    • Time - Elapsed game time is 5.00 seconds
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Game - Display to (All players) the text: xxx
    • Sound - Play Farewell <gen>

Did not work.

 

[Arad MNK]

You can do something smart and set the event to "Time - Elapsed game time is 4.00 seconds" but as a reason, you can check for possible lags. I'll look the BJ function to see if there's a wait.

EDIT: There isn't.

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

It's pretty hypothetical that 4 lines run in a second. The problem might be from the native.

 

[Abovegame]

Well in this trigg sound doesn't have delay.When i try :
Sound - Play Sound // doesn't even start

 

[Arad MNK]

Well in this trigg sound doesn't have delay.When i try :
Sound - Play Sound // doesn't even start

Check if the sound in the sound editor is 3D or not.

 

[Abovegame]

 

[Chaosy]

That does not work for me either.

The reason it does not have a delay is because my file is 6 mb which is a lot bigger than the default wc3 ones.

 

[Emm-A-]

Nope, the file got sound right from the getgo.

img

From this audacity image, I would indeed say, you actually got your 1 sec delay at the beginning of the track. Try to delete this tiny flat bit in audactity and run the track again in wc3 - Its hard to tell without a time scale whether this is the reason for the lag or not ...

 

[Chaosy]

Yeah that fixed it. I just had to zoom in a shitload to see it. Thanks.