Replacing Internal Sounds

[Radicool]

Hey Hive. I've noticed in my map that there is a problem with imported sounds. I have replaced the Human "no gold"
sound and various others with custom imported sounds. If I play a meele map before my map and the no gold sounds
plays within that meele game, my custom sound will not play in my new map, or vice versa.

I know this has to do with warcraft only loading the sounds once, then you need to reload warcraft to refresh them.
I know this can happen with any unit soundset.

You can try using less common unit soundsets, but they could have already been loaded by somebody in a previous
game and hence not work, or the custom sounds can be carried out to future games. Additionally, I chose certain
soundsets becuase of the variety they have in them (so Im using some common soudsets which amplifies my problem).

My game uses a lot of custom soundsets for various units so its important that they work correctly. Are there any
simple solutions to this whole problem?

 

[rulerofiron99]

Trigger it. It's a lot more work, but you will always get exactly the sound you want.

 

[Radicool]

So turn response sound volume to 0% then create arrays of variables and trigger to play local sounds for each player when they click on multple different types of units?

Won't writing these triggers in GUI be laggier than if it were done the normal way? And that would be a lot of work. Also, I'm not sure how to trigger events like "your town is under siege" sound since it plays when your not looking at your town.

 

[rulerofiron99]

How many custom sounds do you have, exactly?

 

[Radicool]

About 12 units with custom soundsets. Each soundset may have 1-12 sounds in them.

If not more...lol

Edit: I think I counted about 100 imported sounds in the important manager. It would be very harsh to trigger them all?

 

[rulerofiron99]

It would be quite harsh, but it's the only way I can think of.

If you do decide to go this route, remember to array the sounds - makes it much quicker.

 

[Radicool]

It seems possible, but im concerned with any lag that would be involved with creating such a system.
The few triggers which make the system would be fired very frequently (8 players constantly
issuing move, attack and what orders on their units).

I would have to set the 100 or so sounds into variables in map initialization, and hence they are saved into memory.
Would this take up a large chunk of memory? This is what the triggers would look like:

This trigger to register a unit's "yes" orders:

• Unit Response System
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting a point
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order targeting an object
    • Unit - A unit Is issued an order with no target
  • Conditions
  • Actions

This trigger to register a unit's "what" responses:

• Unit What System
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 2 (Blue) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 3 (Teal) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 4 (Purple) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 5 (Yellow) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 6 (Orange) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 7 (Green) Selects a unit
    • Player - Player 8 (Pink) Selects a unit
  • Conditions
  • Actions

Not to mention triggers for the "no gold" and "base is under siege" sounds, etc.

 

[Radicool]

I don't know jass, but pherhaps theres a script I can run at Map Initillization to refresh the Warcraft 3 sounds? Can anyone shed some light on this topic?

 

[Radicool]

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[Radicool]

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