Still learning how to handle leaks..

[Couchking]

I have a spell that will be used a ton throughout the game.
It can be used by multiple players.
I want a specific sound to play when the spell is cast, but I don't want it to leak.

If in an initiation trigger I set a variable like this:

• Set RushSound = DefendCaster <gen>

with DefendCaster <gen> being a sound that is uploaded into the map as a sound file, when I use it in the trigger as:

• Sound - Play RushSound at 100.00% volume, attached to RushUnit[(Player number of (Triggering player))]

Does that create a leak every time I play the sound? Even if I am using the same variable set with the one sound? How do I destroy or clear the leak after I play it if this is the case?

Or do I not need to set the variable at all? Can I just have it be:

• Sound - Play DefendCaster <gen> at 100.00% volume, attached to RushUnit[(Player number of (Triggering player))]

????

+rep for help!

 

[b_a_d]

If your using a global variable you dont need to clear the variable because global variables dont leak sence the variable is not removed until the end of the game. But you shouldnt use just the sound in your last line that will leak.

 

[Kwah]

Sounds don't leak.

 

[Igor_Z]

That is not leaked because as hawk said sounds don't leak... Only points, special effects and groups leak... Read some tutorials i think that isn't so hard

 

[Shadow Daemon]

Sinks Things that leak

 

[Couchking]

I pulled this directly from the tutorial linked right above, the stickied post on this website:



"Sounds
Also sounds leak, they should be destroyed like this:

Sound

• Events
• Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
• Conditions
• (Ability being cast) Equal to Some Spell
• Actions
• Sound - Play (Some Sound)
• Sound - Destroy (Last played sound)

"

Says right there that sounds leak, yet two of you say they don't. Is this well respected thread wrong? Can someone please give me some valid input? Is it just sounds that are created from scratch each time they are used as opposed to when you set a specific variable to a specific sound and you plan on using it repeatedly?

 

[Kwah]

Ah. In that case you're doing good. Everytime you use that action, it leaks.

 

[Couchking]

Hawk, you're still not helping me at all...

 

[Kwah]

You need to clear the leak everytime you use it.

 

[Couchking]

So do I need to set the sound variable, play the sound, and then destroy it over and over to prevent leaks?

• Set RushSound = DefendCaster <gen>
• Sound - Play RushSound at 100.00% volume, attached to RushUnit[(Player number of (Triggering player))]
• Sound - Destroy RushSound

 

[Skullclaimer]

That is how it works with locations, units and special effects so I'm willing to bet that is how it is with sounds as well.