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Creating sound effects. example onCollision?

by Karl Jahnke · in Torque Game Builder · 10/11/2007 (10:21 am) · 2 replies

I just can not seem to wrap my head around the creating sound effects on an event. I don't really understand Datablocks all that much either and all the tutorials seem to call for sounds thru a datablock.
What i am hoping for is to create a sound effect similar to creating new sprites. i.e. :

%sprite = new t2dImageMap
{
2dSceneWindow = %this.scenegraph
}

Thanks for any help you can offer. I am slowly getting the hang of this scripting stuff, but its all new to me.
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Torque Owner Dmitriy Stukalov
#1
10/11/2007 (10:21 pm)
The TGB sound engine is very simple!
Probably it is very hard for you to understand sounds because you are artist (not a programer).

Well, create the file sound.cs. Put into the file the code below.

//Non looping sound datablock
new AudioDescription(SoundNonLooping)
{
   volume = 1.0;
   isLooping = false;
   is3D = false;
   type = $GuiAudioType;
};

// Looping sound datablock (for music or ambient sounds)
new AudioDescription(SoundLooping)
{
   volume = 1.0;
   isLooping = true;
   is3D = false;
   type = $GuiAudioType;
};


// This function will load nonlooping sound from file and set the sound name to use in your game
function loadNonLoopingSound(%sound_name, %file_name)
{
   new AudioProfile(%sound_name)
   {
      filename = %file_name;
      description = "SoundNonLooping";
      preload = true;
   };
}


// This function will load looping sound from file and set the sound name to use in your game
function loadLoopingSound(%sound_name, %file_name)
{
   new AudioProfile(%sound_name)
   {
      filename = %file_name;
      description = "SoundLooping";
      preload = true;
   };
}


// In this place you will insert the path to your sounds and it names
loadNonLoopingSound("MyCoolSound1", "MyCoolGame/data/audio/gui/my_cool_sound_1.wav");
loadNonLoopingSound("MyCoolSound2", "MyCoolGame/data/audio/gui/my_cool_sound_2.wav");

...

loadLoopingSound("MyCoolMusic", "MyCoolGame/data/audio/gui/my_cool_music.wav");

...

Add to your game.cs the line below

exec("./sound.cs");

Now you are able to start your sounds from any place of your game!
For nonlooping sounds:

alxPlay("MyCoolSound1");

For looping souns:
$music =  alxPlay("MyCoolMusic"); 

...

  alxStop($music);

Best regards!

EDIT: Close bracket for code area :)

Torque Owner Karl Jahnke
#2
10/12/2007 (8:00 pm)
Thank you for the help! And you accually helped me gett a little better understanding of the datablock thing too. =)