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[redfox]

Hello,

I'm using the actor.PreloadSound("something1.ogg"); to load a sound before it is used in a scene. This is to stop the scene, actors, music and particles from juddering when the sound is loaded. However, does the preload sound allow for multiple sounds to be loaded, such as actor.PreloadSound("something1.ogg"); actor.PreloadSound("something2.ogg"); etc.?

When I want to play the loaded sounds I am using, actor.PlaySound("something1.ogg"); I have tried this but I still end up with the screen jumping when the sound is played. The document files says to use just actor.PlaySound(); to play the last preloaded sound but I wish to load several.

Thanks

[metamorphium]

I use array for storing preloaded sounds and then referencing them through indices. I have a preload object for it.

I've posted some ideas here:

http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=800.0

[Mnemonic]

An if you're using short sounds very frequently (typically footstep sounds), use WAV files instead. There's a smaller overhead when initializing them compared to ogg.

[redfox]

Ok, thanks for the information and links. I will use more wav files to quick loading short sounds.

Does that mean I can't preload many sounds, onto a global entity, ready for use later? 

[Mnemonic]

Each game object can only hold one preloaded sound. If you need more sounds, you need more objects.

[redfox]

Oh, I see, and thats what metamorphium script does. Thanks for letting me know.