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[Mez]

Hey,
I'm currently making a game in Wintermute and I have a very meticulous sound guy who has a problem with the in game looping (through PlayMusic() and PlayMusicChannel() ).
Just by the end, before the music starts again, there's a small audible cut which drives him insane.

Our solution was to cross fade two channels with the same music back and forth when they are over.
This is going to be a whole lot more work to get every different music clip in the various places to loop correctly.

Is there any other way to fade music or to loop it without the annoying cut?

[metamorphium]

It's a matter of the sound-person. He should create a seamless transition in the sound itself. Wme-wise you can use file preloading to be sure there's no gap. Worked for me, but still the most important part is to the sound work properly.

[Mez]

How would I preload a file like that?
It would please my sound guy to not have to "destroy" his work.

[metamorphium]

you should use LoadSound / PlaySound (with loop on) feature. Look it up in entity documentation.

[Mez]

Thanks for the responses.

However, if I pre-load it as a Sound I am unable to crossfade into the next music, correct?

This will be a problem when zoning into new areas as the only way I know how to crossfade is through using PlayMusicChannel().

He is very violent and is in the possession of a wide variety of arms. The harsh life of a game developer.

[metamorphium]

well, crossfade is nothing else than decreasing volume of one sound while increasing the volume of the other sound at the same time. So if you eg. have 2 global entities with preloaded sounds, you can do crossfade this way:

Code: WME Script

1.  
2. method crossFade()
3. {
4.    for (var a=0;a<100;a=a+1)
5.    {
6.       sndEntity1.SetSoundVolume(100-a);
7.       sndEntity2.SetSoundVolume(a);
8.       Sleep(10);
9.    }
10. }
11.  

if you place this into game.script, you can simply call Game.crossFade();
or am I missing something?

[Mnemonic]

In any case, there shouldn't be any cuts in looping music. Make sure the cut is not part of the sound file.

[Mez]

Yeah, it wasn't a fault in the engine, as long as you make perfect looping songs it's not a problem.
Thanks for the help anyways!