I had this same issue. Did you try looping 2.02 second files(or any other time proportional to the DC waits)? I haven't yet, I tried using regular waits.

It's not a problem with the audio files... even badly compressed audio files will play together perfectly. It's an issue with the sound files overlapping (or delaying), so it's an issue with the wait timing inside the triggers.

Edit: Also, no one answered Tikels

Is this sort of thing possible?

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 27 2012, 6:00 am by Leeroy_Jenkins.

Force-typing, no, not really. Setting the sound volume to nothing (to turn it off) and then 100% (to turn it back on) is possible, but that won't stop a WAV that is currently playing. After doing a quick memory search, I didn't find anything obvious that kills or controls the volume of WAVs that are already playing.

There might be a way to kill a WAV in the same manner that CTRL+S does using EUDAs, but I don't know it.

In Laconious' Vile Egression campaign, his missions were very event-based. Each different part of the mission had its own music playing, and when that portion of the mission was over, he displayed a message that said, "Press ESC to continue." Doing so would stop the wav (and the rest of the triggers I guess, as already mentioned), and I assume he used EUDs to figure out when ESC was pressed so that he could initiate the next sequence in the mission. If the player isn't roaming around areas freely, you could so something like that where they can't go to the next area until they press ESC, which would stop the music and allow you to start all the triggers required for the next area.

How does pressing ESC stop the wav?

I don't know, but they do. TF- said this on page 1:

I can confirm when you CTRL S twice it stops the WAV from continuing.
Maybe it is still technically going, but the user hears nothing.

Maybe there is a limit to the amount of WAVs that can be playing simultaneously? If such a limit exists, maybe if you go over the limit it stops all WAVs? Maybe it is possible to do something like that.

Also another issue with death counters is they are effected by lag, which I found out testing my RPG. If there is too much lag my music wouldn't loop properly, there would be a gap of silence proportional to the amount of lag. Same with the drop out box coming up.

Do you mean trigger lag (does that even happen) or do you mean lag between multiple players?

Also, pressing ESC doesnt stop a wav from playing (at least not when I'm doing it).

Lag between multiple players. Internet lag, battlenet lag, connection lag - whatever you want to call it.

I don't know if this is 100%. From my experiences when theres lag the music gets choppy (everything gets choppy/sluggish during lag) but doesnt cause the death counters to be thrown off for the timing of seamless loops. Although I havent used sound files longer than 18 seconds, if you're theory is correct it shouldnt matter though as I should still get a gap proportionate to the lag.

Fortunately it will only throw death counters off so that there's a gap of silence, not the other way so that music is starting too early.

No, it doesn't. I have no idea what demon is talking about.


This is absolutely 100%. Notice if a player starts seriously lagging and the lag box comes up, the music continues to play. The music is unaffected by the lag, the triggers are not.

ESC only works in single-player to stop triggers and sounds.

Well no, he's talking about sound artifacts (ie, noises that shouldn't be there at each transition), not skipping or choppy playing.

In Autocracy RPG, I experienced exactly what he's talking about, when compressing the audio. Otherwise it works perfectly fine.

You can still compress audio with a low file size in a decent sound editor (ableton etc.), and render it as a loop so it will sequence properly.

I think that would just stop more WAVs from playing, but it wouldn't hurt to test it.

I just tested this. Doesn't work. I did find however that constantly playing a wav is a great way to lock up your computer!

Lulz, I forgot ESC is singleplayer only.

Another low-tech solution: use shorter sound loops and have a generic transition sound when music stops and the scene changes, the transition sound should cover up the music suddenly ending.

Is there a way to cut the music precisely to 2.02 or w/e, because I'm just seperating it using the slider which really is not very precise.
If I could do that and retest I hope I would not get any artifacts then.

Which would be great because right now having large WAV chunks are a major aesthetic annoyance for me I do hope this way will work.

When I did this for Super Mario SC, I just found a program online. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=split+audio+file+program

I don't remember what I used, but any program ought to work well enough.

Audacity can get pretty exact with where you split the music. Just zoom in a bunch of times until you can see the tenths and hundredths of seconds on the wav.