"Component in Progress" for Sounds

huajia2

Just curious if this has been requested before. I can understand why for actions "component reached" and "component complete" work best. But with sounds, it would be kinda nice to be able to have them play with "component in progress". As it is non-ambient sounds (emotes, sound effects, ect) play after the actions involved. IE: a door creaks after it opens, and a person snores/gulps/ect after they've done the set interaction.

eldarth

Yep yep:
01-28-2014 Component Complete on one-time Sound Effects
01-28-2014 Component Complete on one-time Animation Effects

Edit: I don't think you really want "Component in Progress" -- isn't that really "Component Started" -- which is really some other component complete?
Otherwise, how often would Component in Progress trigger an event? every second? half-second? etc.
So, I think you're covered with the two Sound Effect/Animation Complete requests.

dtz

I assume the intention is for the audio to loop while the component is in progress.

bardaaron

Yeah, this would be really nice. I think it's been mentioned before, and I didn't at the time understand what was being suggested, but this is a nice "little" change that would make a big difference on things feeling true.

huajia2

Not sure those two cover what I'm asking. What I want is for their to be a linking option for sound so it plays while an interaction is occuring. If a sound plays when "Component complete", then the player "interacts" with the door, followed by it opening, followed by the "door creak" sound effect. A player clicks on an interactable object, their character does a "sick animation" and then the "emote, vomit" plays. So it's not really wrong because until the animation is done, the selected component isn't "complete", therefore the sound doesn't play yet.

"Component start" would work too. I just feel like when you currently add sound effects to component interactions, it comes across like bad dubbing or lagging sound.

eldarth

Edit: Ah, think I gotcha.

Sounds like you want an event Interaction Start.
Then you could start the Door Creaking, as the Door Push animation was playing.

huajia2

Yes, exactly that. The only way I could think of getting the overlay was to have a "component in progress" like they have "objective in progress", so it would loop over the interaction. I mean, I don't imagine it would be much use for anything but sound, but having that option for sound would be a great.

eldarth

huajia2 wrote: »

I mean, I don't imagine it would be much use for anything but sound, but having that option for sound would be a great.

Sure, how about...
1. Interact Start - door push
2. Start creaking door
3. start falling sparkles
4. Interact Complete door push
5. Crystal Explosion as you muscle through the magical barrier.

huajia2

... you win, that would be pretty cool.