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runningonair
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posted 03-07-2001 01:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm having problems getting a CD track to repeat. I can get one to trigger no problem but when I set the bits to repeat (6 times), like the manual says, it still only plays once.

Has anyone else tried this and got it to work?

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runningonair
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posted 03-08-2001 07:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No one has any ideas?

Reb, do you have any ideas? I'll gladly look at the examples if you can tell me which ones.

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Colin Grigson
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posted 03-08-2001 03:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Colin Grigson   Click Here to Email Colin Grigson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you want it to repeat indefinitely, you could change it in script.dat. Would that help?

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posted 03-09-2001 03:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You mean the background sound?

No it's an alarm sound that I want to reapeat a number of times and then stop.

I would be interested in changing the background sound halfway through the level, but I don't think it's possible.

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Colin Grigson
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posted 03-09-2001 05:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Colin Grigson   Click Here to Email Colin Grigson     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You could make the sample file into the alarm sounding as many times as you need. Does mean a bigger file tho, or use a number of triggers as long as Lara is sliding so she can't help but trigger them. The only way I know of changing the background fx is to do a level jump.

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posted 03-09-2001 06:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes I had thought of that but wanted to avoid the extra file size. I may do it anyway.

Thanks

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posted 03-09-2001 09:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Pytr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What do you mean with the background sound?
The sound file that is written after the load camera line in the script? (102 and on)
'cos you can easily overrule this with a normal cd trigger.
I also had like 102 outside and 108 inside buildings.
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runningonair
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posted 03-09-2001 09:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Pytr:
What do you mean with the background sound?
The sound file that is written after the load camera line in the script?
Pytr.


Yes, the one that plays all the time.

What I want is to trigger a CD and then have the new CD track repeat a certain number times and then go back to the "background" sound (CD). The manual tells you how to do it, up to 6 repeats. But It doesn't work, or at least, I can't get it to work, it only ever plays once.

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posted 03-09-2001 03:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for semitonic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
this is only a theory, i may be wrong

could it be that entering say six allows the track to be triggered six times by seperate triggers, not actually repeat six times. Because certainly i've never got a track to repeat, but i think i noticed that i could trigger a track more than once after i'd been fiddlin with them OCBs

then again, as someone often says

i could be wrong

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posted 03-10-2001 04:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by semitonic:
this is only a theory, i may be wrong

could it be that entering say six allows the track to be triggered six times by seperate triggers, not actually repeat six times. Because certainly i've never got a track to repeat, but i think i noticed that i could trigger a track more than once after i'd been fiddlin with them OCBs


semitonic


I don't think so. You might be talking about the sound effects? Which could be another way of doing it. The CD triggers are just that. So you can trigger them as often as you like. But the supossed repeat function dosn't seem to work. I'm still hopeing that I'm just doing it wrong.

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posted 03-12-2001 12:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Reb@Eidos   Click Here to Email Reb@Eidos     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I never had a chance to put this to the test..the info in the manual was as given us by Core, but I assumed it meant to set six triggers on the same square, each with a different bit configuration as outlined in the manual. Is that what you tried? I hope I will have the opportunity soon to try this myself to see if I can get it to work. In the meantime, let us know if you are successful!!

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posted 03-13-2001 09:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MagPlus   Click Here to Email MagPlus     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by runningonair:
I'm having problems getting a CD track to repeat. I can get one to trigger no problem but when I set the bits to repeat (6 times), like the manual says, it still only plays once.

Has anyone else tried this and got it to work?



what the manual says is not so wrong as it seems. Here's what you have to do :

- Select a square and trigger a CD track. Press the 1 code bit.

- Select another square somewhere in your level and trigger the same CD track. Press the 2 code bit.

- Select another square anywhere in your level and trigger the same CD track. Press the 3 code bit.

etc...

If you want your CD track played 4 times, the fourth trigger must have 4-5 code bits set.

If you want your CD track played 3 times, the third trigger must have 3-4-5 code bits set.

If you have already made this, and want to put another time the CD track, don't forget to change the code bits of the previous trigger.

By this way, you can trigger 5 times a same CD track.

Hope it will help you.

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inchdix
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posted 03-14-2001 03:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for inchdix     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Doesn't the manual say to just have code bit 5 set to get the track to repeat 6 times? Is this what you are doing or are all code bits highlighted?

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robbase
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posted 03-14-2001 09:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for robbase     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
hey I know the software is pretty expensive, but what about using sound forge or something similar to loop the track as many times as you like. and resave as one file. I don,t think file length would be to much of an issue as some of the wavs in that folder are quite long like tracks from old fmv clips.
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I'm trying to get my hands on a copy now. if it works out I would be willing to modify your files and send them back.

[This message has been edited by robbase (edited 03-14-2001).]

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posted 03-15-2001 01:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by inchdix:
Doesn't the manual say to just have code bit 5 set to get the track to repeat 6 times? Is this what you are doing or are all code bits highlighted?


Yes, That's what I'm doing but it doesn't work.

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posted 03-15-2001 02:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for runningonair   Click Here to Email runningonair     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by robbase:
hey I know the software is pretty expensive, but what about using sound forge or something similar to loop the track as many times as you like. and resave as one file. I don,t think file length would be to much of an issue as some of the wavs in that folder are quite long like tracks from old fmv clips.
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I'm trying to get my hands on a copy now. if it works out I would be willing to modify your files and send them back.

[This message has been edited by robbase (edited 03-14-2001).]


Yes, that could be done and I have the software to do it too. Thanks for the offer.

But the manual say's it can be done. So I'm just wondering why it doesn't work.

What would be useful is, if someone else could try it out? Maybe I'm missing something obvious, I usually do.

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