Precaching Sound

What would be a good way to precache sounds ie let the sound files silently load on visitor's viewers before they reach the point where the sound is called for?


good example.. Doors.. unless you already have the sound loaded.. you go.. you click or whatever your fancy script does, .. the door opens.. no sound.. then 10 seconds later.. delayyyyyyyed and out of synch sound..

Check out the LSL Command "llPreloadSound( )". It does this. But the problem is you need to trigger it as part of an event that interacts with the user, and you need to add a "sleep" after it that is as long as the sound itself. So you could do something like this:

llPreloadSound( chimeA ); // First 10 sec of top-of-hour chimes
llSleep(10);

and then do whatever was supposed to play that sound.

I don't think it will work to have it preload when the item is rezzed, as the preload needs to interact with the person who should hear it? Not sure. I know that when I used this in my clock script to elimibate the delay, I ended up having it preload the sounds one minute before they would be used. Then when called, they played smoothly.

I am thinking about playing them silently near the tp point so they are loaded. Sounds are not dependent on specific user interaction so if someone in the area triggers a sound, you hear it too.

Might need to find a wav player that will play a series of wavs in a loop