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Yingzi Xue
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Join date: 11 Jun 2008
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09-05-2008 21:10
I have a clock I needed to work out sound timing for. I wanted to add chimes, so what I did was chop it into 10 second pieces and then use llSleep for the appropriate pause. I've had the clock running for a few months now and I've noticed that it will play the chime correctly about 65 percent of the time, but lag causes the chime to not complete sometimes and other times it causes the chime to be slightly off. I haven't tried Mono yet, but I'm hoping it chimes better. We'll see.
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Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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09-06-2008 22:16
*splits thread and retitles*
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Ruthven Willenov
Darkness in your light
Join date: 16 Jan 2008
Posts: 965
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09-06-2008 22:23
I have a clock I needed to work out sound timing for. I wanted to add chimes, so what I did was chop it into 10 second pieces and then use llSleep for the appropriate pause. I've had the clock running for a few months now and I've noticed that it will play the chime correctly about 65 percent of the time, but lag causes the chime to not complete sometimes and other times it causes the chime to be slightly off. I haven't tried Mono yet, but I'm hoping it chimes better. We'll see. have you checked out the library clock script? it preloads the sounds a minute before the time it's supposed to go off, so as long as you are in the area when it preloads the sound, you should hear it correctly at the correct time |
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Winter Ventura
Eclectic Randomness
Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
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09-06-2008 22:29
Unfortunately, your problem isn't script speed. The issue is download speed. longer clips take longer to download than shorter clips.
When each sound is triggered, your client starts to download that clip. If it's playing poorly, it's probably because it's finishing downloading the smaller section before the starting section is done. And of course.. after an hour has gone by, the sounds tend to get unloaded bby the cache, and have to be redownloaded. There's a function called "llPreloadSound".. but I'm not sure that's really your problem. Honestly, to me, all multi-part sound applications end up sounding bad. I would suggest either 1. making shorter chimes that don't take longer than 10 seconds, or 2. make a single chime for each tone, and then SCRIPT the chime playing by trigering 4, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Quarters), or 3. ditching the westminster-style chiming, and go with a single-tone chime. I'd add a second script whose job it was, to preload the chime sound about 15-30 seconds before it's going to be used. _____________________
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Wyatt Weatherwax
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Join date: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 59
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Just tolling the hour script
09-20-2008 06:11
Along these lines, I just want a script that tolls the hour. I've tried to modify the Library script located here by either removing the ChimeA and ChimeB or five 0.0 as the sound volume. In all cases the Bonging part never plays by itself. So, does anyone have a script that just will chime the hours?
Thanks so much |