Playing sounds

zfoxfire · Dec 2nd 2016

so i wrote a quick plugin to play a sound effect. i noticed so far that only warning_proximity and watermelon_slice effects play where others mentioned in the api such as bear_hunt do not. is it possible to get other sounds working soon and are we only limited to interaction sounds? i tried several ambient and music names but none worked.

Also, a way to kill all sounds within a certain category without knowing the id of the sound events would be helpful. something like killAllSounds("Interaction") would be nice.

red51 · Dec 10th 2016

Well, actually all sounds are working, however, the Player.playGameSound(String soundname) method (which does not take a position parameter) does not work as intended: it is supposed to use the current player position, instead if does not use a position at all (so the sound plays at position 0 0 0). This will be fixed with the next update, in the meantime, just use the Player.playGameSound(String soundname, Vector3f position) method instead
But this only works for sound effects, you can't play music that way.

Btw, also take into account that most sounds have a limited number of playing instances (this is only relevant as long as the sound is actually playing - unless it's a loop sound, it will be released automatically after playing).

About a "killAllSounds()" method, basically we could implement it, but it's getting problematic when using multiple plugins (since such a method would kill all sounds). I think it's better if you just keep a reference to your sound id (it's anyway only necessary for loop sounds)

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