Sound Shader only playing first ogg

[Fidcal]

I am using a speaker entity and the sounds are just environmental so I want it to keep playing one from the list continuously.

 

After much testing and failing to get my first sound shader to work I made a test map and reduced the shader to just two ogg files. It always just plays the first one only whichever way I put them in the shader.

 

I find this on id's site....

 

"The cvar s_maxSoundsPerShader limits the maximum number of sounds that can be in a shader. This is set to 0 (no limit) for high end systems and 1 for low end systems (which means it always plays the first sound in the list)."

 

s_maxSoundsPerShader is set at 0 in my system. Since id says IS and not SHOUD BE then I'm assuming the above means doom detects my system is 'high end' and sets the cvar to 0? It would have to be a pretty low end system if it can't play a few sounds from a list. I have 2GB of RAM. The sound system I have no idea - it came with the PC which is just a few months old.

 

Any suggestions? Here is the test shader...

 

misc_city01

{

volume 20

minDistance 35

maxDistance 35

no_dups

omnidirectional

looping

 

sound/ambient/environmental/churchbell02.ogg

sound/ambient/environmental/machine_noise03_loop.ogg

}

[greebo]

Maybe the "looping" prevents the shader from switching sounds?

[Fidcal]

I tried that before. I tried no looping first actually because the example on the id site didn't have one. But it doesn't repeat then. Alternatively you can put s_looping on the speaker. Either way it would only play the first in the list. And I've not been able to find any DM ones with a list. Maybe I'll have a look through doom's...

[greebo]

Have you tried exchanging the OGG references with something else? Maybe the sounds are too long? Just wildly guessing of course.

[Fidcal]

Yes, I did try different ones - even doom's own sound shaders would only play the first sound in the list for me no matter what I set s_maxSoundsPerShader to.

 

But yes! Just about to give up and use multiple speakers when I found the answer. Looping in the shader or on the speaker just loops the first one (why it doesn't just loop any one of them I don't know) but the answer is to use wait instead. wait does a repeat with a pause between (which I want anyway) Not sure without checking if 1 second is the minimum or if it accepts 0 or a fraction but anyway I can now have multiple sounds! And can use it with random as well.

 

Interesting to note that in Doom's own shaders if they put wav when it should be ogg it still worked. My guess is you don't need the suffix and it will check for both presumably in a certain order so unless one has the same name for both wav and ogg in the same folder (so unlikely as to be never) then it might not matter.

 

So you were right the first time it was to do with looping.

 

Now I can take a break on a high!

[greebo]

Interesting to note that in Doom's own shaders if they put wav when it should be ogg it still worked. My guess is you don't need the suffix and it will check for both presumably in a certain order so unless one has the same name for both wav and ogg in the same folder (so unlikely as to be never) then it might not matter.

Yes, as with the texture files, the extensions seems to be cut off and/or ignored. I also had to find this out by trial back when I wrote the sound preview in DarkRadiant.