How to play a sound (SOLVED)

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#1

I am struggling with how to get a sound to play the manual post doesn’t`` make any sense to me I get what its for but it never actually says how to play a sound or where to put it.

function init(self)
   msg.post("ground/controller#script", "set_speed", { speed = self.speed })
   self.gridw = 0  
   msg.post("play_gated_sound",{ soundcomponent = "/sounds#music", gain = 1.0 })
end

this is what ive got but the sound doesn’t play, I have a game object with sound component all name music, i would love some help please and thank you

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#2

You send the sound component the “play_sound” message.

-- assuming game object "music" has a component "sound"
msg.post("music#sound", "play_sound", {delay = 1, gain = 0.5})

See http://www.defold.com/ref/sound/

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#3

To use your code, you have to create the sound_gate script, and attach that to a sound_gate object. Then it will work. :+1:

It in the last part of the sound section of the sound manual. http://www.defold.com/manuals/sound/

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#4

thank for the help ill give it a try

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#5

I am having the no sound problem, but my setup is much simpler. I have sounds, I send the message above to a script (essentially a blank script, it has the on_message function empty). I put a print statement in the on_message, and it shows that it received the message. But no sound. I have played with gain (documentation very confusing here – gain usually means positive dB, but you can only put negative numbers on the sound component), but I have tried many different variations, even setting the group gain (sound.set_group_gain(“master”, 2.5). The sounds are all .ogg files and work fine in other applications. Is there some setting I am missing?

Mac OSX, playing directly from dmengine. Possibly sounds only work on devices and HTML5?

#6

Nope, works on my Mac at least. Would you mind trying one of these examples on your machine:

#7

Thank you, nothing like an example. Yours worked, and now mine works. I was sending msg to the script on the same go as the sound, but I have to send it directly to the sound, script is irrelevant. I am quite sure the documentation says to post the msg to a script, but I probably misunderstood. Thank you.

#8

Good that you got it working! The documentation for play_sound mentions that the message should be posted to the sound component:

“Post this message to a sound-component to make it play its sound.”