Make an ambient sound get quieter?

[Enjay]

Maybe scripting, maybe mapping, maybe something else entirely.

What is the best way to have an ambient sound get quieter - i.e.fade out?

I want this for a closing map (like a TITLEMAP at the end of the game). The map itself is just a simple box. An ACS script shows a series of images that fade from one to the other. The player start spot is surrounded on 4 sides by looping ambient sound objects (ednum 14065 things with ambient sounds defined in SNDINFO). I have placed them like this because it means that the different sounds come from different angles. The sounds themselves are quite long.

As the graphics change, I want the sounds to get quieter and quieter and eventually fade out entirely. Is there a way to fade them programmatically (using ACS) or would I be best just to make duplicates of the sounds (the sounds are also used in a proper map) and fade the sound files out?

[Blue Shadow]

The answer is to use [wiki]SoundVolume[/wiki] in a loop.

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for (int vol = 0.95; vol > 0; vol -= 0.05)
{
    SoundVolume(<tid>, CHAN_BODY, vol); // Ambient sounds actors play their sounds on the 'body' channel.
    Delay(35);
}

[Enjay]

Aha! That certainly looks like it should work. "SoundVolume" eh? I didn't even realise that was a thing.

I'm away for a few days as of tomorrow but I'll try it when I get back.

Thank you kindly.