[Multiple] Sounds mute/reset after returning from menu

[markanini]

Reporting for posterity. This happens in Duke, Blood and RR. Environment, player, enemy sounds get cut when entering menu, which is normal. However they don't continue when going back out of the menu. Easiest to test with Blood demo loop.

[Graf Zahl]

Just for clarification.

- Is this different from EDuke and NBlood?
- Do looping or repeating sounds get restarted after the menu?

[markanini]

- Is this different from EDuke and NBlood?

Yes, at least in week old nightlies.

- Do looping or repeating sounds get restarted after the menu?

No. I have to re-enter the sector that triggers it.

[Graf Zahl]

Ok. Currently the sounds are just terminated. I think it may be better to pause game sounds while in the menu and restart afterward, that should eliminate these issues.

[sinisterseed]

Although not of much help I think - considering that ambient sounds are broken in SW currently - I checked how VoidSW behaves in this regard and it seems ambient sounds in the level at least keep looping while the menu is open, and the one-liners finish instead of being cut off the moment it's opened.

Sound effects such as explosions do seem to get stopped there when opening the menu though, they don't seem to keep looping or restart after resuming the game.

[sinisterseed]

Update here, regarding one-liners specifically this time:

Opening the menu in Raze while one-liners are playing causes them to be cut off. In EDuke32 and Rednukem opening the menu only pauses the one-liners and they resume correctly after closing it, while in Raze they just stop. In NBlood and VoidSW the one-liners play uninterrupted when opening menus, but that's not exactly optimal. The Duke route seems to be the best to take here.

[Graf Zahl]

Menu now pauses the sound system instead of stopping all sounds.