Pause sounds on game pause

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:21 am

Is there any reason why sounds don't pause when you pause the game? You could just walk through the sound channels and call FSOUND_SetPause(i,1); on every sound channel and vice-versa on unpause.

This would make it a lot easier to sync cutscenes with music. Perhaps a PlaySyncSound() ACS command should be added?

Post by **Nash** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:25 am

I agree. Sounds and music should pause along with the Pause button, and resume where it stopped after unpausing.

Same goes for the menu too.

Maybe some options to define whether a sound or music is paused when the menu is open. This is to make sure the original behaviour of Doom is retained when the menu is open.

Post by **Caligari87** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:42 am

As long as it's a mapinfo flag or something, so that individual WADs wouldn't be borked.

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:25 am

Bio Hazard wrote:You could just walk through the sound channels and call FSOUND_SetPause(i,1); on every sound channel and vice-versa on unpause.

While I do like the idea, I don't think it would be that simple. How would you play the menu sounds when the game was paused?

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:33 pm

Then don't pause the menu sound channel.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:31 pm

So is this going happen or what? I really need it for KDiZD.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:37 pm

The fact that some people 'need' certain features hasn't done anything for ZDoom so far. See .96x for a perfect example...

ace · Post by **ace** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:59 pm

Yes, but weren't two or three features added specifically for projects that needed them? They were important ones nonetheless IIRC, but still I do remember Randy posting something about a case like that...

Though the chances of it being incorporated for a quick new version soon would be ridiculous though, I assume. Still sounds useful though.

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:23 pm

GetLevelInfo was specifically added for KDIZD. (thanks again!)

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:45 am

I was thinking of GZD or 98x more specifically. I already knew that Randy probably not get around to it for a long time.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:18 am

Sorry to bring this up again, but I seriously need something like this. I have tried so many ways to get this to work, but I haven't managed to hack anything that works. I have got to have it for KDiZD and several timed cutscenes in another project of mine.

If I could just get the source to compile, I could try to make a patch, but I'm not able to (even with MinGW).

I don't even care if it's in mainstream ZDoom any time soon, I need it in GZD or 98x at least!

I have also thought about implementation, I think it should be a sndinfo option instead of an ACS function.

Anyway, sorry again to bring this up once more.

skadoomer · Post by **skadoomer** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:29 pm

a soundinfo lump makes much more sense thn adding it via ACS. Unfortunatly because of the state of things in zdoom, unless you write the addition yourself it probabily won't get added.

Post by **randi** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:51 pm

Done.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:10 am

OMFG

I want to test! I don't care how buggy it is!
Gimmie an EXE! :S :S

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:22 am

Don't you have a compiler yourself?

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