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Keep Sound Player After New Sound is Played

Discussion in 'Audio & Video' started by cjburkey01, Dec 31, 2014.

  1. cjburkey01

    cjburkey01

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    I'm making a gun script, and for an automatic gun the sound gets cut off when the sound is played again.
    So, if I call
    Code (csharp):
    1. source.Play();
    , how do I keep the sound, playing before, playing. So it doesn't chop the sound off and play the new one?
     
    cjburkey01, Dec 31, 2014
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  2. MakeCodeNow

    MakeCodeNow

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    Try AudioSource.PlayOneShot(). That creates a temporary GameObject/AudioSource w/ the specified clip and position, which you could also do yourself if you wanted more control over the sounds (though you probably don't for a machine gun).
     
    MakeCodeNow, Jan 1, 2015
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  3. jerotas

    jerotas

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    PlayOneShot is cool for its "easiness", but it has drawbacks. It is totally "fire and forget", meaning if you have 5 one shots playing on the same Audio Source, you cannot stop any one of them. You only can stop all of them. So I think it's really only useful for very short sounds that would never need to be stopped.
     
    jerotas, Jan 2, 2015
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  4. cjburkey01

    cjburkey01

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    Thank you :)
     
    cjburkey01, Jan 2, 2015
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