How to determine if sound has finished playing

[Budboy]

Hello, noob question here.

Is there a way to determine via scripting that a sound that I previously played has finished playing??

Thanks in advance!

[100GPing100]

I never worked with sound actors, but maybe you can use the property Duration (float Duration (native, const)). Make something like a timer and when you make the sound play, activate the timer that will increase the value of a new variable. If the new variable's value is equal to Duration the sound has ended.

[Budboy]

So basically you would have to know how long the sound is, hrm.

While I could see it working, it's gonna be quite a hassle to time the sounds I would play lol

[meowcat]

Try using the function GetSoundDuration (defined in actor.uc) to grab the duration of the sound that is going to be played.

[100GPing100]

That is what I was talking about. There is a variable in the class Sound that holds the duration of the sound.

So you would have your sound variable:

var sound MySound;

Set in default properties for the package, groupd and file:

DefaultProperties
{
     MySound=Sound'MyPackage.MyGroup.MySound'
}

Then you would be able to know the duration of the sound with:

MySound.Duration;

[Budboy]

ohhhhh I see i see...I didn't know that the sound class had a public property for duration lol

I also didn't knew there was a getsoundduration either...interesting.

I'm guessing I should use that level.seconds or level.timeinseconds or whatever it is( that method or property that gives you the time in seconds of which the name I can't remember) then equate it if it's already equal to the duration or something to that extent

anyway, thanks you two!

[Wormbo]

The Duration property might be invalid for ProceduralSounds and SoundGroups. GetSoundDuration() probably is the way to go, though keep in mind it returns real time seconds, while functions like Sleep() expect game seconds. You will have to scale by Level.TimeDilation there.