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AsparagusTrevor Mine's a pint of the black stuff Registered 20/08/2002 Points 2364	24th November, 2004 at 21:29:57 - I've come to a point in Zombies Now where preciseness (or 'precision' to normal people) is paramount. I have my zombies moaning 5 different wav sounds. What I want to happen is the moan to be chosen randomly at random intervals, but I want the frequency of the random intervals to be dependent on the number of zombies. In other words, the more zombies there is, the more moaning. I know how to do this in rough fashion, but I'd rather it be precise to the number of zombies. So does anyone know a magical equation that could help me out, or just some kinda cool method I could use? Thanks in advance. Edited by the Author.
Radix hot for teacher Registered 01/10/2003 Points 3139	24th November, 2004 at 21:54:01 - Yeah. Have an event that randomly decides whether or not to play a sound and which one, ie set some value to random(50), with values 1,2,3,4,5 playing a zombie noise and resetting it to 0, and values 6-49 doing nothing. Stick the trigger for this event in a fastloop (with the condition that none of these noises are playing) and then: every 00"-30 (or whatever) - Start loop [whatever] for NObjects( "zombies" ) loops Add em, if you've got more'n one zombie object: every 00"-30 (or whatever) - Start loop [whatever] for (NObjects( "zomb1" )+NObjects( "zomb2 )+NObjects( "zomb3" )) loops Edit: Tpyos, oh and values 1-5 would each play a different noise, obviously. Edited by the Author. n/a
AsparagusTrevor Mine's a pint of the black stuff Registered 20/08/2002 Points 2364	24th November, 2004 at 22:03:41 - Thanks a lot dude, I'll try that. Never even thought of using fastloops for it. I do actually have 5 zombie objects, but they're grouped as Enemies, so it should be okay. EDIT: That works great, cheers. Edited by the Author.
jast Registered 03/01/2014 01:12:19 Points 186	25th November, 2004 at 02:11:43 - You could just set an alterable value of the zombie to some random value and play the sound each time the alt val is = 0. Easy. n/a
AsparagusTrevor Mine's a pint of the black stuff Registered 20/08/2002 Points 2364	25th November, 2004 at 09:59:18 - I tried that actually, but it didn't seem to work. I dunno if it was because I have 5 different zombie sprites or what, or cos I'm using Tigerwork's Directsound for positional audio. Edited by the Author.

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