At 12:23 PM -0600 2/13/01, Steffanie Grindle wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I'm still having trouble with this. I have been working on trying
>to get the cue points that I have set to work. Here are the scripts
>that I'm using to activate my cue points....
>(behavior script)
>global gCurrentCue, gWhichCuePoint
>on exitFrame
>if(isPastCuePoint(sound 1,(getAt(gWhichCuePoint, gCurrentCue)))= 1) then
>go to the frame + 1
>set gCurrentCue=gCurrentCue + 1
>else
>go to the frame
>end if
>end
>
>(Movie script)
>global gWhichCuePoint, gCurrentCue
>on startMovie
>gWhichCuePoint=["recruitment chair","organize", "delegate", "motivate"]
>gCurrentCue=1
>end
>
>These work great for the 1st sound file and the 4 cue points which
>are set. They activate just like they are suppose to, but whenever
>I add the second or third sound files along with their cue point
>names, nothing happens. The cues are not activated. I'm not sure
>what I'm doing wrong. Could it be that the cue point is set too
>close to the beginning of the file?
>
Steffanie,
I use cue points all the time, but in a much more simple and general
way. First, there is no need for a movie script - and secondly,
instead of "polling" for a cue point to see if you have passed it,
you can be "event driven" and react when you reach a cue point.
Here's how:
I typically have large sounds kept as external sound files. These
sounds are typically kept in a folder called "Sounds". Then whenever
I want to start a sound playing, I build the full file name of the
sound file (based on "the moviePath") and issue a: sound playFile 1,
theFullFileName
Then in the next frame in the score where I might want to wait for a
cue point, I would have a script like this:
on exitFrame me
go to the frame
end
on cuePassed me
-- Director calls this handler when a cue point is reached in
your sound file
go to the frame + 1
end
This handles the case where you just want to wait in the score and
move to the next frame when you hit a cue point. But if you want to
keep track of the cuePointNumber and/or name, or you are using
multiple sound channels, there are other parameters you can specify:
on cuePassed me, channelID, cuePointnumber, cuePointName
-- channelID is the sound channel number where the cue point happened
-- cuePointNumber is just that, the cue point number
-- cuePointName is the name of the cue point that was reached
-- you can do whatever you want with these, store them away in
globals if you wish
end
Good luck,
Irv
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