Choplifter (de)remake

[wiebowParticipant]

So, this is almost done!  Porting it to Monkey2 has been interesting, but overall, not a big problem! The game is completely ported and performing great!

I have one problem though, and it’s with audio, on Linux. Sometimes, after a while, sound stops working.   Is there anyone out there with some experience with this?

Should I reserve channels? Is there a limit to the amount of channels I can use before something craps out?

What is interesting is that the heli reserves a channel (for the motor pop pop sound) and when all other sound stops, this sound does keep working.  Until I die and I create a new heli (and reserve a new channel) and then this channel also does not work.

I have not yet tested this build on Windows (will do that tomorrow) but this issue is also something that nagged me when using Max on Linux.

Any help is appreciated!!!!

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[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

> I have one problem though, and it’s with audio, on Linux.

Have to see the code before I could even make a guess! Hint, hint…

[wiebowParticipant]

Hint understood… Here you go

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12644619/choplifter.zip

You’ll need the latest repository version of my framework, I added some stuff to it lately.

It’s a straight port from Max code, so you’ll probably see a lot of stuff that can be done better or more efficiently. I’m open for suggestions (from anyone really who also grabs this zip)

[wiebowParticipant]

Testing this on Windows 7 now, and I have the same issue… Sound stops working while playing.

I hope you can replicate this, Mark

[JesseParticipant]

I tried it and it works good. I didn’t have any problems on my Macbook. I was never a big fan of Chop Lifter but from what I tried it seems pretty good. No issues with sound. Tried it About 30 minutes.

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

You’ll need the latest repository version of my framework, I added some stuff to it lately.

Can you do a module manager update for this, or is not ready yet?

[wiebowParticipant]

@jesse: Thanks for giving it a go!

@Mark I uploaded the new version to the module manager!

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

OK, the main problem with the audio is that you’re not discarding channels, and it looks like openalsoft has a hard max channels limit (although not macos openal?).

Basically, if you New() a channel, you’re also expected to Discard() it.

The Sound.Play method does this automatically (ie: once the sound finishes playing, the channel is auto-discarded) but this doesn’t easily let you setup rate, pan etc before the sound plays.

One option would be to add a bunch of params to Sound.Play, but this seems messy and not very future proof so a better way may be to add something like ChannelFlags that let you specify ‘AutoDiscard’ or something. Will have a look…

Thanks for uploading the  new module too – got to make sure it works with the next ‘release’!

[Matthew SmithParticipant]

Very nice!! Plays very well!

[wiebowParticipant]

He Mark,

Thanks for that explanation, it makes a lot of sense and it explains why sound stopped earlier once I got to the later levels

I’ve hacked this together in my PlaySound() function and it works fine. It’s not pretty but it fixes the immediate need:

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If channel = Null channel = sound.Play() channel.Volume = volume channel.Rate = rate channel.Pan = pan Else channel.Volume = volume channel.Rate = rate channel.Pan = pan channel.Play(sound) Endif

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If channel = Null channel = sound.Play() channel.Volume = volume channel.Rate = rate channel.Pan = pan Else channel.Volume = volume channel.Rate = rate channel.Pan = pan channel.Play(sound) Endif

I wasn’t in the mood to write a manager that will reserve channels and monitors them if they can be discarded yes or no, and I’ll wait for your channel parameters.

Suggestion: make every channel auto discard by default… Makes a lot of sense to me, but possibly only after you’ve made altering the parameters possible

 

@Matthew: Nice! Thanks man, glad you like it.

 

Oh! I need to add the gamepad control checks!

[coconParticipant]

Wow! You provided us the whole game, lots of thanks.

[wiebowParticipant]

@cocon: guess I did!

It’s not 100% done yet. I need to add some joypad control checks and then I need builds for Windows, Linux and OSX. Anyone here who can build on OSX for me?

[JesseParticipant]

here is a link to the Mac binaries:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7cdbqrmls0euhuj/Monkey%202%20Game.app.zip?dl=0

[wiebowParticipant]

Hi Jesse, that’s very nice of you! I will update the source though to include some final refinements. Are you will to do it again?  I will send the new source to you.

And did you play it?  Did you use gamepads or controllers? or the keyboard?

[JesseParticipant]

> Are you will to do it again?
yes, when ever you want.

I played it without controls. Didn’t bother to pull my controller from the box where I have all of my computer stuff so I used the keyboard.

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