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How to play a sound while an animation is running

erasam

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I have defined the animation for opening a canopy (dragging an handle) and I’m trying to define a sound to be played while the animation is running but currently I’m only able to play a sound at the beginning and at the end of it using <WWISE_EVENT_1> and <WWISE_EVENT_2> tags inside the template call
 
I'm using this standard template ASOBO_GT_Lever_DraggingWheelLeftDrag_Axis to manage the animation
 
You should probably create a sound file that plays for the actual duration of the animation (however many seconds that is). You trigger the sound and then start the animation and the sound should be of enough duration to play until the animation stops.
 
Unfortunately with that drag template you can stop the dragging at any position of the animation therefore you cannot just leave the sound playing
 
Rather than giving a step-by-step advice I would suggest to open wwise and check the DA62 instrument sounds to see how it's done. There's some that use loops which can start/stop/continue as per user input.
 
erasam said:
Unfortunately with that drag template you can stop the dragging at any position of the animation therefore you cannot just leave the sound playing
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Here is how I handle windscreen wipers. They can be stopped at any point (due to either user input or loss of power). Each cycle of the wipers retriggers the sound.

In the sound.xml in the SimVarSounds section:

Code: 
    <Sound WwiseData="true" WwiseEvent="switch_wipers" Continuous="true" FadeOutType = "1" FadeOutTime = "0.1" NodeName="Glareshield" ViewPoint="Inside" LocalVar="sound_wipers" Units="Bool" Index="1">
      <Range LowerBound="0.5"/>
    </Sound>

Continuous will loop the sound until it is stopped.

LocalVar will start the sound when sound_wipers is set to 1. Range LowerBound will stop the sound when sound_wipers is 0. sound_wipers is set to 1 when the wipers are in motion and set to 0 when they stop (this includes when they reach the end of their sweep arc, it is then set to 1 again (after waiting one frame) to retrigger the sound to start again).

It is up to you to write the code that sets your own LocalVar trigger to know when the canopy is in motion or stopped.
 
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