I’ve searched around and can’t seem to find an answer to this.
I would like to start playing a sound (which is looped) at a random time within the audio file. Essentially, I have a nice looping machine gun sound, but if you burst fire, you always hear the first segment of the loop. If I could get it to start play at random times, it wouldn’t sound as repetitive. I already have a ‘start’ sound to cover up the start of the loop sound.
Is there any way to do this within the sound cue? Here is my current cue.
And what you could do like it shows is add a delay and at different times. And what happens is that the random node will randomly select (obviously) which sound to play after the delay time. But I would advise to duplicate the gun loop. I’m not sure if doing it the way it shows will work, I didn’t test it. I just put it together so you could see what to use. I hope this is what you needed and helps.
This was the first thing I considered, but because the gun loop is about 4 seconds long, I didn’t want to have more than one copy in memory, which is the only way I’d be able to do it. Using delays would slightly off-set where the loop sound came in, but not enough to keep burst-firing from sounding repetitive.
Here is a video demonstrating the problem:
I’m going to experiment with triggering the start and looping sounds within the blueprint instead of a cue, as I think I saw an option to chose how far into the clip to start. I’ll report back with any results.
I know this is an old post but here’s the answer in case anyone’s still looking.
Make sure your sound cue component is NOT set to “Auto-activate,” then use something like this to pick a random start time and call the “play” node in Blueprints.
NOTES:
If you have a looping sound and want to get the duration to pick a random start time, you’ll need to add a variable reference to the original, non-looping sound wave file, NOT the looping sound cue used in your audio component. You see this in the image below… looping sound cues will just return a default duration of 10000.
I did this from the level blueprint, but I assume making your sound actor into a blueprint or attaching it to a blueprint actor and doing it directly in there would work just as well.
I have kind of the opposite issue. I need a sound to be looped, but triggered randomly using a delay… the problem is the sound starts sometimes mid point because of the looping. How could I set it up so it always start the sound from the start? Sorry for doing this on your post, but I can seem to find the answer anywhere.
