Setting up ambient sounds with a day/night cycle

Monster-WolfRed · May 28, 2020, 8:34am

Hi everyone!

I am currently have issues trying to get ambient sounds playing during my day/night cycle. I can get the correct sounds to play at the correct time however they never stop playing and end up overlapping each other. I have tried a few things suggested but I haven’t managed to get it working correctly.

These are my day/night cycles (currently working fine) and the last is my current attempt at setting up an ambient sound to match time of day (e.g. birds during the day, crickets during the night)

Thank you in advance!

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 9:02am

Like this ( I have a feeling of deja vu ):

And finally:

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 9:38am

No worries, just come back if you get stuck!

BTW, if you think it looks like a bit of a fiddle, take a look at this ( below ), I tried it with the do once nodes! ( it works but still generates one null variable error ):

Monster-WolfRed · May 28, 2020, 9:34am

Yeah, sorry about reposting this, I tried to set up what you showed me orignally but i had no luck.

I will give this a try.

Thank you!!

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 10:13am

Hi - it’s the lack of target that’s causing the problem. Drag the pin from the sound playing variable and look for ‘get sound’:

Monster-WolfRed · May 28, 2020, 10:06am

Awesome, thanks. This is what I have so far. I start my project at 0 (12 midnight) and it plays the night sound but never updates to a day sound, also the night sound doesn’t cut off at 6am as specified. What am I missing? I couldn’t find a Target | Sound node. My day/night sound variables are Sound Base as a veriable type and my Sound Playing veriable are set as Audio Component as a variable type.

Monster-WolfRed · May 28, 2020, 10:26am

Ok cool, I found it and plugged it in, look all correct now but still the same issue. Plays night sound from 12 Midnight when I play my project but doesn’t update to day sound

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 10:31am

Ok, well the logic definintely works ( I have pressure tested it ). What I’d suggest is hack it so you can choose when to switch ( don’t wait for the time ), just put a couple of key presses in like this:

So you can switch at the drop off a hat. When you’re satisfied the swapping works, you can rummage around in your code a bit…

I will take another look at the rest of your code now…

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 10:50am

It might be that you are apparently implementing a 24 hr clock, but in the day/night test you seem to only have a 12 hr clock…

Monster-WolfRed · May 28, 2020, 9:11pm

OK, I’ll give this a try after work tonight. Thanks for you’re help =)

ClockworkOcean · May 28, 2020, 9:12pm

No worries - we will get there!

Monster-WolfRed · May 30, 2020, 8:14pm

Hi there, sorry it took my a while to get around to this. I have given that a try and nothing happens on the keypress.

ClockworkOcean · May 30, 2020, 8:36pm

Excellent

ClockworkOcean · May 30, 2020, 8:18pm

Did you enable input?:

Monster-WolfRed · May 30, 2020, 8:30pm

Ok, yes, enabled that and switching is working perfectly. I think I may have identified an issue but may not be related to this specific issue however may create further issues with the time of day sound. When i play and it hits 24 hours it doesn’t reset to 0 it just continuesly climbs, I was thinking this might cause issues with it looping as I have the time variable to to 0600 and 1800. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly as well!

jollyvideos · May 26, 2024, 5:52pm

I have the same problem setting an ambient sound for day and night.
I can’t get the target variable “get sound”
What kind of variable is “sound playing”?

ClockworkOcean · May 26, 2024, 6:36pm

It’s always a good idea to create your variables by right clicking on the output pin