Simultaneous Sounds

I'm a total noob with MUSHClient and scripting and triggers, but I love playing MUDs with sound.

While playing Aardwolf I'm using the soundpack plugin, but I also want a step sound (S1) to play when I move. This is working fine with a simple trigger when the game displays "Exits:".

However, I would also like a chime (S2) to play when I arrive at recall. (Triggered on "The Grand City of Aylor (G)".) Works fine when I disable the step trigger.

Alas, when I step into the recall room, I only hear S1. I tried changing the S1 trigger sequence to 105 — S2 is default 100 — because I read somewhere that such a thing might help triggers work properly. No luck.

Any help is appreciated.

I think the answer to this depends on exactly which mechanism you're using to play sounds and also what format your sounds are in. We need to see your triggers.

Thank you very much for the speedy reply. I apologize for my total lack of knowledge.

The page to which you linked is about a script function. Is that different from triggers? I feel like scripting is a huge labyrinth into which I may not be ready to step.

If there's no way to remedy the problem with triggers alone, I may just endure the single-sound situation.

Sorry, I've updated my reply to back up a step. Please read it anew.

Yes, of course.

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S1 (step):

<triggers>
<trigger
enabled="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="*Exits:*"
sequence="105"
sound="C:\Users\scart\OneDrive\Documents\MUDs\MUD Sounds\step.wav"
>
</trigger>
</triggers>

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S2 (recall):

<triggers>
<trigger
enabled="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="The Grand City of Aylor (G)"
sequence="100"
sound="C:\Users\scart\OneDrive\Documents\MUDs\MUD Sounds\tone03.wav"
>
</trigger>
</triggers>

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Thanks again for your assistance.

I don't know why there are multiple different internal mechanisms in MUSHclient for playing sound, but IIRC the old trigger sound mechanism does not support playing more than one at a time.

If you use these instead, I think it should work...

Thank you! Alas, I'm not sure where to add that code. I tried using the trigger window, changing "Sent to" to "Script" and adding the code into the "Send" window above. No luck.

I tried adding it to the "External Script File" under the World Properties menu. No luck.

Thanks for your help. Sorry for being such a clueless novice.

You're going to hate me.

I followed those directions and it won't play either sound. I know the trigger is working because when I tell it to highlight the matched text, that works.

If you have any ideas about what else we could try, I'm all ears. I tried making a new directory in my MUSHClient folder with the same sounds and adjusting the path.. but it didn't fix it. Perhaps I did it wrong?

We don't hate you.

In Lua, to put backslashes inside a string as Fiendish did, you need to double them, so it would be:



Or, more simply, use forward slashes.

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Incremental improvements + backwards compatibility.

Lol, oops. I've edited my post to use forward slashes instead. Sorry for not testing it first.

Thank you both! (And thanks for not hating me, heh.)

I look forward to trying this out later today. Fingers crossed!

It worked!

It's a pretty small thing, but it means SO much that you stuck it out and helped me. Thank you, both of you, a billion times!