AS Sound volume trouble

[Satis]

I'm having a slight problem with changing sound volumes in AS, maybe someone can troubleshoot.

There is a certain sound effect that I want to be able to lower and raise the volume of during the course of the movie. I have assigned a sound to a variable in the following manner, as advised in the BBS...

myVariable = new Sound();
myVariable.attachSound("Soundfile");

Later I start the sound:

myVariable.start(0,100); [note: it's not really going to play 100 times, just loop until I stop it manually with another AS.]

Then at the appropriate time in the movie, I control the volume like so:

myVariable.setVolume(30);

As mentioned before I am also utilizing :

myVariable.stop();

THE PROBLEM IS: I also have various one-time-hit sound effects and a looped mp3 as background music. Even though I am calling the AS on the named variable only, it is setting the loop to the same volume level. I haven't done anything with the music loop's linkage, so as far as I understand it theoretically it shouldn't be affected. I want the music loop to remain constant volume throughout. It is even starting and stopping with the named variable. Even though I haven't "noticed" it per se, I'm pretty certain that the one-time sound effects are also having their volume altered.

Has anyone run into this problem in the past? What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.
S

[23450]

At 3/8/06 10:46 PM, Satis wrote: Has anyone run into this problem in the past? What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it?

If you watch
this submission, by me, i had the same problem. He is running around the tree, and i wanted the foot steps to constantly get lower and higher as we cam close and farther from the screen. But like you, it made all my sounds go lower and higher, making it sound like crap.

But alas, i have no clue as of how to fix it. Someone should though, i hopes.

[raitendo]

I had this problem before as well, and though I never tried doing it I learnd it is possible, by attaching the new sound to an "attached" movieclip (i.e. one created with the AS command "attacheMovieClip", or maybe something like CreateEmptyMovieClip, not sure if that's a command though).

So something like

CreateEmptyMovieClip (mc_name)
mc_name.MyVariable = newSound

I think that should work but you could also check through my old posts, I think Inglor was the one replying exactly how to.

[Satis]

Ok yeah I am not quite up to speed enough yet to understand the intracacies of the MC method (although I'll work on that later) but I found it easier to use the sound envelope controls under "custom" editing and lower/raise the volumes that way. But it is a simple movie and I'm only controlling 2-3 sounds. I also have digital audio editing experience so that interface is somewhat familiar.

I wish someone would do a small tutorial on these types of controls (not just on sound) and the entire MC method, unless I've missed it and perhaps a kind person can point it out.

Thanks for pointing me to the right places guys.