I'm porting a
SCI1 game to the SCI Companion's
SCI1.1 template game and some of the
SCI1 Sound assets have a digital track embedded. I used
Sierra Resource Viewer to extract all the digital tracks as
WAV files and add them as
Audio resources (using unused numbers, as
Sound and
Audio assets share a namespace).
I have been auditing the code's 374
play: calls and making modifications to affected sounds. For example, using
(DoSound sndGET_AUDIO_CAPABILITY) to dynamically swap between using
Sound and
Audio asset depending on audio driver. I also ended up creating a
DigitalSound wrapper class to emulate cases of dynamically setting a
Sound object's
number property for play later.
So far I've found two cases (battle yelling and tavern chatter) where a
Sound with a digital track is looped for ambiance. I looked at the SCI Companion Docs but I didn't see a way to loop
DoAudio in
SCI1.1. Is there a built-in way to loop
Audio, like setting the
Sound class's
loop property to
-1? I was wondering if it was possible to attach a script to a room's script to detect when it was time to loop the audio, or make a global list like
gSounds or global object like
gMusic and add check in the main game loop. Or should I just use gumby's
sciAudio which supports looping but is not "authentic"?
Is there a best or intended way to loop
Audio in
SCI1.1?
