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betsbillabong

Sound in Breakout mod?
Aug 21^st, 2008, 11:52pm

Hi there,

I'm working on an audio project on deadline, and am trying to add sound to the modded version of Breakout found here:

http://www.trsp.net/teaching/gamemod/

(Such a cool project, by the way)

I am new to Processing and haven't programmed before, except for Max/MSP. Can this be done easily? How would I go about doing this? Anyone want to help?

I've downloaded Ess but don't really understand what to do next. I know that I need to find the code that tells the program what to do when the balls collide with the bricks, the wall, or the paddle (and I think I've found it) but I don't know how to trigger a sample there.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks so much,
Betsey

rbtpts

Re: Sound in Breakout mod?
Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2008, 6:45pm

There should be an example in examples-library-ess
under FILE menu.

If you aven't already, copy the ESS folder to the libraries folder of processing.

in body of your program, put something like:

import krister.Ess.*;
Ess.start();

AudioChannel some_sound = new AudioChannel("blah.wav");

then in the part where there is a paddle hit, put:
some_sound.play();

Has there been any talk of including a standard sound library for processing?

betsbillabong

Re: Sound in Breakout mod?
Reply #2 - Aug 23^rd, 2008, 9:46pm

Hi there, and thanks so much for your response. I will try that. Luke's example of triggering sound files was on the Processing website, but since he was doing lots of stuff afterwards with the signal (panning, etc), I wasn't sure about how to simply trigger a sound file so that it played once. I didn't check the examples folder and I will do that. I had downloaded Ess.

I ended up simply downloading a video of a Breakout game from Youtube and then using the analyzer~ object in Max to substitute a different sound (of my choice) each time there was a hit. It worked pretty well - but it would be fun to play it myself! I'll give it a shot.

Thanks again,

Betsey

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