[M-dev]Pea soup; Sounds. An answer?

[Christopher J. <cj...@hg...>]

To answer all the bits and pieces that followed my original post 
about pea soup problems would take a while, so I'll kind of answer 
them in one message. In a nutshell, I think I've worked out where the 
problem comes from.

1) My map contains NO sounds at all, and uses the standard Moo Sounds 
file. However, there is something strange going on..... see 
later......

2) My use of the term "pea soup" was maybe a little misleading. I'm 
talking 1 frame per 10 seconds, rather than 10 frames per one second.

3) The problem is NOT connected to OpenGL or high res textures; the 
first thing I did was remove the texture replacement MML, and the 
second thing I did was turn OpenGL off all together. Neither produced 
any improvement whatsoever.

4) It was only when I turned the sounds off that I removed the problem.

5) Finally, I opened the map in Moo and, surprise, surprise, it 
reproduces the problem as well.


So I started messing about with the map and realised there WAS a 
sound in the map. Despite the whole map being UNDER liquid, there was 
a "water lapping" sound in some rooms. I removed ALL media from the 
map, and it was still there. I even used the "Chisel Better Cleanup" 
to get rid of unused liquids and sounds, and and it was still there. 
Using Chisel reminded me of a map I had made a while back where this 
same problem existed - a phantom water lapping sound when there was 
no media in the level at all. I had come to the conclusion back then 
that the problem was due to Chisel - at some point I had merged some 
map elements using the "Chisel Merge" and that was when the sounds 
appeared (I think I even sent it to Loren at the time to see if he 
could work out what was going on). And guess what - I used Merge with 
this latest map.

So, my guess is that it's down to some bug with "Chisel Merge" that 
adds a phantom "water lapping" sound. Wherever this sound is in the 
map file, it's seriously screwing up Aleph One, and also Moo.

If anyone is interested enough in how this is messing up A1, then I 
can send them the map.


Cheers,


Chris Jones.


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