Sound from prim in linkset without additional script.

[ainst Composer]

Hello! I came across a vehicles in which the sound comes not from the root prim but from another, for example from a motor. but at the same time in the motor prim, I did not find the script. How to make the sound go from not root prim and from child prim in a link set without an additional script?

[steph Arnott]

3 minutes ago, ainst Composer said:

Hello! I came across a vehicles in which the sound comes not from the root prim but from another, for example from a motor. but at the same time in the motor prim, I did not find the script. How to make the sound go from not root prim and from child prim in a link set without an additional script?

Well that giff swirl is an Epiletic inducer. Damned dangerous.

[Fenix Eldritch]

10 minutes ago, ainst Composer said:

How to make the sound go from not root prim and from child prim in a link set without an additional script?

Sadly, this is not possible. There are currently no "linked" functions that allow you to play/trigger a sound from a different child prim. At present, you must use a script and that script will only allow you to emit sounds from the prim in which said script resides.

Regarding your specific example, I can only assume that the script controlling the sound was hidden in some other nearby child prim.

[steph Arnott]

43 minutes ago, ainst Composer said:

 

You find it funny inducing a photosensitive epilepsy fit? I just had to increase my dose because of you.

[ainst Composer]

14 hours ago, steph Arnott said:

You find it funny inducing a photosensitive epilepsy fit? I just had to increase my dose because of you.

I suspected that you were sick, but so much to report my profile picture? .. welcome to my black list.

[steph Arnott]

Just now, ainst Composer said:

I suspected that you were sick, but so much to report my profile picture? .. welcome to my black list.

Your giff was a medical issue. If you have an issue with that then take it up with LL.

[Qie Niangao]

19 hours ago, Fenix Eldritch said:

Regarding your specific example, I can only assume that the script controlling the sound was hidden in some other nearby child prim.

That seems the most likely explanation, but if that can be ruled out (perhaps by unlinking and moving prims around until the sound emitter is confirmed), then I wonder if it's due to the persistence of llLoopSound(). I don't remember exactly how that works but I know the sound will continue looping after the script is removed at least for a time.

It doesn't seem very practical for a vehicle, but in theory one could use llRemoteLoadScriptPin() to push a sound script to the intended emitter, and that script could remove itself after starting the sound loop. (One bit of impracticality is that the script doing the pushing is forced to sleep for three seconds, so that's upward pressure on script count.)

[Wulfie Reanimator]

3 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

That seems the most likely explanation, but if that can be ruled out (perhaps by unlinking and moving prims around until the sound emitter is confirmed), then I wonder if it's due to the persistence of llLoopSound(). I don't remember exactly how that works but I know the sound will continue looping after the script is removed at least for a time.

It doesn't seem very practical for a vehicle, but in theory one could use llRemoteLoadScriptPin() to push a sound script to the intended emitter, and that script could remove itself after starting the sound loop. (One bit of impracticality is that the script doing the pushing is forced to sleep for three seconds, so that's upward pressure on script count.)

Looping sound is in fact a permanent prim property, much like particles or hovertext or color. The sound would keep playing forever, even after taking it into inventory with no script and rezzing it again.

[Fenix Eldritch]

That surprised me, I had no idea looping sound was in fact a prim property. But I just tried it now and sure enough, Wulfie and Qie are correct!

Is this documented somewhere? I wasn't able to find any references to this on the wiki.

Edited March 16, 2019 by Fenix Eldritch

[Wulfie Reanimator]

5 minutes ago, Fenix Eldritch said:

That surprised me, I had no idea looping sound was in fact a prim property. But I just tried it now and sure enough, Wulfie is correct!

Is this documented somewhere? I wasn't able to find any references to this on the wiki.

Maybe one day I should request wiki editing privileges, these little details come up every now and then without a clear indicator. (I don't remember where I learned this from, probably directly from somebody else or by noticing it never stops.)

[steph Arnott]

9 minutes ago, Fenix Eldritch said:

That surprised me, I had no idea looping sound was in fact a prim property. But I just tried it now and sure enough, Wulfie is correct!

Is this documented somewhere? I wasn't able to find any references to this on the wiki.

A sound file in an object is just a link. It is not an object. Removing that link does nothing because the data file is in the server.

Edited March 16, 2019 by steph Arnott

[ItHadToComeToThis]

So a longer winded version of what Wulfie stated. Gotcha 

[steph Arnott]

1 hour ago, ItHadToComeToThis said:

So a longer winded version of what Wulfie stated. Gotcha 

If that is how you want to perceive it that is upto you. But knowing it is only a link then it is obvious you only need its asset key rather than dumping a link into the object contents. All that does is make a script test it is there instead of just calling the asset. The reason you put a sound file link in a loop sound is because simply removing it from the contents and calling up by say touch will throw up a NUL_KEY clearing that loop. But i would never write a script with no way of stopping it.

Edited March 16, 2019 by steph Arnott

[mikka Luik]

That explains a few oddities I have run in to over the years. A prim property? Would never have occurred to me. Thanks Wulfie et al