#$@#@ ambient_generic won't loop Created 20 years ago2004-09-02 22:13:48 UTC by Propaganda

Ok, I have an ambient sound in the background of my dod map, it isn't run by a multi manager or anything, it just starts when the map starts. This has worked before. SO I mixed it a bit in soundforge and then saved (11050 mono 16bit wav file) and put it in again. Now when the map starts so does the sound, but after one cycle it does not loop, it quits. I did not check off the do not loop radio button in the entity so thats not the prob. The sound is fairly short, maybe 30 seconds. Any ideas?

no no no! you have to save it as a 8bit to make its file sive worthy of ambient_generic... then what i do is i go strait from my sound forge 7.0 to goldwave. thats the only program i know that makes que points. then voila!! you have a looped sound. you could also try this.. it has worked for me before. when you have youre sample out. press the loop button on the top toolbar. if im not mistaken that makes quepoints. sometimes for me. try that dude!

Cue points have to be at the start and end, to avoid confusion.

I have tried all the things people have said on this website and that link
Monkey just posted, and it still wont work. I have Cool Edit Pro 2.0 and it does the same thing with cue points that Cool Edit 2000 does, but no matter what I do, it wont work. There used to be a simple option on the flags that said, "Loop" but noooo, they had to get rid of it. If anybody has any idea how to do this and make it actually work, that would be helpful not only to Propaganda, but me too.

No chance of getting the original Cool Edit?

Try GoldWave ( google), tis freeware and tis great for cue points.