Mesh with animations state and sound

[kubatp]

Hi,
can somebody give me a simple answer, please?
Is it possible to have a mesh with animation state(s) and sound(s) for this animation state?
I.e. when I start the animation, it plays the sound as well?
Thank you very much.

[tod]

Ogre is a Graphics Rendering Engine, it doesn't do sounds. And besides, when you start the animation, why don't you play your sound also?

[Faranwath]

Is it possible to have a mesh with animation state(s) and sound(s) for this animation state?
I.e. when I start the animation, it plays the sound as well?

Not out of the box, but, as tod said, you could simply play the sound right after starting the animation.

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// ...
// code for starting the animation
// ...

play_sound("my_sound.mp3");

[kubatp]

Hi,
thank you for reply. There are number of reasons:

• The sound has a latency when I play it separately.
• It is a "waste" to have the sound as long as the animation when you just want to add sound (for example) for "march step".
• When you have looping animation, you have to be careful to correctly reset both together.
• You need to sync these things in code. It is much cleaner to have animation which already includes sound and the work can be done purely by 3D modeller.

From your replies I suppose there is no solution for this except of using 3rd party library, correct?

[Faranwath]

The sound has a latency when I play it separately.

Are you streaming it? That should prove faster.

You need to sync these things in code. It is much cleaner to have animation which already includes sound and the work can be done purely by 3D modeller.

You have a point. But even so, this can be abstracted.

From your replies I suppose there is no solution for this except of using 3rd party library, correct?

Quoting tod once more, Ogre is only concerned with graphics.

[Klaim]

For steps and other sounds triggered by, for example, collision and related to animations, one way to do it is to have tag points on the skeleton, which in some cases (when playing some animations for example) you "check" (whatever that mean) to trigger the sound.
Ogre can only give you the tag points, the rest you'll have to do yourself. Also, some of these triggers, if related to collisions, might be implemented using the physics engine instead or your implementation of collision system.

[kubatp]

Thank you very much for your replies and opinions.
I understand from your replies that I have to find a solution how to sync animations and sounds on my own.
Happy coding:)