Playing Sound with Delay and Looping

[lsf22]

Renpy Version 7.4.11

If I wanted to not only have my sound play with looping but also with a delay, do I need to define that sound or can it be done with auto sound settings?

Example:

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	scene room_1
	play sound "audio/sound/alarm_clock_1" loop
	pause # Usually when I do a scene it gets skipped over if there is no dialogue or pause

[Ocelot]

You need to explain more. What exactly should happen? What delay, where and when should it happen?

[lsf22]

For my sound that I want played, I want a delay of 3 seconds for it before it loops again

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play sound "audio/sound/Alarm_Clock_1.ogg" loop delay=?? #I've tried some codes but I'm not sure which one is actually right for the delay

[Ocelot]

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play sound ["audio/sound/Alarm_Clock_1.ogg", "<silence 3.0>"] loop

[lsf22]

That worked fine for sound. But for voice what is the equivalent of that? I tried using that same code for voice and it didn't' work out

[Ocelot]

Do you mean automatic voicing for dialogue? You will either need to separate dialogue in two parts or edit silence in the beginning of your file.

[lsf22]

I'm unsure if it's best applied as a sound instead and placed on another channel so that it doesn't interfere with other sounds going on. It's a characters voice that I intended to be used repeatedly from one looped video to another another video but without it overriding any sound effects. Just to clarify it's not dialogue, it's just that character moaning.

Maybe this can give an idea on what I want

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Label H_scene_#1:

    scene H_animation_1
    play sound ["audio/sound_effect/v1.ogg", "<silence 0.5>"] loop
    voice "audio/voice/char_Jane_moan_1.ogg" #looping at every 0.5 seconds  wanted
    pause

    scene H_animation_2
    # Next scene with desired looping voice and sound from previous scene carried over
    pause

[Ocelot]

You are trying to shove square peg into round hole. voice statement is created for a very specific use of "this sound file voices this dialogue". Do not try to repurpose it.

In your case it is better to play it on its own channel (ot music channel if you do not have music here), if there would be other sounds playing.