Audio won't play when key is pressed

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I'm pretty new to Unity, and I don't have much experience with scripting, so I was wondering if anyone could help with a problem I have...

I'm trying to get an audio clip to play whenever the key "f" is pressed on the keyboard, as well as an animation. Here's the code:

 function Update () {
      if (Input.GetKeyDown ("f")) {
          animation.Play ("Flight");
          audio.Play("Flight_AudioClip")
      }
 }

So far, the animation works absolutely fine, but the audio refuses to play, and the error box comes up with "Assets/Scripts/Flight.js(5,27): BCE0017: The best overload for the method 'UnityEngine.AudioSource.Play()' is not compatible with the argument list '(String)'."

I have no idea what this means, I've tried replacing "audio.Play" with heaps of other things, looked on the net for templates of scripts to use, but I still can't find any sort of answer...

can anyone help please? I just do not understand...

Answer 1

Answer by FLASHDENMARK · Jun 11, 2011 at 04:55 PM

First of all you will need to add a audio source to the gameObject that is supposed to play the audio clip.

I would do this instead:

 var canPlayAudio = true;
 var waitTime = 1.0; // Change this to the approximate time the audio clip takes to finish.

 var MySound : AudioClip; //Drag your audio clip here in the Inspector.
 
 function Update () 
 {
 AudioController();
 }


 function AudioController();
 {
 if (Input.GetKeyDown ("f") && canPlayAudio)
     {
     canPlayAudio = false;
     animation.Play ("Flight");
     audio.PlayOneShot(MySound);
     yield WaitForSeconds(waitTime);
     canPlayAudio = true;
     }
 }

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budin · Jun 12, 2011 at 12:18 AM 0

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Thankyou so much, it was very helpful :) I understand now...

But what about if I just want it to play once at a time, because when I press the f key several times, the noise plays over itself, like there are many instances playing in the moment. Right now, I just want the animation and audio to play once at a time, not over itself... do you know what I mean? I tried using Event.Ignore, but the error box scowled at me again...

FLASHDENMARK · Jun 14, 2011 at 04:14 PM 0

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Yes, I do understand your question. And yes I will change the script according to what you just said. :)

Answer 2

Answer by henry96 · Jun 11, 2011 at 03:38 PM

try to make variable on top to specify which audio!

var myaudio : AudioClip;

then in the fifth line of ur script: audio.Play (myaudio);

if it doesn't work, try

AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint (myaudio, transform.position);

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Answer by Tom 17 · Jun 11, 2011 at 03:37 PM

The thing is you're using it wrong. You need an instance of an AudioSource first, in the scripting reference this is often called audio. So audio is meant to be a variable. Please review the following pages to get an understanding of how the setup should be:

AudioSource.Play

Unity Manual - Sound

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