Playing Sound Effects on Clients

[theoriginalbit]

Hello all,

 

In my mod I have a block which plays some sound effects. The sounds/actions are triggered server-side and sent to the clients. I am currently going through a refactor which is trying to reduce the amount of packets that is sent between the server and client, however I noticed a problem.

 

I am able to successfully send particle messages from the server to the client and have them spawn by invoking World#spawnParticle(String, double, double, double, double, double, double) on the world object, however for some reason invoking World#playSoundEffect(double, double, double, String, float, float) does not play the sound effect, instead I've found that it requires me to actually invoke that method server-side or it won't be heard on the client at all... I'm not too sure what I'm doing wrong here, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

 

Code

IMessage: https://github.com/theoriginalbit/MoarPeripherals/blob/master/src/main/java/com/theoriginalbit/moarperipherals/common/network/message/MessageSoundEffect.java

IMessageHandler: https://github.com/theoriginalbit/MoarPeripherals/blob/master/src/main/java/com/theoriginalbit/moarperipherals/common/network/message/handler/MessageHandlerSoundEffect.java

 

— BIT

[TheGreyGhost]

Hi

 

If you want other clients to hear the sound effect you need to send it to the server.

 

If you just want the local client to hear the sound, you can use

Minecraft.getMinecraft().getSoundHandler().playSound(sound);

where sound is an ISound, typically

PositionedSoundRecord

There are some good vanilla examples such as

MovingSoundMinecartRiding

 

-TGG

[theoriginalbit]

Hi,

 

As it currently stands the code is being processed on the server, therefore I wish to send it out to the clients.

 

I assume that the standard World#playSoundEffect(double, double, double, String, float, float) performs a lookup with the supplied name to find a Minecraft.getMinecraft().getSoundHandler().playSound(ISound)?

 

— BIT

[coolAlias]

Yes. World#playSoundEffect and #playSoundAtEntity will automatically notify all nearby clients, so you don't have to; however, they may only be used on the server. On the client, you can use player#playSound (which doesn't work on the server).

[theoriginalbit]

alrighty, thank you both