Author Topic: 'stream' flag -- how is it supposed to work?  (Read 1704 times)

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Offline Backslash

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'stream' flag -- how is it supposed to work?
I looked in the wiki, I looked at the code, I tried it in game... maybe I'm just missing something, but what is the 'stream' flag really for?

Take two guns that have, for example, firewait of 0.5 second.  A has the stream flag, B doesn't, they are otherwise identical.  I hold down the trigger with A selected for 10 seconds.  I let go, switch to B, hold down the trigger for 10 seconds.  Is there supposed to be a difference?  Am I misunderstanding how it's supposed to be used?

 

Offline Nuke

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Re: 'stream' flag -- how is it supposed to work?
i think stream just makes the sounds loop instead of playing it for every shot. for fast firing weapons to sound correctly.set a firewait of like .5 and use a sound thats a couple seconds long, you should be able to hear the difference.
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Re: 'stream' flag -- how is it supposed to work?
i think stream just makes the sounds loop instead of playing it for every shot.

:eek2: That actually makes sense! Wow!
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