Right now, the sound effect lasts for 2 seconds which is way too long. I increased the jetpack firing time a little bit, but I certainly don’t want it to last for 2 seconds…
So what would be missing is some event at the end of the jetpack firing, and a good way to make it fade out when that event fires (it shouldn’t just switch off abruptly, though).
Or some way to tell the audio manager to change the playtime duration and have it cut the effect short or squeeze it into a smaller time frame…
Hi Heckert. I ran into the same issue as you did. It’s not an ideal solution but what I did was first determine what felt like a good jetpack time. I then opened my jetpack audio file in Audacity and shortened it to my jetpack time (0.75 seconds). Now my jetpack sound effect plays for the duration of the jetpack action.
Editing the audio file to adjust its playing time to fit the effect is certainly a good approach (provided one has the right tool for it at hand)…
I think the Jetpack audio the teacher used was different and shorter than the one provided to us.