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fix(audio): keep shell map out of the intro and stop MiniAudio dropping sounds - #376
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MiniAudio and OpenAL remain behaviorally different for music looping. The PR adds ma_sound_set_looping(sound, MA_TRUE) in MiniAudioManager.cpp:519-523. OpenAL keeps streaming sources non-looping a… |
Implement equivalent music looping in the OpenAL streaming path, including end-of-stream buffer refill and restart handling, or remove the MiniAudio looping change. Add cross-backend regression coverage for music looping and the changed pri… |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title follows Conventional Commits with the valid type fix, the optional scopeaudio, and a descriptive summary of the shell-map and MiniAudio changes. It does not contain@.Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Platform Isolation PASS. The pull request introduces no platform-specific API in game logic. The changed Generals/ and GeneralsMD/ files modify comments only. Core/GameEngine/ calls the abstract AudioManager API `TheAud… Cross-Platform Determinism PASS. The reviewed diff introduces no simulation/game-logic math, WWMath calls, divisions, or integer casts. The changed code only updates MiniAudio state/control and removes the initial menu push; th… Conventional Commit Standards All two commits use valid Conventional Commits subjects: fix(audio): .... The pull request title also uses the same valid format. Neither subject nor title contains@, and no merge commit requires…No Hardcoded Local Paths / Sensitive Info No personal machine paths, private environment variables, internal URLs, or local workspace paths were introduced. The only path-like text is the portable relative asset path Menus/MainMenu.wndin t…Ngmp Protocol Integrity The PR does not modify GeneralsOnline/, NextGenMP/, cmake/ngmp.cmake, or NGMP protocol code. The added and removed diff lines contain no NGMP, SAGE_USE_NGMP, transport, routing, REST, heartbeat, or Wi… Full details: Platform Isolation
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PASS. The pull request introduces no platform-specific API in game logic. The changed Generals/ and GeneralsMD/ files modify comments only. Core/GameEngine/ calls the abstract AudioManager API
TheAudio->pauseAudio(...). The MiniAudio API changes remain under Core/GameEngineDevice/, which is the permitted platform-device layer. No Win32, Cocoa, or raw POSIX includes or calls were added.
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PASS. The reviewed diff introduces no simulation/game-logic math, WWMath calls, divisions, or integer casts. The changed code only updates MiniAudio state/control and removes the initial menu push; the added comments and worklog contain no executable math.
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fix(audio): .... The pull request title also uses the same valid format. Neither subject nor title contains@, and no merge commit requires the exception.
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No personal machine paths, private environment variables, internal URLs, or local workspace paths were introduced. The only path-like text is the portable relative asset path
Menus/MainMenu.wndin the worklog. The code and comments add no sensitive path or environment data.
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The PR does not modify GeneralsOnline/, NextGenMP/, cmake/ngmp.cmake, or NGMP protocol code. The added and removed diff lines contain no NGMP, SAGE_USE_NGMP, transport, routing, REST, heartbeat, or Win32-networking changes. The NGMP init, shutdown, and update calls in GeneralsMD remain unchanged. The PR changes audio handling and delays the main-menu push; it does not replace NGMP with GameSpy or bypass multiplayer ticking.
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MiniAudio and OpenAL remain behaviorally different for music looping. The PR adds
ma_sound_set_looping(sound, MA_TRUE)inMiniAudioManager.cpp:519-523. OpenAL keeps streaming sources non-looping atOpenALAudioStream.cpp:16, and its music-loop call remains commented atOpenALAudioManager.cpp:2905-2907. The PR changes no OpenAL files. The priority filtering, pause/stop handling, and speech-release changes otherwise align with the OpenAL structure, but the music-loop mismatch violates backend parity.Resolution
Implement equivalent music looping in the OpenAL streaming path, including end-of-stream buffer refill and restart handling, or remove the MiniAudio looping change. Add cross-backend regression coverage for music looping and the changed priority, pause/resume, stop, and speech-release behavior.
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Sounds pause and wait in place
A looping track keeps time
Resume finds the paused notes
Two startup paths wait their turn
The shell map begins in sequence
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Review comments at
@Core/GameEngineDevice/Source/MiniAudioDevice/MiniAudioManager.cpp:
- Around line 284-286: Update the request-removal loop in pauseAudio to delete
an AR_Play request only when its audio category matches which. Preserve pending
play requests for other categories so they can reach processRequestList().
- Line 235: Add user-facing change annotations immediately above the new
isAffectedBy category matcher and the changed playback behavior code; ensure
these annotations describe those changes rather than relying on the existing
FP-guard annotations.
- Around line 259-260: Update the music toggle to call pauseAudio() instead of
stopAudio(), and change MiniAudioManager::isMusicPlaying() to return true only
when a non-paused PlayingAudio entry has event type AT_Music and its ma_sound is
playing; do not rely on the music group’s started state.
- Around line 659-669: In the MiniAudio release handling, update the reset
condition for `m_disallowSpeech` so it clears the flag only when the released
streaming event is uninterruptible. Preserve the existing streaming-event and
flag checks.
Review comments at @Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/GameEngine.cpp:
- Line 677: Add the required GeneralsX change annotation immediately above the
changed main-menu startup behavior, documenting the change and following the
project’s established keyword, author, and date conventions; locate the behavior
by the MainMenuInit() reference.
Review comments at @GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/GameEngine.cpp:
- Line 851: Add the required GeneralsX change annotation immediately above the
main-menu startup behavior near MainMenuInit(), using the project’s established
keyword, author, and date conventions and a description of the behavior change.
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Thanks, I'll look into those. Do you prefer a separate commit for incremental review or should I rewrite the existing one to include all the changes? |
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Feel free to send how many commits you want here, I will squash them to the main branch - github preserves your authorship on squash process. |
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@coderabbitai plase ignore the OpenAL parity for this one - let's focus on Miniaudio |
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Tip For best results, initiate chat on the files or code changes. @fbraz3 Thanks for the guidance. For this PR, I’ll focus on MiniAudio correctness and exclude OpenAL parity from the review scope. ✏️ Learnings added
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…ng sounds GameEngine::init() pushed the main menu, which was commented out in the original code. MainMenuInit() calls showShellMap(TRUE), so the shell map and its music played under the intro movies. Remove the push again in Generals and Zero Hour; the shell map now starts when the intro is done. MiniAudio keeps music, speech and sound effects in one list: - isPlayingLowerPriority() and findLowestPrioritySound() could pick the music or speech as the sound to replace when all sound slots were full, so the menu music stopped after a few seconds. Only consider sound effects of the same kind (2D or 3D), like the Miles backend. - Music tracks played once. Loop them, like INFINITE_LOOP_COUNT in Miles. - pauseAudio() and stopAudio() stopped the whole sound group, which also silenced every sound started later (pause menu buttons, the general's lines after SUSPEND_BACKGROUND_SOUNDS). Pause or stop only the playing sounds and resume the paused ones, like Miles. - The disallow-speech flag was only cleared in notifyOfAudioCompletion(), which this backend never calls, so all speech after the first uninterruptible line was dropped. Clear it when the speech is released. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- pauseAudio(): drop pending play requests of the paused types only, so speech queued in the same frame as SUSPEND_BACKGROUND_SOUNDS still plays - clear the disallow-speech flag only when the uninterruptible speech that set it is released - debug music toggle pauses instead of stops; isMusicPlaying() checks for an unpaused, playing music track instead of the music group - add GeneralsX change annotations Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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76a80a4 should address the review comments excluding OpenAL parity and I rebased the first commit against main. |
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GameEngine::init() pushed the main menu, which was commented out in the original code. MainMenuInit() calls showShellMap(TRUE), so the shell map and its music played under the intro movies. Remove the push again in Generals and Zero Hour; the shell map now starts when the intro is done.
MiniAudio keeps music, speech and sound effects in one list:
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