: What about Wail?
Haven't tried it yet. I probably should. I only just heard the name recently.
: FWIW I don't believe you can use MML to replace empty/unused slots, or to add
: permutations that don't exist in the sound file. I merely ported Loren's
: original replacement sound code to work with SDL.
Right, that's what I figured when I noticed that it didn't work right off that bat - hence adding the tiny little blips of noise to the sound file and replacing those. (I used tiny blips because was under the impression that Anvil's wonkyness with sounds had to do with the volume of data being moved around... l've seen similar problems when working with shapes too, add or change too much data at once and it has trouble saving sometimes).
: Being able to replace empty/unused slots and add permutations would mostly
: obsolete the sound file, I suppose.
Which, from a content creator's point of view, would be awesome. I'd much rather have nothing but XML and folders full of standard-format data files (PNGs and AIFs and the like), than have to muck around in a bunch of proprietary binary formats, especially if the only way of editing such formats is a craptastic program that only had such capabilities hacked onto it at the last minute. (Anvil was originally just a physics editor, and Shapes and Sounds editing was only thrown in very late in the game. Hence why physics editing is rock solid but shapes and sounds editing is buggy as all hell). I understand that there are some overhead drawbacks to using text formats like XML instead of binary, though... not to mention that at that point you're practically rewriting the Marathon engine completely; so I don't expect things to go that direction any time soon.
