How to loop a sound clip on a ButtonDown function

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1

Hi I need to know how to emit a sound clip when I press the up and down arrow keys, well I found out how to do this, (the script im using to do this is below), but the audio clip im using is a short footstep sound effect so when I click the up or down arrow keys it plays a OneShot function and I know thats because I wrote PlayOneShot, but I need it to loop as long as im holding down one of the keys, and im new at scripting so I don’t know how to do this. Please Help, The code below is in JavaScript. If you are going to write a new cod can you please write it in Java, but its ok if you don’t. Thanks

var concretefootsteps1Sound : AudioClip;

function Update () {
if(Input.GetButtonDown(“Vertical”)){

  audio.PlayOneShot(concretefootsteps1Sound);
  
}

}

2

Well, what do you expect ‘PlayOneShot’ to do?

In any case, I’m pretty sure you don’t want your code in Java, since Unity doesn’t actually understand that language. If anything, I can give you C# (since that language is syntactically very similar), but I assume you are actually talking about UnityScript. Please don’t get them mixed up, it’s very annoying.

You should learn C#, btw, because there are much better tutorials for it out there on the internet and moreover it’s a language that people actually use (yes, I know Javascript is a very common language, but Unity uses a very specific variant of the language that is pretty much unique).

Change that code to:

function Update()
{
    if(Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) > 0.1f && !audio.isPlaying)
    {
        audio.clip = concretefootsteps1Sound;
        audio.Play();
    }
    if(Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) <= 0.1f && audio.isPlaying)
    {
        audio.Stop();
    }
}