Sound:FadeIn(time) and Sound:FadeOut(time)

Feature Requests Engine Features
#1

Could be used to smoothly tween a sound’s volume in or out over a specified time. Even though this can already be achieved fairly easily with loops, I feel like it’s a common enough occurrence to deserve its own function.

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General tweening API
#2

It could be added as new parameters to Sound:Play() and Sound:Stop() (that, and SoundService:PlayLocalSound) - seeing as the use is closely tied to playing/stopping the audio.

void Sound:Play([number fadeTime = 0])
void Sound:Stop([number fadeTime = 0])
void SoundService:PlayLocalSound(Sound sound[, number fadeTime = 0])
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#3

There shouldn’t be any tweening methods. There should just be a generic global tweening function.

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#4

I’ve found that having a modulescript for tweening is pretty useful, after seeing other developers (Acecateer IIRC) having such a thing.

TweenUtility.rbxmx (14.4 KB)

Example of use:

local tweenUtil = require(ModuleScript)

tweenUtil.tween(Sound, "Volume", 1, "In", "Quad", 2, function(status)
    print("The tween was:", status.Name) -- can be Completed or Cancelled
end)

local parts = {
    [workspace.Part1] = workspace.Part1.CFrame,
    [workspace.Part2] = workspace.Part2.CFrame,
    [workspace.Abc] = workspace.Abc.CFrame
}
tweenUtil.tweenFunc(function(progress)
    for part, partCFrame in next, parts do
        part.Size = Vector3.new(progress, progress, progress) * 5
        part.CFrame = partCFrame
    end
end, Enum.EasingDirection.Out, Enum.EasingStyle.Bounce, 1)

But it’d be great to have a dedicated API for tweening as Sharksie suggests, yeah.

BasePart:MoveTo(CFrame, time)
#5

I’d prefer something like this to be implemented in lua.

Heck, I’d even prefer that it be in open source lua, so that I could add whatever functionality I’d need in the future (like interrupts, kill-alls, etc).

#6

I’d prefer a discrete set of sound operations that work independently of Lua threads so that timing can be exact.