Yeah I've always had a little bit of trouble explaining it to folks. It's much easier explained visually.blackoak wrote:@BPzeBanshee, I'm glad that part made sense and is reflected in the actual code. I've done a lot of sound production and knew what he was talking about, manual fades being a pretty standard part of working with audio. But the "loop point" terminology (his words) was a little confusing. I guess there isn't really a more eloquent or simple way to describe that.
For those who aren't so savvy, some of G-Stream's tracks that had an intro piece was actually made into two tracks. Since apparently defining an automatic loop point for a single sound was not going to happen Fujino prebaked it instead with a fadein to stop it, presumably to stop it sounding clippy when going from the first track to the second. It just comes off as even weirder though because of that volume drop. If memory serves only Stage 2, 5A, and the not-Stage-1 boss themes had to make use of this.