Ability to control which sound from a `SoundEvent` is played.

[Remscar]

What can't you do?

I want to be able to synchronize what sound is played from a sound event across all clients.
Right now when I play a sound event it randomly selects a sound to play, but if I trigger the playing of a sound via an RPC, I have no way of ensuring every player is hearing the same sound.

How would you like it to work?

I would like an API exposed like this

SoundEvent se = new SoundEvent(); // assume this is a real sound event
var chosenIndex = Game.Random.Next(0, se.Sounds.Count);
Sound.PlayExact(se, chosenIndex);

Essentially some variation of Sound.Play that allows me to specify an index.

OR, there is a networked version of Sound.Play which plays the same sound across all clients

What have you tried?

Some abomination like this

var handle = Sound.PlayFile(se.Sounds[chosenIndex], 1f, 1f, 0f, 0f);
handle.AirAbsorption = se.AirAbsorption;
handle.Falloff = se.Falloff;
handle.DistanceAttenuation = se.DistanceAttenuation;
// And all the other properties from sound event

Additional context

No response

[nixxquality]

Why? As far as I understand, the different sounds inside a single soundevent are supposed to be functionally equivalent, just more of them so you don't hear the same footstep every time, for example.
Can't you just have multiple SoundEvents?

[Remscar]

Can't you just have multiple SoundEvents?

Sure, but the maintenance for this is terrible:

Imagine if you need the same

• Volume
• Occlusion/Reverb/Air Absorption/Tramsmission
• Mixer
• Distance Attenuation

Across all of those sound events.

And then you decide you want to adjust the distance attenuation, for all of them. Instead of making 4 button clicks I have to make 4 * N.

You're right that they are supposed to be functionally equivalent, but perhaps I want them to be exactly the same across all clients?