1. I looked high and low and couldn't find anything on the best method of doing spawns and what if anything is done different for the various other gametypes.

2. FX... I already have my sound in raw/maps/createfx (mp_ag_town_fx.gsc)

main()
{
thread globalSoundFx();
}
globalSoundFx()
{
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -3080, -984, -649 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -2817, -1117, -793 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -2817, -828, -793 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("idling_truck", ( -1600, -744, -1016 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("police_radio", ( -1688, -536, -1016 ), 1);
}

I was told to use the following, but to add it into mp_mapname_fx.gsc, but if my sound is in there I'm not sure if it also goes in there somehow, or am I creating a 2nd mp_mapname_fx.gsc in another folder or what.

main()
{
level._effect[ "flies" ] = loadfx( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent = maps\mp\_utility::createOneshotEffect( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent.v[ "origin" ] = ( -100, 1380, 104 );
ent.v[ "angles" ] = ( 270, 0, 0 );
ent.v[ "fxid" ] = "flies";
ent.v[ "delay" ] = -1;
ent.v[ "soundalias" ] = "insects";

}

3. Are ziplines possible in CoD4? Any tuts around if so?

So I added:

main()
{
level._effect[ "flies" ] = loadfx( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent = maps\mp\_utility::createOneshotEffect( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent.v[ "origin" ] = ( -100, 1380, 104 );
ent.v[ "angles" ] = ( 270, 0, 0 );
ent.v[ "fxid" ] = "flies";
ent.v[ "delay" ] = -1;
ent.v[ "soundalias" ] = "insects";

}

To another mp_mapname_fx in my maps/mp folder... added it to my zone, but when I get into the map... there is nothing to be seen an no errors being thrown.

2. you can put the sound code into the map_fx.gsc together with everything else, e.g.

main()
{
level._effect[ "flies" ] = loadfx( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent = maps\mp\_utility::createOneshotEffect( "misc/insects_carcass_flies_a" );
ent.v[ "origin" ] = ( -100, 1380, 104 );
ent.v[ "angles" ] = ( 270, 0, 0 );
ent.v[ "fxid" ] = "flies";
ent.v[ "delay" ] = -1;

thread globalSoundFx();
}

globalSoundFx()
{
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -3080, -984, -649 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -2817, -1117, -793 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("ac_unit_window_loop", ( -2817, -828, -793 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("idling_truck", ( -1600, -744, -1016 ), 1);
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound ("police_radio", ( -1688, -536, -1016 ), 1);
}

But if you add fx with soundalias - ent.v[ "soundalias" ] = "insects";
that should work too.

If u can't see or here something ingame, check out the console log (Shift + ~ or Shift + ^) if it says something about missing fx or sound

if you run in dev mode, the game should write missing things into the missingassets.csv, so check this out too (make sure u run game as admin if it's Vista / 7 and installed on system partition)

double-check your soundalias file, if everything is correct (alias name, sound file path) and that it's got the first line right:

name,sequence,file,vol_min,vol_max,vol_mod,pitch_min,pitch_max,dist_min,dist_max,channel,type,probability,loop,masterslave,loadspec,subtitle,compression,secondaryaliasname,volumefalloffcurve,startdelay,speakermap,reverb,lfe percentage,center percentage,platform,envelop_min,envelop_max,envelop percentage

Also, make sure the mapname_fx.gsc script gets called by the main map script mapname.gsc:

main()
{
maps\mp\mapname_fx::main();
// more code...
}

You got my vote. Annoying indeed (sometimes it does work correctly though)

Sorry I haven't been around to help you finish this up, just been extremely busy.

Did you add the effect to your zone file?

fx,misc/insects_carcass_flies_a

NP Deek... I understand RL is more important


LOL

Anyway, I got the fx and sounds all working. Though if you or anyone else might mind chiming in on a volume question.

When using the original ent.v code it seemed my volumes were higher and of course we used the 1 liner code and it fixed my issue of echoing sounds, but the volumes for some reason were drastically reduced.

And when I say "reduced"... its massively lower then what the volume is when I play it in windows. For example: I needed a sound for a large water splash effect and found a nice sound of a waterfall that was perfect. I actually had to turn down my headset a bit, but when placed in game... it was low. I ran it through Audacity and freakin cranked up the gain like +8 or + 9 and still in game it seems a bit low for my liking.

I used those commands in game I was given in a previous thread... and Im scratching my head about why the vol shows like 0.19???

And what exactly does the vol_min and vol_max do? I assumed it meant that it would start the sound off at the minimum volume and then increase to the max depending upon what your dist_min and dist_max were.

That's right, however, it's not linear.

Assume vol_min = 0 and vol_max = 1
dist_min = 0, dist_max = 200

in the middle of the distance range, 100 units, sound wouldn't be 0.5, as sound falls off quadratic rather than linear in real world. Nonetheless, the behaviour can be different in games using custom fall off curves. So you gotta check out some stock soundaliases what they use as distances, volumnes and fall off types.

Yea, dont quite comprehend fully... but been messing with it and its gotten a little better.

what happens if you set vol_min and vol_max to 1.0?

And is the sound already loud enough if you stand really close?

Upping the vol_min seems to be doing the trick. But today we had another weird issue. Couple clan members couldnt hear the air conditioning sound at all (or very low) and I could hear it fine. Had it set for vol_min 0.2 and vol_max 0.5 and even weirder is one member could hear the sound yesterday. LOL

Im bumping up the vol on a few of them and will see what difference it makes for those users. Funny cause my sound card is easily about 7 yrs old versus everyone else doesnt have one older then 3 yrs.