Hey there,

I'd like to make the bomb tickling sound in sd to be hearable only from a distance.

I looked into the csv files and now I have this line:

bomb_tick,,misc/bomb_tick.wav,0.0,0.93,na,,,50,300,local,,,looping,,,,,,,,,,


and in my sd.gsc i have:

bomb_countdown()
{
	self endon("bomb_defused");
	level endon("intermission");

	thread showBombTimers();
//	level.bombmodel playLoopSound("bomb_tick");
	xqt_bombtickdist = getCvarInt("xqt_bombtickdist");
	xqt_bombtickenabled = getCvarInt("xqt_bombtickenabled");
	
	if(getCvar("xqt_bombtickenabled") == "1")
	{
		level.bombmodel playLoopSound("bomb_tick");
	}
	

	wait level.bombtimer;

	// other stuff here.... wont post....
}

and that did not work (i could hear the tickling from any distance), so that i tried to make a script for the distant sound.

bomb_countdown()
{
	self endon("bomb_defused");
	level endon("intermission");

	thread showBombTimers();
//	level.bombmodel playLoopSound("bomb_tick");
	xqt_bombtickdist = getCvarInt("xqt_bombtickdist");
	xqt_bombtickenabled = getCvarInt("xqt_bombtickenabled");
	
	if(getCvar("xqt_bombtickenabled") == "1")
	{
		for(;;)
		{
			selforg = self.origin;
			wait 0.1;
			bomborg = level.bombmodel.origin;
			
			dst = distance(bomborg,selforg);
			
			if(dst < 300)
			{
				self playLoopSound("bomb_tick");
			}
		}
	}
}

I'm not sure, but if my mind serves my right, when I used self playloopsound instead of level.bombmodel playloopsound, and when i armed the bomb, a tree model appeared on top of the bomb xDDD was very funny but why did it appear? lol

It takes the dist_min and dist_max from the sound alias to decide whether to play or not. Reversing min and max won't help either.
This is hard to do, especially with a looping sound. You can play the looping sound on any player entity in (or out) of range, but if you are not careful in setting the right sound alias variables, you end up with players hearing each other ticking.