Hey gang,

Is it possible to add ambient sounds to a specific area?

My map is totally indoors and I want to add some ambient sounds to different areas and rooms.

I also want them to continue playing while a player or players remain in the area then stop when the area is empty.


Cheers!!

You may be able to achieve this through a script.. Like if the player is touching a trigger then play a sound. This would mean you would need a seperate trigger_multiple for each area you want a different sound. Also don't forget to not have any ambient playing from your .gsc or it will sound very messy.

Check out the sound tutorials for CoDUO, there is one about adding sound to a truck, if I'm not mistaken.. the same principle can be applied to your rooms.

Combine it with the triggers Rasta mentions and you're done.

Thanks guys, I got it working!

But what I need to do now is modify it so that I can either have two instances of the same sound playing or two sounds the same running indipendantly.

What I have is a large area with trucks so I want to trigger the first truck when the player enters the area which I have already done, then I need a delay before the sequence is repeated a little further into the building in another truck even if the first sequence is playing.
So that the player is always within earshot of some sound no matter where in the area they are and the sound remains as long as the player is in the area by chaining sounds one after the other.

Ultmately, I want sound in the room for as long as there are players in it and the reason I want delays is so that the sounds are not playing together to give a random feel to the trucks starting.

Is it possible??

The sounds.gsc I am using is this:

main() {   //START GSC


thread tank_engine();


}
tank_engine()
{ 
	tanktrig = getent ("tank_engine_trigger","targetname");
	tanktrig waittill ("trigger");

	alert = getentarray ("tank_enginesource", "targetname");
	alert playsound("tank_engine");

} //END GSC

which relates to this sounds.csv

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


tank_engine,,misc/tank_engine.wav,1,,,,,800,900,auto,,,nonlooping,,,,,,,,,,

Also, can I use mp3 formats rather than wav because wav's seem really big :/

Cheers.

SP or MP?

you could do something like this

tank_engine()
{
tanktrig = getent ("tank_engine_trigger","targetname");
tanktrig waittill ("trigger");

alert = getentarray ("tank_enginesource", "targetname");
alert[randomint(alert.size)] playsound("tank_engine");
wait(10);
tank_engine();
}


you can make the wait as long as you like, or make it randomish by using something like

wait(5+randomint(5));

to make the wait somewhere between 6 and 10 seconds..

Hey caretaker,

Thanks, Yes, its for MP...

I have tried your code but it didn't solve the problem of triggering the second sound :/

I need engine one to trigger then engine two to trigger a few seconds later meaning two sounds will be running together.

I can get engine one to trigger but engine two wont play after the wait (4); line.

The code I was using was this:

main() {   //START GSC


thread tank_engine();


}
tank_engine()
{ 
	tanktrig = getent ("tank_engine_trigger","targetname");
	tanktrig waittill ("trigger");

	alert = getent ("tank_enginesource", "targetname");
	alert playsound("tank_engine");

wait (4);

	alert = getent ("tank_enginesource2", "targetname");
	alert playsound("tank_engine2");



} //END GSC

Strangely, I get no console errors just no sound from script_model 2 (engine2)

Did you add the tank_engine2 to your csv file?
You can just use the same sound alias if you want to instead of making a new one for the second engine.

Ahaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Solved it...

I was using alert = for the second sound call and it didnt like it.
Changed it to alert2 and bingo!!!!


Weeeey Heeeeey!!!!

Strange I got no errors for that :/

edited on Nov. 25, 2007 01:45 pm by weasel

I ran across this thread if its something like a radio playing sound , or my fav is wind when you high up in a tower this is all i do and it works fine. you dont need anyting in the map itself, no targets, scripts etc..

in my .gsc
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound("radio1", (3352, 1384, 144)); //sound from field radio
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound("town2", (-24, 1408 ,0)); //sound from tank battle outside of town
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound("wind1", (1048, 160, 580)); // sound up high in tower
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound("wind2", (1016, 480, 580)); // sound in secound tower


in my .csv
ambient_mp_tower_town,,ambient/amb_africa_tankbattle.mp3,0.63,,,,,,,local,streamed,,looping,,mp_tower_town,,,,,,,,
radio1,,amb_emitters/emt_radio_loop_1c.wav,0.7,1,,,,100,600,voice,,,looping,,mp_tower_town,,,,,,,,
wind1,,amb_elements/elm_windgust3mono.wav,0.9,1,,,,100,600,voice,,,looping,,mp_tower_town,,,,,,,,
wind2,,amb_elements/elm_windgust3mono.wav,0.9,1,,,,100,600,voice,,,looping,,mp_tower_town,,,,,,,,
town2,,ambient/amb_france04_ext.mp3,0.9,1,,,,100,600,voice,,,looping,,mp_tower_town,,,,,,,,


THATS IT

yes, this is how it works.
maps\mp\_fx::loopSound("radio1", (3352, 1384, 144));

Call the loopSound() function.
"radio1" is the sound called from the .csv.
(3352, 1384,144) is the origain to loop the sound at.