Playing Sounds via Script + Script Reference

[CTAwesome]

Hi there! It seems you guys have finally infected me with scripting. Now I'm trying to find ways of doing things via script rather than hackarounds in the entity animations.

Couple quick questions though. Firstly, I was wondering if there was a command to play sounds through script? I'm assuming there is, but I the only thing I can find in the Script Reference is "playsample", which according to the explanation only lets you play an OpenBoRconstant defined sample ("SAMPLE_BEAT", "SAMPLE_GO", etc...) rather than play any sound file in the data directory. What would the command be to play a path defined sound file?

Also, along that same vein, it looks like the Script Reference/Manual may be out of date. It was last updated in September of 2008. This detail first struck me when DC helped me out with the tosstime function (thanks again, DC!). The only thing in the entire thread that seems to be up to date is the Script Events reference, which seems to be the only script reference in the Wiki. Yes, there is a Script Introduction tutorial (which is extremely helpful, by the by), but there isn't an updated Script Reference/Manual like the one utunnels had posted. Is there an update for that in the works?

[Damon Caskey]

As you've discovered, playsample plays sounds by index, not by path. So to play a sample, you need its index. Use the loadsample() function. Loadsample will check to see if the sound path you provide is already loaded and returns the index if it is. Otherwise, it loads the sample, gives it an index then passes it.

int iSnd = loadsample({path});

playsample(iSnd,.......)

One thing to note though, you'll want to preload sounds played in game. Else wise the game will freeze for a second or two for the sample to load on the first time it gets played. An easy way to preload sounds is to create  and load a dummy entity that includes whatever sounds you need using the standard sound command.

DC

[MatMan]

Do the sounds unload automatically once the stage ends?

[slash128]

if anyone has a script to do that, please post it.

[MatMan]

check http://lavalit.com:8080/index.php/topic,4477.msg63287.html#msg63287 for a random play script but all you need is...

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void playsound(int t)
{
    int SFX1 = loadsample("data/sounds/attack1.wav");

    playsample(SFX1, 0, 120, 120, 100, 0);
 
}

Anim idle
   ....
   @cmd playsound 1
   frame .....


[slash128]

there any way to load any sound sounds folder without implementing it in the script?

[volcanic]

Strictly, this is the right way to play sound.

void playSound(void file)
{
   if(file&&file!=""){
      void sfx=loadsample(file);
      void vol=openborvariant("effectvol");
      playsample(sfx, 0, vol,vol, 100, 0);
   }
}

Don't forget the system SFX volumn....

[slash128]

how i call the script?
i try @cmd playsound and @cmd play sample but not work