#Half life source gmod sounds mod

In our specific example using the electric platform, you must click this flag, or the file will not start when you touch the trigger. This probably is only effective when doing music, which we will cover next. If you do not click this flag, the sound will play as soon as the map has loaded. Start Silent obviously does what it says as well. The Small Radius, Medium Radius, and Large Radius checks control how far you can be away and still hear the sound. We will cover how do counter this directional effect. Beware: this does not mean that the sound will play equally loudly through each speaker (as if you were just listening to an audio file) it only means that the distance you are from the sound does not matter. Play Everywhere pretty much does what it says. The flags are very important though, and you should make sure they are all correct before compiling. Generally, I leave all the properties at their default state, although you may want to mess around with them sometime. Now your sound should play when triggered, but there are some more attributes that you should look at first. Merely type in ambience/blah.wav (with a forward slash). WAV file, it assumes you are already in the sound folder.

#Half life source gmod sounds mod

Instead, type in the path relative to the mod directory sound folder. You should already have put your sound file in the correct folder, and you should already know its name. This next step is usually what causes most people errors: avoid using the browse tool. Go into its properties and select WAV name. Now you must work with the ambient_generic itself. Make the trigger trigger the ambient_generic. Place the trigger on the platform, where the player must be for the ambient_generic to play. Now that it has a name, create a trigger_multiple, or a trigger_once (depending on if you want the sound to play over again if you step on the platform another time). Name the entity something like elec_plat_sound so you can easily remember it.

The player can only hear the sound if he is facing in its direction, so in this case, we would place the ambient_generic right above the electric platform. Using the entity tool, put your ambient_generic in the exact spot where you want it to play. Now, you have to create your ambient_generic. Now that you have your sound in the right place, the next step is to use an ambient_generic to trigger it. If you are making a custom MOD, you must create a sound/ambience folder in order for it to work. If you are making a map for Half-Life, it must be in the valve/sound/ambience folder. Refer to the Making Custom Sounds tutorial for more details on that subject. After you have a sound in the right format, whether you make a custom sound, or find an already made sound, you must put it in the right folder. Make sure that the sound is 8-bit mono, otherwise it will not work properly, or might just not work at all. WAV format, which most of them usually are. Half-Life is very specific in its sounds format. The only difficult part is supplying the sound. When the player steps on this platform, you want it to make a sound. What if you wanted to add your own music or sound effects into the game? Well, we can do this simply through the ambient_generic entity. As we map for Half-Life, we usually don't have to add any audio effects, since we are mapping for an already coded game. There are the visual effects and the audio effects, both equally important.

Obviously, there are two main components to a game.