[Bugzy]

The Team Fortress 2 Jungle Inferno Update added a new "whooshing" sound that indicates when you're about to take fall damage. Unfortunately, this is not very appropriate for Surf because you constantly keep hearing this sound. I've tried to block it by hooking normal sounds like so:

#include <sourcemod>
#include <sdktools>

public OnPluginStart()
{
	AddNormalSoundHook(SoundHook_Whoosh);
}

public Action SoundHook_Whoosh(int clients[MAXPLAYERS], int &numClients, char sample[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH],
	int &entity, int &channel, float &volume, int &level, int &pitch, int &flags,
	char soundEntry[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH], int &seed)
{
	if (strcmp(sample, "player/fall_damage_indicator.wav") == 0)
	{
		PrintToServer("Blocking %s", sample);
		return Plugin_Stop;
	}

	return Plugin_Continue;
}

Unfortunately, this approach doesn't work. When I tested the code, I found that SDK Tools isn't even detecting the sound at all. That is, the string called "sample" will never contain "player/fall_damage_indicator.wav". Is there anything I can possibly do?

[Chdata]

the sound could be something like ")player/" or whatever

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...und_Characters

[Bugzy]

Originally Posted by Chdata the sound could be something like ")player/" or whatever https://developer.valvesoftware.com/...und_Characters

You seem to be correct about the special sound characters. On line 2864 of the diff page, I listed above it reads:

"wave" ")player/fall_damage_indicator.wav"

Unfortunately, I don't know what to do with this information. Sorry for not being more clear but when I say sample will never be equal to "player/fall_damage_indicator.wav", I mean I had the function explicitly print out each and every single instance of sample to the chat. Furthermore, borrowing from Powerlord, we can use StrContains instead of strcmp like so:

public Action SoundHook_Whoosh(int clients[MAXPLAYERS], int &numClients, char sample[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH],
	int &entity, int &channel, float &volume, int &level, int &pitch, int &flags,
	char soundEntry[PLATFORM_MAX_PATH], int &seed)
{

	PrintToChatAll("Sample: %s", sample);

	if (StrContains(sample, "fall_damage") > -1)
	{
		PrintToServer("Blocking %s", sample);
		return Plugin_Stop;
	}

	return Plugin_Continue;
}

In practice, chat will never see "Sample: player/fall_damage_indicator.wav", so the StrContains comparison doesn't even have a chance to work. I suspect that this might be because the sound is being played client-side rather than server-side. Is there anything I can do to stop this?

[Powerlord]

Not all sounds are server-side. It may be that the client sees that it fell past a certain distance and plays the sound.

I'm not aware of a cvar to disable this, though.

[Bugzy]

One of the recent TF2 updates has since now fixed this problem.