[micmacx]

Hi,
There are a lot of sound plugins but I haven't found any that play sounds randomly to add a certain atmosphere in your server, in my case it was for Halloween that I created this script.
For copyright I will not put any sound with the plugin, but I will explain to you how to modify downloaded sounds, then it will be up to you to take your responsibilities regarding copyright, in my case I used royalty-free sound databases, but when in doubt...

Since version 1.1, my plugin is modified based on the plugin:Admin Sounds 1.2.2 by Cadav0r
I used his way of handling precached sounds.

DESCRIPTION :

Plugin play automaticaly random sound every 40 seconds for make a certain atmosphere in your server. This plugin uploads sounds automatically to players. It plays sounds only to players who download them, which avoids having players tell you about red lines in their Day of Defeat source console.


INSTALLATION :
1. Prepare 26 sounds using these file names:
son1.mp3
son2.mp3
son3.mp3
.
.
.
son24.mp3
son25.mp3
son26.mp3
Sorry but i make this script in french, the translation for "son" is "sound".

2. Upload sound files in sound/yourfolder.
3. Upload plugin and change map, it will create cfg/halloween_sounds/halloween_sounds.cfg
4. Setting your folder in halloween_sounds.cfg

// Folder Name in folder sound
// -
// Default: "halloween_mx"
halloween_sounds_folder "halloween_mx"

5. Change map, it must work.

In halloween_sounds.cfg you can enable/disable the plugin, change the name of the sounds folder, change the time in seconds after playing a sound that another one will be played, change the volume of sounds.

PREPARE SOUNDS :

Convert valid MP3 file for your DoD:S servers using Audacity, Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
With this software you can convert all sound files to MP3.

1. Install Audacity on your computer.
2. Create a sound or download it.
3. Open sound in audacity.
4. On the left of the graph it should be written: Stereo, 44100Hz 32bits floating.If it is not 44100, you must select it at the bottom left in the “Project rate in HZ”, then in the Track menu–>Resample–>Validate.
5. Then in the menu: File–>Export–>Export to MP3.
6. A window opens and you must setting: bit rate mode-->medium, Quality -->128kbps, channel mode -->stereo, and save the file.


CHANGELOG :

03/10/2023 : Plugin 1.0
05/10/2023 : Plugin 1.1 : Modified way of handling precached sounds
17/10/2023 : Plugin 1.2 : Correction of the Cvar flags for automatic correctly created the configuration file with all the Cvars.

[knoxville101]

Can we just use random file names and not:

son24.mp3
son25.mp3
son26.mp3

Due to if you go to a different server that has this same plugin you'll only have the files from server A and not server B

[finishlast]

Think there is a cvar where you can make a random name for the folder instead.

That way it is not important to change the file names.

CreateConVar("halloween_sounds_folder", "halloween_mx"

Just set it to something special in the
halloween_sounds.cfg and then change the folder on your server to it.

[knoxville101]

Yeah I misread that. So I added 21 sound files to my server and changed the sample rate. I have other sounds on the server and those all work. For just this plugin I get the failed to decode error...

All files are 44100

Not sure why its not decoding...

[micmacx]

Hi,
It's not 21 sounds but 25 sounds (son1.mp3 ... son26.mp3) that you must create, otherwise at some point you will have problems. ;-)

+++. :-) :-) :-)

[knoxville101]

ok I'll add 4 more to make 25 and try it. Thanks

[knoxville101]

Have 25 sounds and still saying failed to decode.

[micmacx]

All right,
I have been on your server and I see 68 plugins, you are the only server that has more plugins than my server, this is not normal.

I tested on my server on and I also have the same thing but not for all sounds.

I'm going to try to modify the plugin, I remember that I had already had this problem and I had precached the sound just before playing it, which solved the problem.

You have some weird stuff on your server, you are using sourcemod 1.11.0.6934 and you have some plugins that are from old versions of sourcemod :

PHP Code:

 "Basic Commands" (1.11.0.6917) by AlliedModders LLC

 "MapChooser" (1.10.0.6528) by AlliedModders LLC
 "RandomCycle" (1.10.0.6528) by AlliedModders LLC
 "Map Nominations" (1.10.0.6528) by AlliedModders LLC 


I'm not saying that's it but it's weird.

I put my server in halloween mode if you want to test, skin, bonus round and automatic sound : steam://connect/82.65.74.77:27015

[knoxville101]

Yeah I test everything and there is no issues with those basic plugins. I have disabled the halloween for now. Have you seen the ambient Halloween plugin? I was using that but it only plays one sound. I want the multiple sounds like you came up with.

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=2555727

[micmacx]

OK,
I had the problem on an MP3 file(son16.mp3) on my server.
I modified my plugin based on the plugin:Admin Sounds 1.2.2 by Cadav0r
I used his way of handling precached sounds. But I had exactly the same error and exactly the same sound (son16.mp3). I edited the sound with audacity, resampled the track, exported the MP3 and it works.

So it's only a question of MP3 file encoding but not the plugin, but i will update my plugin.

If you want more explanation, here is my French site which explains how to make mp3 files for day of defeat source servers, so you can use your browser to tranlate it. ;-)

For the ambient Halloween plugin, I don't like the fog on the map because some players use hax cvar and disable the fog, which completely unbalances the game.