[NewUser]

Could someone explain how I would use this?

Originally Posted by AMXX Funcwiki EF_EmitAmbientSound - Syntax: EF_EmitAmbientSound ( const ENTITY, Float:pos[3], const SAMPLE[], Float:volume, Float:attenuation, fFlags, pitch ) Type: Stock Notes:

My thoughts are:

new entity[33];
new position1[33][3] = {origin, origin, origin}
EF_EmitAmbientSound(entity, position1, NotSureAtAllHere, 1.0, NotSureATAllHere);

May I please have an explanatory example?

[Hawk552]

emit_sound ( id, CHAN_AUTO, g_szSound, 1.0, ATTN_NORM, 0, PITCH_NORM )

What is this?

id - entity to emit from
CHAN_AUTO - the channel to emit from. More details here: http://www.amxmodx.org/funcwiki.php?...=1#const_sound
g_szSound - any sound file, like "mysound.wav"
1.0 - volume
ATTN_NORM - attenuation level
0 - flags, not generally needed
PITCH_NORM - You can modify the pitch with this sound it sounds more high or low.

[NewUser]

I know how to use emit_sound. I was looking for the thing closest to "ambient_generic" that I could find. I don't want the sound to be emitted on a player. At an origin. Then again, emit sound might work at an origin?

new position[33][3] {origin, origin, origin}
emit_sound(position, CHAN_AUTO, "mysound.wav", ATTN_NORM, 0, PITCH_NORM);

[Hawk552]

Here's what you can do:

Case 1: You want to emit it on all players. Just client_cmd(0,"spk sound.wav")

Case 2: You want to emit it from an ambient generic.

Steps:

1) Create an ambient_generic (create_entity)
2) Set its origin and whatever other properties (entity_set_x, DispatchSpawn)
3) emit_sound on it

I'm not quite sure how to use EF_EmitAmbientSound, I'm guessing it's very similar if not the same as emit_sound.

[NewUser]

One last thing, how would I "replay" the sound after the file was finished playing. Other than an infinite set_task loop until it ends to execute it again.

[Hawk552]

Originally Posted by NewUser One last thing, how would I "replay" the sound after the file was finished playing. Other than an infinite set_task loop until it ends to execute it again.

Set EV_FL_nextthink on the ent to the end of the sound, and then play it on each think (using register_think)

I think there's a loop thing somewhere but I'm not sure how to do it.

[VEN]

Case 1: You want to emit it on all players. Just client_cmd(0,"spk sound.wav")

Normally just set attenuation to 0.0 (ATTN_NONE)

Case 2: You want to emit it from an ambient generic. Steps: 1) Create an ambient_generic (create_entity) 2) Set its origin and whatever other properties (entity_set_x, DispatchSpawn) 3) emit_sound on it

No: 3) use ambient_generic by other entity

Emit[Ambient]Sound flags

#define SND_SPAWNING        (1<<8)    // duplicated in protocol.h we're spawing, used in some cases for ambients 
#define SND_STOP        (1<<5)    // duplicated in protocol.h stop sound
#define SND_CHANGE_VOL    (1<<6)        // duplicated in protocol.h change sound vol
#define SND_CHANGE_PITCH    (1<<7)    // duplicated in protocol.h change sound pitch 

ambient_generic spawnlags

#define AMBIENT_SOUND_STATIC            0   // medium radius attenuation
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_EVERYWHERE        1
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_SMALLRADIUS      2
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_MEDIUMRADIUS    4
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_LARGERADIUS      8
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_START_SILENT    16
#define AMBIENT_SOUND_NOT_LOOPING      32 

Normally ambient_generic is looping.

Also if you have an issues with ambient_generic look into Fall Scream plugin.

[Zenith77]

I'm probably wrong about this, I don't much about the way HL handles sound, but when you set the channel to CHAN_STATIC, it seems to repeat the sound endlessly.

[NewUser]

Would I put the ambient_generic code in public client_putinserver?

[VEN]

Depends on what did you mean by "ambient_generic code". ;)