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Title: ambience sound loop. [Solved]
Post by: Grimfist on 28 May 2009, 16:36:26

I have got a sound called 'battleambience' in my sound folder of my mission, i want it to play looping constatly everywhere on the map.i have found a script but dont know how to use it.

-this is my description

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class CfgSounds
{
// List of sounds (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)
sounds[] = {battleambience, battleabience2, Allah, fire, wind};

// Definition for each sound
class battleambience
{
name = "battleambience"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\sound\battleambience.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class battleabience2
{
name = "battleabience2"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\sound\battleabience2.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class Allah
{
name = "Allah"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\sound\Allah.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class fire
{
name = "fire"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\sound\fire.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class wind
{
name = "wind"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\sound\wind.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
};


-this is the script

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_i = 0
#loop
_i = _i + 1
playmusic "battleambience"
~15 - the length of the song
? (_i <= 5): goto "end"
goto "loop"

#end
ForceEnd
what do i do? ty

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: JamesF1 on 28 May 2009, 16:42:47

By the looks of it, I'd dump that script into an .sqs file, and call it from your init.sqf (presuming you want it to begin at mission start), or into a trigger's "On Activation" line.

Do bear in mind, that script will only play the loop 5 times.  For an infinite loop, you'd want:

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#loop
playmusic "battleambience"
~15
goto "loop"

Possibly including some way to escape the loop if you want to stop the sound (e.g. a global variable):

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#loop
playmusic "battleambience"
~15
? (stopMusic==1): goto "end"
goto "loop"

#end
ForceEnd


Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: Grimfist on 28 May 2009, 16:55:17

so would the .ogg need to bee in the music folder? (to hear it everywhere)

and how do i call it from the init?

ty for your fast reply

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: JamesF1 on 28 May 2009, 17:00:24

It'll need to be in whatever directory (relative to the mission.sqm file) you specified in the config.  So, in your case, that would appear to be the 'sound' folder (though I've not really looked at your config other than that).

To call an SQS script, use the exec (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=details&id=125) command, e.g.:

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exec "myscript.sqs"
If you already have an init.sqf file, then you can just add an equivalent line to that file.  However, if you don't have one, just make a file called "init.sqf" in the same directory as "mission.sqm", and put the relevant bit in there.

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: Grimfist on 28 May 2009, 17:28:24

hi ty but i have an error.

the black box appears in the corner and says

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'exec |#| ''scripts/ambienceloop''
Error missiong ;

do i have to do anything in the mission editor with a trigger?

this is what i have so far:

INIT

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; ****************************************************************
; Initialization script for Armed Assault
; This is a special INIT script file that runs before the
; mission briefing is displayed.
; ****************************************************************

exec "Scripts\Ambienceloop.sqs"

GRIM_CivKilled = 0;

mando_splash = compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "mando_splash.sqf";

if (Param1 == 1) then {dustoff =true} else {dustoff = false};

[[w1,w2,w3,w4,w5,w6],["w1","w2","w3","w4","w5","w6"]] execVM "HULK_REV\run.sqf";

exit

DESCRIPTION

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// NOTE: Your sound/radio files must be in the ...\mission\sound
// folder and your music files in the ...\mission\music folder.
class CfgMusic
{
// List of tracks (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)
tracks[] = {Track1, battleabience2, battleambience};

// Definition for each sound
class Track1
{
name = "IntroSong"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\music\Track1.ogg.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class battleabience2
{
name = "battleabience2"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\music\battleabience2.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
class battleambience
{
name = "battleambience"; // Name for mission editor
sound[] = {\music\battleambience.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
titles[] = {0, ""};
};
};
AMBIENCELOOP.SQF

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; ****************************************************************
; Script file for Armed Assault
; Created by: Grimfist
; ****************************************************************

#loop
playmusic "battleambience"
~15
goto "loop"

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: JamesF1 on 28 May 2009, 17:33:19

You need a semi-colon at the end of the exec command (sorry, I forgot to include it in my sample).

Try:

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exec "Scripts\Ambienceloop.sqs";

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: Grimfist on 28 May 2009, 17:35:44

no it still does the error.

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: JamesF1 on 28 May 2009, 17:46:53

I don't really call SQS scripts very often, but you may have to do your call to exec like this, instead:

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[] exec "Scripts\Ambienceloop.sqs";
Edit: A quick test confirmed this...  Just goes to show how often I call SQS scripts :D

Title: Re: ambience sound loop.
Post by: Grimfist on 28 May 2009, 17:54:35

ah cool, it works ty. ty m8!