Sound effects of streaming weapons

[MR.D]

Supporting Looped .wav files is the best way to allow for streaming or constant firing weapons.

It should be a very easy task to add this into the sound code.

Most free download sound editing software will allow you to save with a loop marker inside the soundfile itself.

[rattle]

Looped sounds are great for beam lasers and ambient noises in general.

[Jools]

From Cavedog themselves, in WEAPONS.TDF:

// This stuff affects the sounds the weapons make

// soundstart = Sound to make when the weapon fires
// soundhit = Sound to make when the weapon detonates (if the weapon detonates)
// soundwater = Sound to make when the weapon hits the water
// soundtrigger = Make the weapon sound when the weapon fires in burst mode

In XTA, weapons still have a soundwater tag, but it seems to be ignored nowadays. Does anyone know how the engine handles sounds when projectiles hit on water instead of on land in modern spring? Do I have to manually call the water sound effect by using "Spring.PlaySoundFile()" ?

[knorke]

old topic is old.

Does anyone know how the engine handles sounds when projectiles hit on water instead of on land in modern spring?

What mod does that?
I looked at LuaWeaponDefs.cpp and some other files and it seems like there is only "soundHit".
Did not find anything relating to "soundWater" but maybe I am wrong.

[Forboding Angel]

I dunno if I've ever heard of soundWater. Also, don't necro threads!

[Jools]

Well, there are two weapons still present in latest xta that uses those tags, namely [METEOR] and [HAILSTORM]. By latest xta I mean 9.66.

I know those weapons are probably a remaint of OTA days, but at some point a decision has been made to abandon those tags, and I wonder if there is any replacement. Don't we need a splahs sound when things hit water? There are tons of splash sound effects in the sounds folder, in both xta and ba mods. Aren't they used?

[FLOZi]

You could do this with lua, but it would be expensive.

+1 for implementing to OTA tag.

[knorke]

I think the engine does ground/water/unit/air detection already for CEG effects anyway so it should be possible?
+1 for ricochet sounds.

[FLOZi]

Someone make a mantis request

[jK]

bad idea to implement the OTA tags.

The real solution would be to add a SFX class to the CEG system and to decouple such sounds totally from the unitdef.

[FLOZi]

weapondef?

Anyway, you might sometimes want to use the same CEG with a different weapon (S44 does this!) and if the sound is a CEG property, that means making multiple copies of CEGs.

=> sounds are a weapon property.

[Forboding Angel]

^^ this