setSoundEffect

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Description

Description:

Defines the different sound effects.

• Sound - plays a 2D sound from CfgSounds
• Voice - plays a 3D sound from CfgSounds
• SoundEnv - plays an environmental sound from CfgEnvSounds
• SoundDet (only for triggers) - creates a dynamic sound object attached to a trigger defined in CfgSFX

To stop any sound, deactivate the trigger (might take up to 0.5 sec to stop) or delete the trigger (immediate). Also use "$NONE$" to skip the sound (1st item), when there is none to be used (Example 3, 4, 5).

Groups:

SoundsTriggersWaypoints

Syntax

Syntax:

trigger setSoundEffect [sound, voice, soundEnv, soundDet]

Parameters:

trigger: Object

[sound, voice, soundEnv, soundDet]: Array of strings

Return Value:

Nothing

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

waypoint setSoundEffect [sound, voice, soundEnv, soundDet]

Parameters:

waypoint: Array - format Waypoint

[sound, voice, soundEnv, soundDet]: Array of strings

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["Alarm", "", "", ""];

Example 2:

[_group1,2] setSoundEffect ["Alarm", "", "", ""];

Example 3:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["$NONE$", "Alarm", "", ""];

Example 4:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["$NONE$", "", "BattlefieldFirefight1", ""];

Example 5:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["$NONE$", "", "", "Owl"];

Additional Information

See also:

createTriggersetMusicEffect

Notes

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Notes

Posted on October 2, 2013

Neokika

To avoid having to create a dummy sound definition, you can use $NONE$ instead. private "_trigger"; _trigger = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", position player]; _trigger setTriggerStatements ["true", "", ""]; _trigger setSoundEffect ["$NONE$", "", "BattlefieldFirefight1", ""];

Posted on March 7, 2012

old_man_auz

When using this function, I found that if the parameter sound was empty, then you would always get a 'Sound not found' error. The following code fixes this problem. You need to create a dummy sound. This is what example 3 is hinting towards. description.ext: class CfgSounds { sounds[] = {}; class NoSound { name = "NoSound"; sound[] = {"", 0, 1}; titles[] = {}; }; //Dummy sound needed for setSoundEffect command, due to stupid bug in engine. }; (code sample above written by 'CarlGustaffa' on the Bohemia Interactive forums.) script.sqf: _trigger = createTrigger[ "EmptyDetector" , _position ]; _trigger setTriggerStatements [ "true" , "" , "" ]; _trigger setSoundEffect[ "NoSound" , "" , "" , "Wind2_EP1" ];