createSoundSource

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Description

Description:

Creates a sound source of the given type (type is the name of the subclass of CfgVehicles which is pointing to the sound defined in CfgSFX). The actual sound object created is of type "#dynamicsound" and could be detected with allMissionObjects. If the markers array contains several marker names, the position of a random one is used, otherwise, the given position is used. The sound source is placed inside a circle with this position as its center and placement as its radius. Some of the vanilla classes pre-configured in Arma 3:

• "Sound_Alarm"
• "Sound_Alarm2"
• "Sound_BattlefieldExplosions"
• "Sound_BattlefieldFirefight"
• "Sound_Fire"
• "Sound_SmokeWreck1"
• "Sound_SparklesWreck1"
• "Sound_SparklesWreck2"
• "Sound_Stream"

Since Arma 3 v1.70 it is possible to define sounds for use with createSoundSource in mission config. As mentioned earlier, the sounds needed for this command should be defined inside CfgVehicles class, which itself references CfgSFX class. If given class searched in main config and is not found, the search will continue in description.ext. Here is an example of suitable mission config definition:

// description.ext
class CfgSFX
{
	class MyOwl
	{
		sound0[] = {"@A3\Sounds_F\environment\animals\birds\owl1", db-10, 1.0, 1000, 0.2, 0, 15, 30};  // path to addon sound
		sound1[] = {"@A3\Sounds_F\environment\animals\birds\owl2", db-10, 1.0, 1000, 0.2, 0, 15, 30};  // path to addon sound
		sound2[] = {"@A3\Sounds_F\environment\animals\birds\owl3", db-10, 1.0, 1000, 0.2, 0, 15, 30};  // path to addon sound
		sounds[] = {sound0, sound1, sound2};
		empty[] = {"", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
	};
};

class CfgVehicles
{
	class MyOwlSound // class name to be used with createSoundSource
	{
		sound = "MyOwl"; // reference to CfgSFX class
	};
};

_owl = createSoundSource ["MyOwlSound", position player, [], 0];

Note that the sound created by createSoundSource will always be looping. Also when CfgSFX sound definition contains more than 1 sound, there is no guarantee that the sound played will be the same on every PC in Multiplayer.

Problems:

⚠

For some unknown reason if at the moment of command execution the player is in first person view and is inside a vehicle, the sound created is greatly attenuated.

Groups:

Broken CommandsSounds

Syntax

Syntax:

createSoundSource [type, position, markers, placement]

Parameters:

type: String - CfgVehicles class

position: PositionAGL, Position2D or Object - Desired placement position

markers: Array - If the markers array contains any markers, the position is randomly picked from array of given markers plus desired placement position. If any of the markers were given z coordinate with setMarkerPos, the sound will also be created at given z coordinate

placement: Number - The sound is placed inside a circle with given position as center and placement as its radius

Return Value:

Object

Examples

Example 1:

_soundSource = createSoundSource ["LittleDog", position player, [], 0];

Example 2:

[] spawn { _alarm = createSoundSource ["Sound_Alarm", position player, [], 0]; // starts alarm sleep 10; deleteVehicle _alarm; // stops alarm };

Additional Information

See also:

playSound playSound3D sideRadio say say2D say3D playMusic playSoundUI

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