setSoundEffect

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Description

Description:

Defines the different sound effects. To stop any sound, deactivate the trigger (might take up to 0.5 seconds to stop) or delete the trigger (immediate).

Groups:

SoundsTriggersWaypoints

Syntax

Syntax:

trigger setSoundEffect [sound, voice, soundEnv, soundDet]

Parameters:

trigger: Object

sound: String - Plays a 2D sound as if playSound was used from CfgSounds (mission or main config)

voice: String - Attaches a 3D sound from CfgSounds (mission or main config) to the object that activated the trigger and plays it as if say3D was used

soundEnv: String - Plays an environmental sound from CfgEnvSounds (mission or main config)

soundDet: String - Creates a dynamic sound object attached to a trigger defined in CfgSFX (mission or main config)

Return Value:

Nothing

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

waypoint setSoundEffect [sound, voice]

Parameters:

waypoint: Array - format Waypoint

sound: String - Plays a 2D sound as if playSound was used from CfgSounds (mission or main config)

voice: String - Attaches a 3D sound from CfgSounds (mission or main config) to the object that activated the trigger and plays it as if say3D was used

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

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

Example 2:

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

Example 3:

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

Example 4:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["", "", "BattlefieldExplosions3", ""];

Example 5:

_trigger setSoundEffect ["", "", "", "Owl"];

Additional Information

See also:

createTrigger setMusicEffect setTitleEffect

Notes

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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 ["$NONE$", "", "BattlefieldExplosions3", ""];

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 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" ];