enableEnvironment

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Description

Description:

Enable/disable environmental effects: ambient life and/or ambient sound.

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This command has to be executed after mission start: be sure to use e.g sleep 0.1; for it to take effect.

Influenced sounds among others are:

• bird sounds
• insect sounds
• waves
• wind
• rain
• sounds produced by air conditioners and similar
• 2.06 thunder (an already started sound will not be cut but future ones will be prevented)

Groups:

EnvironmentSounds

Syntax

Syntax:

enableEnvironment enable

Parameters:

enable: Boolean - false to disable ambient life and ambient sounds, true to re-enable it

Return Value:

Nothing

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Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

enableEnvironment [ambientLife, ambientSound, windyCoef]

Parameters:

ambientLife: Boolean - enable/disable ambient life (bees, rabbits, birds, snakes, fish)

ambientSound: Boolean - enable/disable ambient sounds (cicadas, owls, etc)

since 2.12

windyCoef (Optional): Number - 0...1 (default 1) howling wind at heights

Return Value:

Nothing

Examples

Example 1:

enableEnvironment false; // identical to enableEnvironment [false, false]

Example 2:

enableEnvironment [false, true]; enableEnvironment [false, true, 0.5]; // since Arma 3 v2.12

Additional Information

See also:

environmentEnabled fadeEnvironment environmentVolume initAmbientLife sideAmbientLife getAllEnvSoundControllers getEnvSoundController setSoundEffect Arma 3: Animals: Ambient System

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