say3D

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Description:: Unit or object will say given sound in 3D Space. This allows broadcasting of positional music or sound from a source, without having to script a fade sound or music command. Compare this with say2D which will always play a sound at the location of the player after he has been in the vicinity of a broadcasting sound. Sound is defined in "CfgSounds" of the Description.ext or main config.

NOTE: You can stop say3D sound currently playing in 2 ways: delete the source of the sound (from) with deleteVehicle or kill the source with setDamage for example.
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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:: Uncategorised

Syntax:: from say3D sound
Parameters:: from: Object - origin of the sound
: sound: String - classname of the sound to be played. Defined in CfgSounds including Description.ext
Return Value:: Nothing

Syntax:: from say3D [sound, maxDistance, pitch,isSpeech]
Parameters:: from: Object - origin of the sound
: [sound, maxDistance, pitch]: Array
: sound: String - classname of the sound to be played. Defined in CfgSounds including Description.ext
: maxDistance (Optional): Number - max distance at which the sound can be heard. Default: 100 m.
: pitch (Optional): Number - pitch of the sound. Default: 1.
: isSpeech: Boolean - play as speech through radio channel, fadeSpeech applies. If true, filters are not applied to it (i.e. house or vehicle interior one). Available since 1.91.145286
Return Value:: Nothing

Syntax:: [from, to] say3D sound
Parameters:: [from, to]: Array
: from: Object - origin of the sound
: to: Object - target
: sound: String - classname of the sound to be played. Defined in CfgSounds including Description.ext
Return Value:: Nothing

Syntax:: [from, to] say3D [sound, maxDistance, pitch,isSpeech]
Parameters:: [from, to]: Array
: from: Object - origin of the sound
: to: Object - target
: [sound, maxDistance, pitch]: Array
: sound: String - classname of the sound to be played. Defined in CfgSounds including Description.ext
: maxDistance (Optional): Number - max distance at which the sound can be heard. Default: 100 m.
: pitch (Optional): Number - pitch of the sound. Default: 1.
: isSpeech: Boolean - play as speech through radio channel, fadeSpeech applies. If true, filters are not applied to it (i.e. house or vehicle interior one). Available since 1.91.145286
Return Value:: Nothing

Example 1:: helicopter1 say3D "Fortunateson"
Example 2:: Workaround for dead bodies. private _dummy = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal ASLToAGL getPosWorld _corpse; _dummy say3D "whatever"; _dummy spawn { sleep 5; //Atleast the length of your sound deleteVehicle _this; };

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Posted on 7 March 2013
Rocket: The only difference with this command and say is during cutscenes (when some camera effect is active). In cutscenes, say3D is 3D, say is not.

Posted on July 19, 2015 - 21:26 (UTC)
Benargee: In Arma 2 1.63, the object this command is assigned to must be alive for the sound to broadcast. If the object is killed while the sound is still playing, the sound will stop immediately.
Here is a link to the forum to get around this issue: [1]
I have not tested this in Arma 3 yet.

Posted on March 11, 2017 - 14:43 (UTC)
Killzone Kid: This command creates sound object "#soundonvehicle" which can be detected with allMissionObjects: onEachFrame {hintSilent str allMissionObjects "#soundonvehicle"}; [] spawn {sleep 1; player say3D "Alarm"};

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