sound channels

(chavo_one) #1

I’m hoping someone has played around with this and knows the answer.

Other than the VOICE channel, that all of the official .sound scripts use, what are the channels that we can play wavs on?

The LDR says this:

playsound <soundname OR scriptname> [LOOPING]
Currently only allows playing on the VOICE channel, unless you use a sound script. Use the optional LOOPING paramater to attach the sound to the entities looping channel.

And it made me wonder what the other channels are. If there is another channel, then I’m hoping I can play two sounds at the same time with the wm_teamvoiceannounce command, by putting one on the VOICE channel, and the other on a different channel.

Also what does “streaming” in the .sound file mean? Are there other options we can use instead of streaming? That’s another thing the LDR doesn’t talk about, setting up a .sound file.

(chavo_one) #2

one :bump: is allowable right?

(SiliconSlick) #3

Dunno if it helps…

strings cgame.mp.i386.so

includes the below grouping of strings that
might be the different channels.

channel
local
announcer
body
voice
weapon
item
auto
global
streaming
looping
sound

You could try some of them (body/weapon/announcer)
and see what happens???

Using some of them will probably break something
(e.g. using the weapons channel (if there is one)
might break weapon noises).

SiliconSlick

(chavo_one) #4

Thanks for this info. :slight_smile:

At least it gives me something to try. I’ll report back if I find anything useful.