Ambient Sound

[Spartan]

For anyone who has problems getting sounds to play again during the next round in CSS there is an easy solution. Give all the sounds the same name. Then create a trigger at both spawn areas that will trigger the sounds at the beginning of each round.

[Pureferret]

I have two ambient sounds, at full volume, trigered bt a logic_auto. No sound. This is in Hl2DM.

[Panda]

can some1 pm me and tell me exactly how to trigger it i cant find anything i got trigger multiple but i probly set it up wrong and need help ..... im trying to loop rainsound through the rounds but cant plz pm me

[slayera]

Well, I an not PM you, just posting here to help other noobs.

Make a bush over you spawn area.
Texture it with the trigger tool.
Make it an entity (ctrl-t) and select Trigger_once.
While still in the entity's properties select the output tab.
Set to OnTigger, your sound's name, and Playsound.

On the ambient generic properties, name your sound, make sure it matches the name in the targeted entity in the tigger, it should be bold if you setup right.

Now, when the 2nd round start you should hear your sound play, because the player will instantly set the trigger.

[Panda]

i just dont get it.... i have tried all the things i can with trigger_once and got jsut 1 round ...( this is for CSS if that makes a difference)

[Yaminoxi]

^ tell me about it Ive spent so many hours doing tuts n compiling just to get sound working in CSS its not funny, and NOTHING works ffs.

[Opheliar]

how do i add music? is there a tutorial?

[Opheliar]

How do i add music? WITH AN AMBIENT SOUND?

[KILLA-COW]

Logic_auto will also start it each time the map loads

Onmapstart
sound1
play

[OVERLROD]

How can you make the ambient_generic to STFU!? It playes perfectly normaly when it's triggerd by a button (Opens door, a_generic makes the door's moveing sound) but it also stays on forever. T ried thiggering it to stop by putting a few sec time delay on the swich/button, I made an output saying it to stop when te door is fully opened or closed, I even tried using logic_timer! It just won't STFU!

[dead7iest-weap0n]

ok, I have one sound assigned to play all throughout my map, and another that is in a small area. The one in the small area does not play. I set it to a trigger, and it still dosent work.
edit: hmm, it seems that my sounds dont work if I uncheck play everywhere.

[sawo]

Loopin sounds in CSS :
open your windows clock window(or use watch or whatever u want)

play your sound from the ambient_generic and count how many seconds it will play once(for example my ambient/levels/canals/windmill_wind_loop1.wav is ~12 seconds)

Now make logic_auto
Goto refire interval and set the length of your sound file(if the length is 12 seconds then type 12)
Now go to outputs and add new one:
Output name: OnTimer
Target entity: the name of your ambient_generic
Via input: PlaySound
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Now u have looping sounds in css
*If you want to be more precise, extract the sound from the GCF with GCFScape(use google to find it) then play the wav with winamp or some other sound player and check the exact length of the sound file and type it in the Refire interval key in the logic_auto
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if you still have problems - 217864911 or msn sawo_1337@hotmail.com
-GL & HF

[ZipIce]

i just dont get it.... i have tried all the things i can with trigger_once and got jsut 1 round ...( this is for CSS if that makes a difference)

I found that just using an auto_logic with the outputs in cs:s works well, example:
auto_logic
--------Outputs Tab---------------
My output name: onNewGame
Targets Entities Name:(ambient_sound name)
Via this input: PlaySound
Delay: 2.50 seconds (recommend delay x >= 1)
-------------------
ambient_generic
-------Flags------
Play Everywhere: (optional)
Start Silent: checked
Is NOT Looped: (optional)
--------------------------

This will activate looping or non looping sounds every round with a delay. Though if you want it to activate at different areas, you should follow what others said and use triggers.

[mikes852]

i want the sound to play when the user triggers it by walking into a trigger zone. but the sound just plays in the start whether im in the trigger zone or not. i tried using a trigger_multiple box and added the sound as an output to PlaySound OnTrigger.start silent is ticked and its not looped and does not play everywhere.