Why don't these sounds play in game?

[Ravick]

Hi there.

I have a few sound files/lumps that do not play when I call them in my mod. I've made a small pk3 with them, the section of the SNDINFO where they are assigned and a small Map01 to show how I try to use them.

I'm guessing it has something to do with their format (?), or some dumb mistake I'm missing.

If anyone could help me to figure out how to fix it, it'd be appreciated.

[wildweasel]

You're running into a limitation of the old syntax of SNDINFO: the 8 character lump name limit. N64GOLDE2, for example, is 1 character too long to be looked up in the "traditional" way.

You have two options here:

• Work around it by shortening the file names by a single character.
• Refer to them by full path name instead, i.e. Sounds\N64GOLDE2.ogg, which enables long file names as well as files of the same name in different subfolders.

[Ravick]

Thank you, Wildweasel!