SNDINFO modding help - randomising player sounds (Resolved)

[methoddan]

Hi,

I've been fiddling around with the SNDINFO file in order to add lots of custom sounds into doom, and make them occur a little more randomly.

I've managed to make 16 different death and pain sounds for each monster, no problem - all tested and working.

My next goal was to modify the 'player pain' and 'player death' sounds, add more, and make it a random choice from sounds I've prepared.

... yet no matter how I write the code lines, it doesn't seem to want to do this. Just adding more sounds under the same name resulted in no sound at all in the game, and for some reason the " $random " command didn't seem to be very well accepted.

Does anybody know how I could achieve my goal ?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Dan

[Kate]

player sounds are special, you need to define them with the player commands. However, you can use aliases to do what you are intending:

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player/death1 DSDIE1
player/death2 DSDIE2
$random player/death { player/death1 player/death2 }

$playeralias player male *death player/death

the last line is the key here, it aliases the *death sound (which is played when you die) to the player/death sound instead, which is created using the $random statement above it.

If you want an idea of what sounds the player uses, you can take a look at the [wiki]Predefined sounds[/wiki] which are somewhat self-explanatory. The wiki has an explanation on all of the commands [wiki]SNDINFO[/wiki] understands, as well. This should help.

[methoddan]

Ah, thanks very much !

I'd have never guessed there was any sort of 'alias' line - just tested and it works perfectly; thanks again

- Dan