[SOLVED]Play *surface sound using ZScript

[Laskow]

Hi.

I've seen there is a tricky issue to set $playersound in this forum and absolutely I'm the one who has a problem about it. Some sounds are played but others aren't.
For example:

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$playersound CustomPlayer male *gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playersounddup CustomPlayer male *surface *gasp 

In this case, the gasp sound is played correctly but the surface sound isn't played.

And,

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CustomPlayer/Gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playersound CustomPlayer male *gasp CustomPlayer/Gasp
$playersounddup CustomPlayer male *surface *gasp 

This isn't work for both somewhat.
Like the surface sound, somehow pain sounds and death sounds aren't played. I needed to make a hacky Event Handler for them. And *pain-drowning sounds aren't played like them, perhaps I'll need to create another hacky Event Handler for this...


I hope this can be solved to use the Event Handler or add something to the custom player class because the surface sound is hard-coded AFAIK.
Is it possible to handle the surface sound from ZScript or other definitions?


Note that I'm still using GZDoom 4.8.2 and the problem of playing *grunt and *surface sounds are fixed in 4.9.0, so probably this would be solved if I just update the engine though, I have a problem with $playersound in the first place.

[Laskow]

Well, I didn't need even using ZScript. Check the water level in the spawn state and jump to the state which just plays a sound.

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Gasp:
TNT1 A 0 A_StartSound("CustomPlayer/Gasp", CHAN_VOICE)
Goto Spawn

Personally I don't like to create a hack state like this though, I hope this will help people who are stuck the with the player sound problem.

[Player701]

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CustomPlayer/Gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playersound CustomPlayer male *gasp CustomPlayer/Gasp
$playersounddup CustomPlayer male *surface *gasp 

This isn't work for both somewhat.

This is not surprising because you need to use $playeralias here instead of $playersound.

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$playersound CustomPlayer male *gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playersounddup CustomPlayer male *surface *gasp

In this case, the gasp sound is played correctly but the surface sound isn't played.

This works for me, at least if I check the sounds via the playsound console command. Could you please post a small example mod containing this code to reproduce the issue?

[Laskow]

This is not surprising because you need to use $playeralias here instead of $playersound.

Yes, replace $playersound to $playeralias is the best solution I've ever seen in this forum. However...

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CustomPlayer/Gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playeralias CustomPlayer male *gasp CustomPlayer/Gasp
$playersounddup CustomPlayer male *surface *gasp

Or,

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CustomPlayer/Gasp "sounds/CustomPlayer/CustomPlayer_gasp.ogg"
$playeralias CustomPlayer male *gasp CustomPlayer/Gasp
$playeralias CustomPlayer male *surface CustomPlayer/Gasp

Despite *gaps work for both case, *surface doesn't.

This works for me, at least if I check the sounds via the playsound console command.

Yes, it works for me either. Somehow there are few types of the player sound cannot play through the $playersound or $playeralias. For example, *falling, *gasp and *grunt sounds play correctly using $playersound for me.
Although I haven't tested other types such as *usefail or *jump, only *surface, *pain and *death don't work just for now.

And it's hard to upload a mod because this is a part of my TC. Sorry. Not sure how to separate only things related to this problem from the 20MB+ file.

[Player701]

I've just tested the first method from your first post ($playersound + $playersounddup) myself, and I can hear the sound play when exiting water both when I still have some air left as well as when I've run out. Either you're doing something wrong (this is why I asked you earlier to send a self-contained example, if possible), or perhaps you're using an older version of GZDoom which might be bugged. I'm using the latest official release (4.10 as of now).

[Laskow]

Wow, I didn't know that the 4.10 has released and finally I can hear the *surface sound! Probably I was stuck with the 4.8.2's sound problem exactly.
I should have used the latest version (and I hesitate to update it because I've customized the engine...) before trying to a hacky way and post here. Thanks for helping me!!