Play A Sound When the Automap is Opened

[SiMpLeToNiUm]

How would I go about adding a sound effect when the automap is opened and closed?

Auxillary question:

How do I make the automap disabled until you pick up an item in the level?

Thanks

[cortlong50]

damn thats a good question. youre going to need a script that causes two things.
whatever the hell the ACS command is for opening the automap (i did a quick search but didnt find anything so im gonna leave that for you.)
and one to play the sound (duh..right?)

youre probably going to need to define it in the KEYCONF lump

---

addkeysection "WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL YOUR PROJECT" Automap


addmenukey "OPEN AUTOMAP" maptoggle
alias weather_toggle "Use Action_MAPTOGGLE"
defaultbind tab maptoggle

then in your ACS lump youll need to do something like this (at least this is what i would do)

---

script WHATEVER NUMBER YOU WANT (void)
{



if (CheckInventory("MAPOPEN")==1) WFX_MAPr=1;
if (CheckInventory("MAPOPEN")==0) WFX_MAP=0;

}

THENNN in your decorate lump (just make a new one for your automap)

---

ACTOR Action_MAPTOGGLE : CustomInventory
{
Inventory.Amount 1
Inventory.MaxAmount 1
-INVBAR
+UNDROPPABLE

States
I SUCK AT DECORATE SO IM NOT EVEN GOING TO PRETEND TO WRITE THIS.
BASICALLY YOU NEED IT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT USES A A_PLAYSOUND SPECIAL.



HERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE FROM J5S WEATHER SCRIPT.

ACTOR Action_WeatherToggle : CustomInventory
{
Inventory.Amount 1
Inventory.MaxAmount 1
-INVBAR
+UNDROPPABLE

States
{
Use:
TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfInventory("Flag_NoWeather",1,1)
Goto StopEffects
TNT1 A 0 A_Print("Weather effects ON")
TNT1 A 1 A_TakeInventory("Flag_NoWeather",999)
TNT1 A 1 ACS_ExecuteAlways(941,0,0,0,0)
Fail
StopEffects:
TNT1 A 0 A_Print("Weather effects OFF")
TNT1 A 1 A_GiveInventory("Flag_NoWeather",1)
TNT1 A 1 ACS_ExecuteAlways(941,0,0,0,0)
Fail
}
}

replace everything in that last decorate actor with the shit you need and you can probably make something happen.

not even sure why i chimed in on this...youre asking for something complicated and im decent at ACS and decent at decorate...but working with both is always bad for me.

[SiMpLeToNiUm]

damn thats a good question.

Indeed, but I think I'm getting somewhere with it.

whatever the hell the ACS command is for opening the automap (i did a quick search but didnt find anything so im gonna leave that for you.)

I have found by digging through the menu options at least that when you type togglemap into the console it does exactly that. Perhaps there is a hacky way to find the value of togglemap (a true or false perhaps?) and act afterwards.

not even sure why i chimed in on this...

Nonetheless, I appreciate it. I think you steered me in the right direction, so thanks for that!

[Nash]

The only available way to read the status of the automap is the ZScript global variable automapactive. Be careful when using this, and be sure to make sure that the sound is only playing in the UI channel and only for the specific player with consoleplayer.

[SiMpLeToNiUm]

https://zdoom.org/wiki/CCMDs:Customization

mapbind [key] [command]
This command works just like bind, except it controls the action that occurs when the automap is displayed. (Panning controls are ineffective on the overlay map.) A list of automap-specific controls may be found here.

This also looks promising.

*EDIT
It would be so much easier if GetPlayerInput had an INPUT_AUTOMAP parameter.