Item Pickups that have their own PICKUP sound

[Hidden Hands]

Maybe someone can help me here. I'm trying to make a special jingle play when you pick up a key in my game. I only want it to play this for keys though, not health or armour or ammo. How can I make it so that just that one type of item plays the sound? Does it have to call an ACS Script? Because when I tried doing that, it plays the new sound but also the original sound at the same time. I only want it to play the one key jingle sound. Can it be done please? How?

Thanks in advance.

[Enjay]

The various pickup types already have their own sounds defined, it's just that they are mapped to the same sound lump.

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misc/w_pkup			dswpnup		// Pickup weapon
misc/p_pkup			dsgetpow	// Pickup powerup
misc/i_pkup			dsitemup	// Pickup item
misc/k_pkup			dsitemup	// Pickup key

So, if you just want to change all keys, map misc/k_pkup to your own sound lump in SNDINFO.

If you want any individual items to have their own specific sound, this can be done by defining a unique pickup sound in SNDINFO and then telling the item to use that sound as its pickup sound in its DECORATE or ZScript.

[Hidden Hands]

The various pickup types already have their own sounds defined, it's just that they are mapped to the same sound lump.

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misc/w_pkup			dswpnup		// Pickup weapon
misc/p_pkup			dsgetpow	// Pickup powerup
misc/i_pkup			dsitemup	// Pickup item
misc/k_pkup			dsitemup	// Pickup key

So, if you just want to change all keys, map misc/k_pkup to your own sound lump in SNDINFO.

If you want any individual items to have their own specific sound, this can be done by defining a unique pickup sound in SNDINFO and then telling the item to use that sound as its pickup sound in its DECORATE or ZScript.

Okay, so basically, if I'm getting this right, my SOUNDINFO should have this:

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misc/w_pkup			weappick	// Pickup weapon
misc/p_pkup			powrpick	// Pickup powerup
misc/i_pkup			itempick	// Pickup item
misc/k_pkup			keyspick	// Pickup key

But how would the engine know the difference? Do I actually need anything else or will adding this sound lump just fix all that? Does it know automatically to seperate them?

EDIT: Well I did it and it worked great. Wonderful work man, thank you so much!

[Arctangent]

For reference, the engine knows which sound to use because each superclass of item has its Inventory.PickupSound property set to the appropriate sound name, and the individual item types inherit that. If you ever need to give a specific item its own unique pickup sound, you can toss that into the item's definition and it'll work just fine ... provided you've set up the sound in SNDINFO, anyway.