How to disable specific sounds in some scenarios?

[rflive2701]

Hello everyone, this is my first post here and I hope I'm following all guidelines regarding how to ask questions on the forum.

I'm a Machine Learning Researcher and currently using ViZDoom as a platform for experiments with intelligent agents. I have this scenario called Health Gathering Supreme and I want to disable the sound that the player constantly emits because it is taking damage. I need this because I set other Things on the map to play sounds, and the task here is to find these objects by using the sound. However, since the player is always taking damage the noises get mixed up making the task of finding the correct sources harder than it should be.

I'm pretty new to Doom Editing, but I managed to place the new objects that I want on the map and also managed to make them emit different sounds. So as a player, I can hear them but also listen to myself "in pain" all the time.

On this topic, someone tried disabling another kind of sound, and the suggestion was to replace the "misc/secret" sound in the SNDINFO file with just an empty set of ". I tried the same, but I don't know exactly what is the equivalent of "misc/secret" that I have to disable.

Any suggestions or guidance will be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Jarewill]

You are looking for player sounds:

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$playersound	player	male	*pain100	dsempty
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain75		*pain100
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain50		*pain100
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain25		*pain100

You can also use dsempty if you want no sound.

[rflive2701]

You are looking for player sounds:

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$playersound	player	male	*pain100	dsempty
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain75		*pain100
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain50		*pain100
$playersounddup	player	male	*pain25		*pain100

You can also use dsempty if you want no sound.

Hey, thanks for such a quick response! I tried including these in the SNDINFO file, but when I launch the wad I'm getting this error:

Execution could not continue.

Script error, "health_gathering_supreme.wad:SNDINFO" line 2:
dsempty is not a player sound

However, I noticed that there's also a

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$volume soundname <volume>

function there that I just set to 0 for all "pain" sounds of the player and that did the trick! Thanks a lot!

[Jarewill]

Did you also replace the *pain100 with dsempty?
$playersounddup works differently in that it doesn't take a pointer to the sound file, but instead it takes a pointer to another player sound.
It's used to keep two sounds the same without having to specify a path to the sound again.