Tiberian Sun - Ambient Sound

Archerknight · Civilian **Joined**: 16 Mar 2019

Hi all,

is it possible to insert some ambient sounds? for example dog barks or lake sounds. if it is possible to do this - is it also possible to loop any kind of sound effects?

Flaguna · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 3:33 pm Post subject:

What do you want to do with them exactly? Ambient sounds for maps?

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Ambient as in hearable all over the map, regardless where the players screen currently is focused, no. Only a few hardcoded sound effects play global, like the jellyfish PropulsionSoundEffect's

However you can do create local ambient effects with a little workaround
-create a dummy building (copy of an invisible light post)
-give this dummy building in art.ini an infinitely looped ActiveAnim
-give this dummy ActiveAnim via TrailerAnim another dummy anim which plays your sound and you can use TrailerSeperation to control the delay/interval at which the sound is repeated

You can also play with the key RandomLoopDelay, to give the sound a random delay. However be warned, that this might cause a sync loss in network/online games as soon as some kind of damage is also involved.

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Archerknight · Civilian **Joined**: 16 Mar 2019

Thank for the answers,

OK - creating a light post is an easy task for me.

[SOUDLITE]
Name=Invisible Light Post
Image=GALITE
InvisibleInGame=yes
Insignificant=yes
Selectable=no
Strength=6000
Armor=wood
TechLevel=-1
Nominal=yes
Sight=0
Points=30
Power=0
Crewed=yes
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=1
; LightVisibility=5000
; LightIntensity=0.2
; LightRedTint=0.05
; LightGreenTint=0.05
; LightBlueTint=0.01
ThreatPosed=0 ; This value MUST be 0 for all building addons
DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,LGSparkSys
Powered=true

But now I don't get the next steps.

I never really edited the art.ini - so I need maybe just an example what exactly you mean with ActiveAnim and also TrailerAnim .

Right now I'm confused.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

rules.ini
;add new anims to this lists end
[Animations]
: ;using TS Client, the last used number is 751=KODIAK_AD
752=SNDLOOP
753=THESOUND

[SOUDLITE]
Name=Invisible Light Post
Image=GALITE you want to have it use it's own art.ini section
InvisibleInGame=yes
Insignificant=yes
Selectable=no
Strength=6000
Armor=wood
TechLevel=-1
Nominal=yes
Sight=0
Points=30
Power=0
Crewed=yes
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=1
; LightVisibility=5000
; LightIntensity=0.2
; LightRedTint=0.05
; LightGreenTint=0.05
; LightBlueTint=0.01
ThreatPosed=0 ; This value MUST be 0 for all building addons
DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,LGSparkSys
Powered=true

art.ini
[SOUDLITE]
Cameo=LITEICON
Image=GALITE ;it can use the same SHP
Remapable=yes
Foundation=1x1
TerrainPalette=yes
NewTheater=yes
ExtraDamageStage=false
ActiveAnim=SNDLOOP

;this loops infinitely
[SNDLOOP]
Image=CLRANIM ;create a new clranim.shp with 10 empty frames of 1x1pixel canvas size
Rate=300
LoopCount=-1
TrailerAnim=THESOUND
TrailerSeperation=100 ;play every 100 timeunits (*) the anim

;feel free to give this dummy anim a better name
[THESOUND]
Image=CLRANIM ;use the same dummy SHP
Report=METEOR1 ;set here your sound effect (don't forget to also include it in sound.ini)

(*)no clue exactly how the delay is measured, frames or seconds.

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Archerknight · Civilian **Joined**: 16 Mar 2019

Thanks for the help!

Now I get it - thanks again! Very Happy