Accessing a Trigger's environmental sounds

[THobson]

A trigger can play some environmental sounds for example a bird singing.  

If I de-pbo the sounds in the mission I find all the components of the bird song, but not the song in its entirity, so clearly the coding behind the trigger is playing these individual components in some sort of random order to give a continuous and ever changing sound.

I want to be able to get at the sound that the trigger uses.  At the moment I am using triggers to play the sound, but this introduces lag and the need for global variables.  I tried using just one trigger and setPosing to where I want it, but it seems that if a trigger is setPosed it locates itself at sealevel - so I can't hear the sounds it is making because it is too far away.  I may resort to writing my own random snippet player and using a GL.  But before going there I thought I would check if anyone know how to access what is already built in to OFP.

[Planck]

Do you mean the sounds like:

hedgesparrow or

skylark etc.


Planck

[THobson]

Exactly.

[General Barron]

I would assume that it would be found somewhere in the game's config. Download one from the breath site (no link at hand), and try searching thru it. I'm sure there is just a list of random sounds, and random intervals at which to play those sounds. Sorry I can't help more.

[THobson]

Thanks.  I'll have a look.  This 'simple' task is turning into a nightmare

[Planck]

Yes, its in the cfgSFX section.

Small example:

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class skylark
   {
      sounds[]={"sing1","sing2","sing3","sing4","sing5","sing6","sing7"};
      name="$STR_CFG_SFX_SKYLARK";
      sing1[]={"animals\skylark7",0.01,1,0.1,0.2,0.4,1};
      sing2[]={"animals\skylark6",0.01,1,0.2,0.2,0.3,1};
      sing3[]={"animals\skylark5",0.01,1,0.1,0.1,0.2,1.2};
      sing4[]={"animals\skylark4",0.01,1,0.2,0.1,0.2,1.2};
      sing5[]={"animals\skylark3",0.01,1,0.1,0.3,0.4,0.75};
      sing6[]={"animals\skylark2",0.01,1,0.1,0.2,0.4,0.8};
      sing7[]={"animals\skylark1",0.01,1,0.1,0.1,0.5,0.8};
      empty[]={"","","","",1,5,40};
   };

The sounds of course are in the Sound.pbo in .wav and .wss format



Planck

[THobson]

I fear I need my hand held on this one.

I have the 1.91 commented config files and can find nothing that looks like  SFX.  I am either missing is or I don't have the right files to start with.

Once I have it how would I use it?  Is this something I would put in my description.ext and then use:

GL say "skylark" or playsound "skylark"?

[Planck]

I never thought about cfgSFX in description.ext, I'm not even sure if it would work.

You should be able to play all the sounds with playsound, I'm not sure how the game plays them or how it decides on the order.

I  imagine it is done by the game engine from the triggers.

I have posted below a complete copy of the cfgSFX section from the game config.bin.


Planck

[THobson]

Planck:  Thank you so much.  I must figure out how to get into bins and what to do when I get there.