Dlgeditor v2.3.0 how do I add sounds?

[Randydgx]

I use dlgeditor v2.3.0 and i want to add an alarm going off on my terminal. I see a place for sound, but how do i know what to put in there? Is it the filename under streamsounds? I tried that but I heard no sound.

Thanks,

Randy

[stoffe]

I use dlgeditor v2.3.0 and i want to add an alarm going off on my terminal. I see a place for sound, but how do i know what to put in there? Is it the filename under streamsounds? I tried that but I heard no sound.

 

This is probably better done using a placeable sound object for the alarm, since the sound would stop as soon as the terminal moves on to another node if you set the sound as Voiceover sound.

 

Create a placeable sound (UTS file) and place it in the game world next to the terminal (or where you want the sound to come from). Copy&paste an existing UTS file to make it easier to modify it, rename it to alarm.uts, and then set the following fields:

 

Continuous - 1

Interval - 1000

MaxDistance - 64 (radius in meters where sound can be heard)

MinDistance - 48 (radius in meters where sound is hard at full strength)

Positional - 0 (play everywhere in the area)

Priority - 21

Tag - alarm

TemplateResRef - alarm

Times - 3

Volume - 127

Sounds --> 0 --> Sound (ResRef) - amb_alarm_01 (or whatever sound you use)

 

Set everything else to 0.

 

Then run a script like this from the dialog node where you want to trigger the alarm:

 

void main() {
   object oSound = GetObjectByTag("[color=Yellow]alarm[/color]");    
   SoundObjectPlay(oSound);
   DelayCommand([color=Red]4.0[/color], SoundObjectStop(oSound)); 
}

 

Change the part in red to the Tag of your placeable sound, and the part in red to the number of seconds you want the alarm siren to sound.