how does the A_playsound work?

[monkeymaster69]

still me soo ive been trying adding a custom sound for the rifle that replaces the ssg but idk how it works i tried checking the doom wiki but still doesnt do the sound of the bang how do i fix it?

[Gianluco]

So, it's like this, right?

A_PlaySound ("Weapons/RifleShot", CHAN_WEAPON, 0.7, False, True, 10)

 

This is how it looks like on the Wiki

A_PlaySound [(sound whattoplay [, int slot [, double volume [, bool looping [, double attenuation [, bool local [, double pitch]]]]]])]

 

I think it's because you put "True" as the value for Attenuation, which is a double variable (purely numerical). Also, instead of numbers, you can put Constants, which are on the wiki. I don't use that value a lot, so I set it to the default constant (ATTN_NORM).

 

Kinda the same for local, which is a bool variable (True/False), but you put 10 (which idrk if it works, because I remember bools working with 0 and 1). 

 

Maybe you switched attenuation and local up? Try either swapping the values or removing them altogether, so the engine uses the default ones.

 

Btw, is there a specific reason you're sticking to A_PlaySound and not A_StartSound? PlaySound is deprecated and only useful for compatibility reasons.

Edited February 18, 2024 by Gianluco

[prfunky]

On 2/16/2024 at 11:59 AM, monkeymaster69 said:

still me soo ive been trying adding a custom sound for the rifle that replaces the ssg but idk how it works i tried checking the doom wiki but still doesnt do the sound of the bang how do i fix it?

 

You show in your screenshot the sound as "weapon/Rifleshot" in your DECORATE lump.

Do also have "weapon/Rifleshot" defined in your SNDINFO lump?

An excerpt from my SNDINFO:

 

//Enforcer fire sound
enforcer/fire     enfofire
//Fyredemon's fire breath
fdmon/breath      fyrbreth

 

So, you should have an entry in your SNDINFO which would look something like this:

//Rifle firing sound

weapon/rifleshot     browning

 

where "browning" is the name of the WAV sound you imported into your wad file.

lines that begin with // are comments btw.