Random pitch shifting monster sounds

[Cacodoomonic]

I need a little help with this. Certain ports of DOOM gave random monster voice pitches. Meaning it sounded different each time you encountered a monster by random (i know this was universally hated for the most part). But this is something I want to replicate in my mod. How can I do this? I assume it is done with SNDINFO, but I cannot seem to find the function.

 

This is my sound info but it gives me an error on bootup.

//ZOMBIE MAN
$pitchshift Zombie/Idle 7.0
$pitchshift Zombie/Active 7.0
$pitchshift Zombie/Sight 7.0
$pitchshift Zombie/Attack 7.0
$pitchshift Zombie/Pain 7.0
$pitchshift Zombie/Drath 7.0
Zombie/Active  ZOMBIE03
Zombie/Idle    ZOMBIE01
Zombie/Sight   ZOMBIE05
Zombie/Attack  ZOMBIE04
Zombie/Pain    ZOMBIE06
Zombie/Death   ZOMBIE02

This is my error message:

Execution could not continue.

Script error, "CriesOfDoom.ipk3:sndinfo" line 371:
SC_GetNumber: Bad numeric constant "7.0".

I can't figure out what is wrong. I tried adding the range in triangular brackets also. Nothing.

 

edit: I removed the .0's and the game boots up now. However, the random pitch shifted voices still do not take effect. I'm not sure why.

Edited June 20 by Cacodoomonic

[Shepardus]

You need to have pitch shifting enabled in your sound options for it to take effect.

[plums]

If you use $pitchset you can set a random range that doesn't depend on "randomize pitches" being set in the sound options.

 

This will make the pistol shift randomly in a range between half-speed and double speed (probably far more than you want for a sound):

$pitchset weapons/pistol 0.5 2.0

 

Keep in mind that some people *really* hate random pitch shifting and this takes away the option for them to disable it.

Edited June 20 by plums

[Cacodoomonic]

8 hours ago, plums said:

If you use $pitchset you can set a random range that doesn't depend on "randomize pitches" being set in the sound options.

 

This will make the pistol shift randomly in a range between half-speed and double speed (probably far more than you want for a sound):

$pitchset weapons/pistol 0.5 2.0

 

Keep in mind that some people *really* hate random pitch shifting and this takes away the option for them to disable it.

So if I do this:

$pitchset Zombie/Pain 0.5 1.0

For example, the single wav file in the game will be randomly shifted from half pitch to normal pitch? 

 

17 hours ago, Shepardus said:

You need to have pitch shifting enabled in your sound options for it to take effect.

What do I do if I do not have a sound options? My entire mod uses a custom options menu and that detail isn't on it.

Edited June 20 by Cacodoomonic

[plums]

2 minutes ago, Cacodoomonic said:

For example, the single wav file in the game will be randomly shifted from half pitch to normal pitch? 

I don't know the details of what else you're doing, but yes that should work.

[Cacodoomonic]

1 hour ago, plums said:

I don't know the details of what else you're doing, but yes that should work.

Works perfectly, thank you so much.