Playing a vehicle sound from a mission script

[eagledude4 3]

I'm trying to play a sound through my mission script from a vehicle addon, but I'm getting an error that says "'no entry bin\config.bin/cfgsounds/winddown.sound'".

mission script:

_vcl say "winddown";

cfgsounds class from the addon:

class winddown {
	scope = public;
	displayName = "Wind Down";
	drySound[] = {"\il_vic\sounds\winddown.wav", 0.95, 1};
};

I realize I can add the sound to the mission itself, but I'd like to know if this way can work.

Edited November 5, 2012 by eagledude4

[kylania 568]

Are you trying to play a sound from an addOn as a sound in game on it's own or something? That's not a proper description.ext sound class there for use from the mission editor, that's from a config file for an addOn.

Copy "winddown.wav" to the sound folder under the mission and put this in your description.ext:

class CfgSounds
{
// List of sounds (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)
sounds[] = {winddown};

// Definition for each sound
class winddown
{
	name = "winddown"; // Name for mission editor
	sound[] = {\sound\winddown.ogg, db + 0, 1.0};
	titles[] = {0, ""};
};
};

Not entirely sure wavs will work and the Biki is too slow right now to check.

Edited November 5, 2012 by kylania

[twirly 11]

As far as I know .wav's do work... just less efficient.

In Kylania's example ... if you do use a .wav files... make sure the file extensions are .wav and not .ogg!

[eagledude4 3]

I'm sorry for not clarifying fully, Yes I'm trying to play a sound from an addon. And what you described kylania was exactly what I did when I said "I realize I can add the sound to the mission itself".

Edited November 6, 2012 by eagledude4

[kylania 568]

Umm.. this might work:

class CfgSounds
{
// List of sounds (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)
sounds[] = {winddown};

// Definition for each sound
class winddown
{
	name = "winddown"; // Name for mission editor
	sound[] = {\il_vic\sounds\winddown.wav, db + 0, 1.0};
	titles[] = {0, ""};
};
};

Also, today I learned that the pretty php code tags strip \ from text. Most unhelpful.

[AZCoder 921]

Try double \\, the first is an escape character in php.

[eagledude4 3]

Thanks again Kyliana, I'll give it a go.