Localizing playSound for pilot/gunner.

[Howard 0]

Hi, everyone.

I'm making a mission solely based on John Spartan & Saul's F/A-18 mod.

(http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?164308-F-A-18-Super-Hornet-for-ARMA-3)

I've added an element of danger to the mission by making a script which will drain the aircraft's health to 0 after it falls below ~75%.

Along with this I also have added "bitching betty" audial warnings when the aircraft aircraft starts being drained and after it falls below 16% health.

Now, this is a multiplayer mission and I've been having some trouble with the warning sounds...

Initially I tried using "playSound" for playing the warnings, but I noticed that I could hear these while outside of the vehicle and at any range.

I've tried using "say" & "say3D" as well, but I can hardly hear these sounds inside the vehicle (but they can be heard very well in 3rd person). I think this might be an issue with the F/A-18 mod.

So I've been wanting to revert back to playSound but I can't figure out how I would go about making only the pilot & gunner of the aircraft that is being damaged hear what's being played by playSound

Here's a snippet of the script:

if (_minor && {damage _unit >= 0.16}) then {
	 _unit say3d "warning";
           _unit vehiclechat "WARNING";
           sleep 1;
           _unit say3d "systemsfailure";
           _unit vehiclechat "SYSTEMS FAILURE";
		_minor = false;

_unit is defined as "this" in a parameter in the initialization line of each aircraft.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[SilentSpike 84]

playSound already has local effect (according to the Biki). So it's just a case of checking whether the player is in the aircraft before playing the sound.

I don't have time to look into that right now, but if nobody else answers before I get back I'll take a quick look.

---------- Post added at 17:33 ---------- Previous post was at 17:14 ----------

I'd do something like this, this would need to run on each client:

{if (_x == player) then {playSound["warning",true];playSound["systemsfailure",true];};} forEach (crew _unit);

Note that I'm by no means a seasoned script writer, so there could be a more optimized way of achieving this.

[Howard 0]

Got it working! Thanks.