Help needed with phone ring/answer script & say3d looping.

[Mantup 10]

Hello, I've really hit a brick wall on this. I would be extremely thankful to anyone who could help. I am an experienced mission maker, as far as working the in game editor I've been doing it since OFP. However, scripts to me may as well be written in a alien language... I am pretty good with using the init field "scripts" or commands but as far as creating a .sqf and all the workings with that I'm lost. I also already know about .ogg creation and placement in the mission folder ect. So I will proceed with my situation:

Situation One:

I have painstakingly furnished and modified a home with vanilla objects as well as ARP2 mod pack. In the series I've planned the player will be playing the role of a low level enforcer for the mob after the Altis war. In the ARP2 pack there are a couple house phone objects, can someone help me with making a script that would allow the phone to ring via say3ds and then the player be able to walk up to it and select a "Answer Phone" action from the scroll wheel which would que the audio dialogue?

Situation Two:

The first mission in the series is going to require a trip to a local party. I already have the .ogg sound file for the music, and the music must be emitting from the party location via say3d. This is about the best I can do without making a script, I have been able to produce the 3D sound with this but not a "turn on/off radio" toggle or able to have the song play in a loop.

I have made a trigger and have it set to Blu present and it's init I have: [box say3d "intro"] box being the object & intro the .ogg, this method works but has no toggle on/off and only plays the audio once.

in my Description.ext:

class CfgSounds

{

// List of sounds (.ogg files without the .ogg extension)

sounds[] = {intro,music};

// Definition for each sound

class intro

{

name = "intro"; // Name for mission editor

sound[] = {\sounds\intro.ogg, 0.2, 1.0};

titles[] = {0, ""};

};

class music

{

name = "music"; // Name for mission editor

sound[] = {\sounds\music.ogg, 0.4, 1.0};

titles[] = {0, ""};

};

};

I do not even have a init file, nor specific action script. I have tried using bits a pieces of other scripts from armaholic but they always end up with lots of errors ect. I would really be appreciative if anyone could help me out on this. I will check back here periodically and if anyone with these sort of skills could add me on Steam @ [Mantup] "no brackets" that would be great.

Thanks for taking the time to look over this and hopefully help.

[jshock 513]

For your first situation:

After some triggered event (if using a trigger, put this in the onAct field):

nul = [nameOfPhone] execVM "phoneRing.sqf";

//phoneRing.sqf
_phone = (_this select 0);
glb_answerPhone = false;
publicVariable "glb_answerPhone";
_answerAction = _phone addAction ["Answer Phone", 
{ glb_answerPhone = true; publicVariable "glb_answerPhone"; }, 
[], 
6, 
true, 
true, 
"", 
"_this distance _target < 3"
];

while {!glb_answerPhone} do
{
   _phone say3D "sound";
   sleep x; //where x is the length of the sound file
};

_phone removeAction _answerAction;

You can use some of the same methods displayed above for your second issue as well.

[Mantup 10]

Thank you, will this loop the phone ringing until someone activates the answer?

[jshock 513]

Thank you, will this loop the phone ringing until someone activates the answer?

Yeah it should, I'm not sure if there is a way to terminate a sound while it's playing though (in case the player answers in mid-ringing), other than maybe playing an empty sound, but I haven't messed with sounds much:

i.e.

//place this right above the removeAction line, but out of the while loop
_phone say3D "";

[SilentSpike 84]

I'm not sure if there is a way to terminate a sound while it's playing though (in case the player answers in mid-ringing)

I haven't tested it, but possibly deleting the source. That would mean you'd want to use some invisible helper object as the source though.