How to make sirens like in GTA 5?

[dezkit 28]

In GTA 5 police/service vehicles you have 1 button that throws out multiple sounds.

 

If you hold down X, you get sound #1, once you let go of button X, the sound stops, otherwise it loops.

If you press once the same button down X, you get sound #2, which loops. However when you hold down X while sound #2 is looping, sound #2 stops, and plays sound #3. 

 

Maybe this can be done solely using CfgWeapons, where button X is left click?

 

Would this be possible to recreate in arma 3 using scripting? Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks

[dreadedentity 278]

Do you have a video that shows what you're describing?

 

Either way, there are multiple issues that will make doing this a headache

[driftingnitro 38]

You'll be better off looking how some mods create sirens in the first place. If you're looking into making it a certain control scheme than you'll have to follow directions on scripting custom key commands.

 

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=23712

[dezkit 28]

You'll be better off looking how some mods create sirens in the first place. If you're looking into making it a certain control scheme than you'll have to follow directions on scripting custom key commands.

 

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=23712

 

That mod has a simple system for sirens. Just a useraction for different sounds. I am asking for a script where 1 input gives different outputs depending on how and when you use it.

[Joe98 92]

You can use a trigger to trigger a siren.

[Yuval 29]

displayAddEventHandler seems to be what you want. I'm no genuis at this but I think music is layered like cutRsc and cutText. If it's not, and you can't stop a sound either any way you're in deep trouble to make it work.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/displayAddEventHandler

[inlesco 233]

Why don't you really post a video so we can analyze this?

[MarkCode82 21]

[] spawn { (findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown",{

if (_this == 21) then {

_timeCurrent = time;

while {_timeCurrent < 0.2} do {

_timeCurrent = _timeCurrent - time;

playSound ["siren",1];

};

};

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DIK_KeyCodes

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/time

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/say3D

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/say2D

[dezkit 28]

Why don't you really post a video so we can analyze this?

I apologize. I can't find a video on youtube that shows it, but I will upload one later today to give an example.

 

 [] spawn { (findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown",{
if (_this == 21) then {
   _timeCurrent = time; 
   while {_timeCurrent < 0.2} do {
   _timeCurrent = _timeCurrent - time;
   playSound ["siren",1];
      };
   
};
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DIK_KeyCodes
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/time
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/say3D
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/say2D

Thank you. That honestly looks very clever, using time and such. I will try this out.

[MarkCode82 21]

You'll have to account for defensive programming to make it "do what you want" but you get the general idea.