(Request) Help with 'On Player Death' trigger sound

[Headz]

Trying to make it so when player dies a custom sound plays local to death area, tried using input/output system with ambient_generic set to play local to entity ( teamspawn ) and nothing happens, is there a work around in lua for this, a bonus would be different sounds played depending what class dies.

Almost finished my ctf map called Pilkington just need this last bit to work and ready to go, many thanks if anyone can help.

[ddm999]

There will be a way to do this using the base code used in locations (if your map uses locations, it'll be easier to implement), and the function player_killed, but unfortunately I just don't have the time. Sorry. D:

Someone can help you though (prolly squeek knowing just how helpful he always is ;D).

[Headz]

No worries, its been a right ball ache, would be nice to have though.

[squeek.]

It's possible using Lua for sure.

Either something like (I forget if this works right):

local death_sound = "soundname"

-- sounds need to be precached
function precache()
	PrecacheSound( death_sound )
end

function player_killed( player, damageinfo )
	-- could test various things about the death here 
	-- and then only play the sound depending on certain conditions

	-- emit sound from the dying player
	-- EmitSound will play a sound from a sound script 
	-- (you can write a <mapname>_level_sounds.txt 
	-- in the maps folder if you want a custom sound I think, 
	-- see ff_waterpolo_level_sounds.txt)
	player:EmitSound( death_sound )
end

or something like (no clue if this would actually work, haven't moved sound entities before):

function player_killed( player, damageinfo )
	-- could test various things about the death here 
	-- and then only play the sound depending on certain conditions

	-- teleport the entity (like an ambient_generic or w/e) 
	-- with the given name to the location of the death 
	-- and then trigger it to play its sound
	local sound_ent_name = "entity_name"
	local deathpos = player:GetOrigin()
	local sound_ent = GetEntityByName( sound_ent_name )
	sound_ent:SetOrigin( deathpos.x, deathpos.y, deathpos.z )
	OutputEvent(sound_ent_name, "PlaySound")
end

The second method might get somewhat weird when multiple people are dying in rapid succession in different places around the map (the entity would be teleporting all around, I'm not sure how it'd sound).

Both are completely untested.

[Headz]

Thanks Squeek for info

first one diden't work
and 2nd gave me this error in console

[SCRIPT] Error calling player_killed ([string "maps\pilkingtonbeta.lua"]:305: attempt to index local 'sound_ent' (a nil value)) ent: NULL

also tried level_sounds.txt

[squeek.]

First one should work.

Here's what I'm using:

maps/<mapname>_level_sounds.txt

"customsound.test"
{
	"channel"	"CHAN_STATIC"
	"volume"		"1.0"
	"CompatibilityAttenuation"	"0.8"
	"wave"		"player/scream1.wav"
}

maps/<mapname>.lua

local death_sound = "customsound.test"

-- sounds need to be precached
function precache()
	PrecacheSound( death_sound )
end

function player_killed( player, damageinfo )
	-- could test various things about the death here 
	-- and then only play the sound depending on certain conditions

	-- emit sound from the dying player
	-- EmitSound will play a sound from a sound script 
	-- (you can write a <mapname>_level_sounds.txt 
	-- in the maps folder if you want a custom sound I think, 
	-- see ff_waterpolo_level_sounds.txt)
	player:EmitSound( death_sound )
end

You can learn more about soundscripts here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Soundscripts