'this' is the weapon itself, so perhaps when it adds players by PVS, it doesn't find your player because the player isn't in the weapons PVS.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aha, got it to work by doing CPASAttenuationFilter filter( GetPlayerOwner() > ); > Though it makes me kinda wonder what it was about filter( this ) that > didn't always work correctly. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ryan Sheffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 1, 2008 4:41:07 PM > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sound only playing when player is not touching the > ground > > I only have suggestions but they are worth a try. > Change your CPASAttenuationFilter filter( this ); filter to NULL or a > filter > which has no rules to see if its a bad filter, and if that's the problem > then figure out what isn't passing. > If its not that then check if CHAN_STATIC is causing the problem, change it > to CHAN_WEAPON for example. > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm...apparently Yahoo mail doesn't like to reply to the list anymore > when > > I hit reply. So I couldn't find anything particularly interesting in > > CSoundPatch. I also did some more testing, and things just got more > > confusing. Apparently, the sound will work when I'm standing on some > > surfaces, but not on others. I wasn't able to find any sort of pattern > > among the surfaces it did work on versus the surfaces it doesn't work on. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: "Adam "amckern" McKern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming <[email protected] > > > > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 4:40:02 PM > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sound only playing when player is not touching > the > > ground > > > > Have you checked the code behind m_sndCannonCharge??? > > > > Might be something there. > > > > Adam > > > > -------- > > Owner Nigredo Studios http://www.nigredostudios.com > > > > > > --- On Mon, 9/1/08, Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [hlcoders] Sound only playing when player is not touching the > > ground > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 6:45 AM > > > Hi, > > > So I'm trying to give a weapon a charge up sound like > > > the gauss gun on the jeep, and so I pretty much just copied > > > and pasted the relevant bits of code to play the sound. > > > However, the sound will only play when the player starts > > > shooting while they aren't touching the ground. If the > > > player is touching the ground, the sound doesn't play. > > > Well, actually, it claims the sound is playing, but I never > > > hear it. > > > > > > CPASAttenuationFilter filter( this ); > > > m_sndCannonCharge = > > > (CSoundEnvelopeController::GetController()).SoundCreate( > > > filter, entindex(), CHAN_STATIC, > > > "Tau.GaussCharge", ATTN_NORM ); > > > > > > assert(m_sndCannonCharge!=NULL); > > > if ( m_sndCannonCharge != NULL ) > > > { > > > DevMsg( "Playing sound\n" ); > > > (CSoundEnvelopeController::GetController()).Play( > > > m_sndCannonCharge, 1.0f, 50 ); > > > > > > (CSoundEnvelopeController::GetController()).SoundChangePitch( > > > m_sndCannonCharge, 250, 3.0f ); > > > } > > > > > > The relevant soundscript entry: > > > "Tau.GaussCharge" > > > { > > > "channel" "CHAN_STATIC" > > > "volume" "VOL_NORM" > > > "soundlevel" "SNDLVL_NORM" > > > "wave" > > > ")weapons/gauss/chargeloop.wav" > > > } > > > > > > I've tried using a couple different channels for the > > > sound, but with no luck. Any ideas what I might be doing > > > wrong? > > > > > > Garrett > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the > > > list archives, please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > -- > ~Ryan > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- ~Ryan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
