[General] Adding Custom Sound to Ability

[MN Lahmar]

Hello guys, i'm using custom sounds and the problem is that i want the sounds to be heard if they are only in the player's camera range, else you stop hearing them ( just like the default abilities' sounds).
I uploaded the sound that i want to use and i tried this trigger. The problem is that the sound is heard throughout the entire map not in the area where it's being cast.

Cast Sound
Events
Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
Conditions
(Ability being cast) Equal to Crap
Actions
Set TempPointSS = (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast))
Sound - Play Crap_Sound <gen> at 100.00% volume, located at TempPointSS with Z offset 0.00
Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_TempPointSS )

 

[Alok]

Try this:
1. Go to the Sound Editor
2. Right-click your sound
3. Click Edit Sound Variable
4. Check the "3D sound" box
5. Check the "Stop when out of range" box
6. And set there other values also, like "Min" and "Max Distance" etc.

 

[Dr Super Good]

As Alok has hinted, you will need to configure the sound so that it has appropriate 3D properties.

I also think one needs to locally play the sound only if the point is visible to the player. Otherwise people will be able to hear it through the fog of war, which can then indirectly reveal the location of units. This also applies for special effects, which must only use a model (still need to be created for all players) when visible by the player.

 

[MN Lahmar]

True. The sound needs to be in wav format which is disastrous, 3sec i wav 300kb while in mp3 40kb. I think i'll pass.

 

[Chaosium]

You can import it as a .mp3 file and set the path to .wav in the import manager, game will be brained and it works :>

 

[Dr Super Good]

True. The sound needs to be in wav format which is disastrous, 3sec i wav 300kb while in mp3 40kb. I think i'll pass.

Wav should be compressed by the lossy PMC compression used by MPQ files. As such you need to look at compressed size and not uncompressed sizes.