DRD Team

I want to make an optional DOOM player class, DoomGirl, and so far I know exactly how to do it except for the sounds. (At this point I only know how to replace all the default player sounds, but I only want the female sounds for the female class.) I can see in the SOUNDINFO lump for GZDoom that there are separate male and female sounds defined, but I don't know how to attach these to my custom class.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

All I can do is link you to the $playersound SNDINFO command.

That's exactly what I need. Thank you!

After successfully setting up all the sounds for my custom player class, I decided to add jumping and landing sounds to the default player for the sake of continuity. I did this in the SOUNDINFO lump of my wad like so:

$playersounddup player male *land *grunt
$playersound player male *jump dsjump

...with the .ogg files named GRUNT and DSJUMP.

The jumping sound plays just fine, but the landing sound does not play ever. Furthermore, whenever I try to rename the sound the executable gives me warnings that it is either not a valid player sound or that I cannot alter player sounds.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?

Try

$playersounddup player male *land grunt

instead of

$playersounddup player male *land *grunt

However, I would change the name of the grunt.ogg to something else (eg dsgrunt.ogg) simply because *grunt is a player sound name.

Here's an extract from my sndinfo

When I try that and then launch the game, I am given the FATAL ERROR warning message: "dsgrunt is not a player sound" and the execution stops.

What happens if you use entries like my SNDINFO (but using your DSGRUNT name)?

Enjay wrote:What happens if you use entries like my SNDINFO (but using your DSGRUNT name)?

Same result. Using DSMLAND as the name, the game loads fine but the sound does not play in-game.

(BTW I'm using GZDoom v1.7.00)

Herculine wrote:When I try that and then launch the game, I am given the FATAL ERROR warning message: "dsgrunt is not a player sound" and the execution stops.

That's because $playersounddup requires one of those special player sounds.

Herculine wrote:$playersounddup player male *land *grunt

That will play DSOOF sound when the player lands.


Now, what you want to do is use $playersound with DSMLAND (if that's the sound lump name) if you want it to play something other than DSOOF for the landing sound.
If the above doesn't work, then I have no idea what I'm talking about.


Edit: Oh, make sure the sound(s) is inside a directory called sounds if you're using zip/pk3, and is(are) out of any markers if you're using a wad.

Okay, it's working perfectly now. Thanks for all the help everyone.

Also, I probably owe you all an apology. I think when I was testing this sometimes I might not have been jumping far enough for the sound to trigger (it plays after longer jumps but not after shorter ones) so at some point here I may very well have been wasting our time so I apologize for my newbness.