Location Settings

written by demagogue

This describes a method of doing ambient sounds in which entering a "location" zone (the area inside a set of portals) turns on an omni ambient inside that area, then turns it off when you leave, possibly starting a new ambient for the new zone.

It uses three entities: a special speaker (speaker_zone_ambient), info_location's, and location dividers.

Set up

Create a speaker_zone_ambient entity in your blueroom (i.e., a room off to the side the player will never enter).

In the speaker's spawnargs, put the names of all the ambient sounds you want to play in your map. (This pre-loads the sounds into the speaker so there isn't a pause when they start playing.) Put it in this key/value form:

"snd_mansion" "mansion_tension01_z"

Writing in progress...

See also

• Adding ambient Sounds to your Map
• Sound File Formats