Making your own announcements? Created 17 years ago2007-03-08 23:14:42 UTC by Bob452

I'm pretty sure it can be done... I usually hear it while I am playing in Sven Co-op maps. Like, that once announcer guy in TFC only you make it say whatever you want it to. I really really would like to know how to do this.

As far as I know, you use the speaker entity to play them, and whatever is spoken is set up in sentences.txt, just like you use scripted_sentences. If I remember correctly, the speaker sounds are all in the VOX folder in the PAK or GCF file.

Look here for more info.

And remember, you can't distribute your sentences.txt with a multiplayer map, because it'll override the one that's already there, and could mess some stuff up. For these circumstances, I'd suggest setting up a bunch of ambient_generics and a multi_manager to play them in order. That way, it can be localized too.

I do remember a hldm server which had a countdown in use, which used the vox voice.

Of course, what it can say is limited since it only plays a bunch of wave files in a folder somewhere. A real tts system would have been a nice touch, but unnecessary.

Do you think valve had anticipated the amount of homebrew (Is that the right word?) mappers making their own maps for their game? :

Possibly, given the amount of people already invested in Doom and Quake mapping. HL probably gave it a nice kick though.

Does anyone have a list of the announcement sound effects? The ones I have so far are: (in no particular order)

-Deeoo
-Dadeda
-Woop
-Bizwarn
-Buzwarn
-Bloop

And also

-Vox_login (I don't remember it being used in half-life though)

Browsing through sentences.txt, I notice vox Hazard Course entries, as follows:

// training room

TR_A three, two, one, deeoo(p110)
TR_B deeoo(p110) (p102 t20) target system deactivated

I imagine it's from the beta/alpha version of the Hazard Course. I found a picture of itNotice its all in one room, prehaps thats why in the liblist.gam the hazard course map is referred to as "training room"



EDIT:Ancient on-a-rail, perhaps?

Bloob is no vox sound effect. You probably mean doop.

well that took ages.

Muzzleflash - Bloob isn't one, that isn't what I wrote. I wrote "Bloop". Didn't know about doop though, Adding to list...

EDIT: you can't edit posts other than your most recent one? Odd, seems like an obvious feature to me.

that's ok. just completely ignore the list i slaved over.

An obvious feature? What's obvious is that it would utterly suck if someone changed an earlier post after everybody had already responded to it. It would just confuzzle everybody. :

confuzzle

Fake word confuzzles me.

Oh and hunter. I liked your list

WHISKEY01 (p130) buzwarn buzwarn (p98 e95) whiskey for gordon freeman immediately

Fake word, Urb? Just ask Snoop Dogg. He'll enlighten you.

That's a pretty useless way of compiling a list, The Hunter. Why didn't you just extract it and "dir > file.txt"?

Sorry The hunter - didn't mean to offend you or anything . I meant adding to the list on my first post, but you can't do that on these forums.

http://nostalgia.planethalflife.gamespy.com/halflife/screens/

a matter of checking the image address. ffsroflexpression

Blocky scientist!

Evil Barney:Lots of cool retro shots there.

Well, you aren't getting them, and neither is anyone else. They were part of the old Half-Life alpha, and they weren't ever leaked or anything, so too bad. :

Those shadows in early builds were nice. Not the blocky harsh ones, but there were smooth ones

Prehaps that evil barney is from the days when Barney was an evil character (see Wikipedia entry)