ambient file size restrictions? Created 17 years ago2007-11-17 06:43:32 UTC by klobb

ive been trying to get a full song to play on a custom map for counterstrike. the song is about 4 min long and is 1253kb. i converted it to 8bit mono and 11025khz using dbpowerAMP music converter. i have tags set as follows:
play everywhere
loud/large area
volume 10
i have tried sounds/ambience/kratos.wav and sounds/kratos.wav placing the .wav in both directories to weed out a directory problem. i think the file is either the wrong format, or too long? at any rate i do not get an error message. the song just doesnt play. any ideas?

First of all, why the hell you making the sound such a shit quality? Half-life can Handel a 16bit mono 22050hkz sound. Also, according to the info you have given me, the correct pathname is ambience/kratos.wav. The "sounds" bit is not needed. Also, if you are triggering the sound, than you need tick the start silent flag.

You also need to remove the cue points since it is a custom sound.

This can be done easily using Goldwave. Google it

You also need to remove the cue points since it is a custom sound.

Remove them? If he wants a sound to loop properly he needs cue points.

First of all, I think both of your paths are wrong, if the sound is in "...cstrike/sound/ambience/kratos.wav" then the filepath in the ambience_generic should say: ambience/kratos.wav

Anyway, according to this site, the maximum allowed length of a wav is 3 minutes.

thanks the filepath change fixed it.

Only watching the post and ......

Half-life can Handel a 16bit mono 22050hkz sound

Well , I don't know if you succesfuly played a 16 bit sound in-game. I had tried and they didn't work. I put all my custom sounds in the following format : 44100 khz 8bit mono . And the sounds are working perfectly.

madcow thanks for recommending goldwave it works great.