Is it possible to get the tf2 theme music in game without having to actually add it as a custom sound? For example, one would think that the song "Archimedes" would be in the list of sounds, but alas, it is not. Am I missing something?
i know this has nothing to do with this vid but how do you get it where your cylinders only show the sides that you can see, like on the other side it's nodraw and when you go around it, it moves with you to where your always opposite to the nodraw, i have a map with several cylinders and i thought it'd help.
Wait so what's the directory for custom sounds in Garry's mod? I would assume its C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\USERNAME\garrysmod\garrysmod\sound But I've put it in there and it doesn't show up, even after refreshing it....
This is the only tutorial from you i cant get to work.. I put the sound file in the sound folder yet it doesn't show up in hammer. Its a .wav file. I restarted hammer and it jsut doesnt work.
Yeh i'm making a disco thingy...how can i make it so that if a button i pressed to play the song....none of the others buttons can be pressed until that song has finished???so they cant have another song playing at the same time!
Fantastic tutorial. Very easy to follow. Though I'm running into a few issues. I'm running Hammer with Portal 2 and I can load my sound in Hammer fine, but when I run the map, it refuses to play. I have my sound located in Common/Portal 2/portal2/sounds/radio_custom (since the game doesn't put folders in Steam user folders) and it's saved as a wave file at 44100 Hz 32-bit Stereo. Anyone know how to get this working?
@3kliksphilip Ok. Now I kinda feel like im takin advantage of your help or somthin. Please let me know if I'm bugging you, and I'll go hide under a computer generated rock or somthing. Anywho, when I put mp3's in the folder you show here on this video, they don't show up on the list in SDK when I type their name in the filter. =/
Hey nice tutorial! I've followed all your tutorials and they've helped a lot. But Im a bit confused about pakrat. Does it allow people to download the custom file straight from your computer or does it just come with the map once you upload to fpsbanana? I know I probably sound like an idiot but bear with me lol :P
Thanks - your tutorials are very helpful as always. One thing I noticed that stumped me at first though - you cannot see mp3 files when searching for raw sounds in the Ambient_generic pop up - it must be a .wav file. You probably knew this, but based on the extra info below movie, some people might think you can use mp3s for Ambient_generic entities.
Dudet's an internal problem. Did you set the sound file to loop? You need to correctly set its loop cue points in GoldWave for it to work, otherwise the StopSound input will fail. Some other flag settings etc will cause that aswell.
@3kliksphilip That's ok. Thanks so much for helping me. You have been such a huge help to me as I'm entering the world of mapping. I really don't know what I would've done withoutcha. =)
Sigh... Hate to bother you with this, but I simply can't get it to work. I put the wav into the "My Sounds" folder, but it doesn't show up in the sounds list. Any help philip?
This works fine, but when i put more than one sound and press the button to start one, my LERP turns yellow and everything lags horribly :( PLEASE HELP!
Please reply to this, I'm making a horror maze kinda map and I want to have creepy music in the background that goes on for about 6 minutes and Ive set it for all around the map and for some reason my whole map gets laggy and really weird! Please help me out man!
plz help. my sound browser only shows like three sounds and they are ambient sounds or whatever and thats in the game sounds. in raw theres one sound and its like a soundscape and in scenes there is nothing. i have tried evrethying like refreshing it, redownloading souce sdk and hl2. also verrifing integrity of game cache and still no sounds in the browser. the weird part is when i play hl2, all the sounds are in the game, but in hammer there are no sounds in the browser. please help...thanks.
When my custom sound (WAV) is supposed to be played in my left 4 dead 2 map, it says: ''S_StartSound: Failed to load sound 'custom sounds\gruntenabled01.wav', file probably missing from disk/repository'' even though I have placed the sound in the right folder. I made a folder inside the 'sounds' folder of L4D2, and called it ' custom sounds ' . Please help me out if you know what I've done wrong!
If you have two or more buttons which you can hit to play different sounds/music, is there a way to make it so that hitting one immediately shuts the others off? I'm currently having a problem where I can get songs to play, but once one is playing I have to wait the full duration for it to finish before hitting another button, otherwise they play at the same time. I've tried setting up a second output to each button set to StopSound for the song I don't want playing, but it's not working.
I'm trying to make a map for tf2 with a button that plays a song, but even after following your directions to the letter (At least to step 3, because it should work by then), the button refuses to work. The only main difference between your process and mine is that I didn't use Audacity, I just took an mp3 file from my music folder and copied it over into the proper folder I made as you instructed. Is that the reason as to why it isn't working?
Is there a way to extract the sound with hammer? For instance, I've decompiled a map and am trying to get a specific sound file out of the map for use in other things. I've located the sound on the map, I see the file name, but I can't see of a way to extract it, and it's nowhere in my sounds folder. Is it even possible to do this?
Or go to my computer, c drive, Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common or hit run and paste C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common A lot simpler than searching for shit Chances are that if steam is NOT in the default location, then the person knows where it's at. If not then we can assume that it would be in the default location.
@3kliksphilip 3kliksphilip i wanna make a func_breakable with custom sounds (TNT explode from minecraft to be activated when someone shoots and breakes it) i can't see any option and even if there is with an output on an ambient generic how do i desable the sound from the normal explosion on env_explosion?
Quick question, how do I make it so the song can be stopped? For example, I press the button once, and it begins to play. Then I press the same button again and it stops. The song would repeat once you press it again. I've tried everything but can't get it to stop, it just replays from the beginning. Plz & ty!
Nothing happens i download the LAME ENDECOR i extract it to the specified folder with WINRAR and i put it in the right folder you told me to put it in. I reload source SDK by exiting source SDK and clicking on hammer editor again. P.S I pick half life music25.mp3 or something like that and i click play and hear nothing i tried it for lots of them.
i don't get the window that you add the custom textures on. it just jumps to what looks like a compile log. It's just this map, the others work. It says something about being a type 20 or something. I tired other pack programs and the popped an error talking about how it needs to be a version 19 or something. ideas?
hey 3kliksphilip. i'm on the final stretch of my map here. I"m not doing sound, but custom textures. And judging by the other tut out there its the same proses, my problem is that when i open my map, that add window doesn't pop up. But more like a compile type window, with nothing to do or click on, ideas?
Hey, uhm. Great tutorial! Allthough I have a problem. I resampled a song, to around a samplerate of 41000 wav. But when I compile my map, it says that the sound samplerate is invalid. I tried everything, and I really need custom sounds in what Im working on. :c
Hey philip! I made a sound puted in right directory but there is a problem i dont have sound in hammer (there is no file in hammer). I play sound with Windows media player and then whole sound just runs out in few seconds :( sound long is 3:20 (its sond) Help me!
Hey philip, Ive got this little problem. Im mapping for portal, and I need to know how to get the sounds into the... Well, game files obviously. But I cant find a sound folder for Portal, and I cant add files to it in GCFscape. So Im wondering, how will I fix this?
For some reason, the "sound" folder is not in most of the files (i.e. "portal", "day of defeat", etc), and the one that it is in - hl2 - only has one sound file. Is this because I don't have most of the games necessary for this or because I have source engine 9?
How do you make your custom sound loop? In the map im making i have a waterfall and custom sounds for that waterfall(which is one minute long)... On the flags tab,theres no option for looping sounds,but only "is NOT lopped" and if that is ticked nothing plays at all....
I can't get past 5:03, when i try to open the WAV sound i want to use in my map it says this "Pakrat v0.95 - by Rof (rof@mellish.org.uk) Reading Call of Duty 5 Soundtrack - Castle Assault.wav Not a map file: 1347633750 != 1179011410 Couldn't find pak file EOCD" Please help.
Is something else needed to make a sample stop and play? I have two buttons, one that is set to play the sound and another to stop the sound, but the problem is, it won't stop, it plays through till the end. so in other words pressing another button to stop the sound doesn't work. thanks
So what about ONE button that plays MULTIPLE sounds? Press it once for song1.wav,press it again to end it and start song2.wav instead type of thing? I can't figure that out...it just tries to play them both at the same time...which obviously results in a crash :P
i know this isnt on topic with this video but here gos.... ive been tryin to create a map but whenever i create my own textures it looks rubbish cuz you can see the break or line where the texture like starts over again like on a chess board where it goes from black to white etc etc
i fixed it :P i had to rename the sound file... it didnt even work ingame but the name was portal the device has been modified but had to be portal_the_devide_has_been_modified had to add underscores :P but thnks anyway for the tutorial. never would manage to do this XD
HELP!! I've got a custom sound into the game, but the sound dosen't play and in the console it says "invalid sample rate (48000) for sound.." i've got the source SDK running on half life episode 2, and i've got the sound to activate by opening a nearby door, can any one help me please?
@3kliksphilip Hey! I feel to ask about 2 things.. First, when i want add props like bed, desk, newspaper etc to my map i can do it normal or add it like in your video? And second question, I want make disco in my map how can i make lights like in real disco?
@3kliksphilip yeah thanks, i read the additional info after i posted the comment. Can you PM me your steam account name so i can add you, theres a few questions id like to asd regarding this, and steam chat would be an awful lot easier in my opinion.?
Thanks for good tutorials! (Please make some more ;D) My Qustion: If i want a costum texture (like a made by taxture that ive made in photoshop, then i use ur tut on that but it doesnt show on their pc. Do i have to pakrat that also? /Tyren9
I am a little confused, maybe you can help me out, I followed your instructions to the T but on others PC it will not play the sound :( what am I doing wrong? I have hosted a LAN as well as a dedicated server, and it will not work.
my guess for this would be a math counter, when they press the button it adds one to the counter, when the counter gets to one, it plays a sound, when it gets to two (button pressed again) it plays a different sound... and so on
I've been busy whole morning but I can't get it to work with texture's. Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to pakrat texture's? cause my friends still see the purple blocked thing when they play my map, but my texture really is in the map file. Thanks
thanks so much!! but i have one question i've made a control board with lots of buttons for different songs, each one has a sprite that toggles on and off when the song is playing or not, i can get the songs to start and the sprite to come on fine, when i press the 'toggled' button again the sprite goes off as desired but the audio doesnt want to stop? is there an over ride thing i have to do or anything? thankyou very much
@3kliksphilip First i just cutted the sound to 36 secs and keeped quality high (44000khz) but the file size was like 18mb and it didnt played on sdk menu (when i previewed it on ambient_generic, you know) then i got it to the lowest possible quality (8800khz phone quality) and it played on preview, then i ran the map to test but it played like chipmunk (ultra fast) as i said...i have tried radio quality (22000khz) but it has the same problem. (goes too fast)
Hey philip my custom sound (it is one rap song) is working inda map well and in sdk and others can hear it BUT it plays so friggin fast expect that i have cutted it to length of 0:36 and i have maked the quality so low that it takes like 800kt (8800khz) but as i said the song goes so fast that it sounds like chipmunks and it plays in like 10secs the whole song.. :( (i have done other custom sounds and all have the same problem) plz help!! :D thank you
Create an entity called logic_auto, add an output called OnMapSpawn, then add your playSound or whatever you want. Each time the map(or a new round start), it will be triggered. sry if my English is not that great
Does that happen when you remove your own sound files too? I've tried doing this for L4D2, normal sounds where there, but the (custom) music I had not. Maybe try rebuilding the sound cache. Search it via google, it might help.
@3kliksphilip Forget it i got my map finished i just need to add the textures and all that and make a wall around it to block ppl to go to the skybox. It's a payload map. It looks nice. I'll try to upload to gamebanana today
@3kliksphilip Oh ok thanks and i love your tutorials. It helped me alot on making my tf2 map. I'll send you a video of it when it's finished. What do you think CP or PL? (control points or payload incase you don't know)
I made a StopSound button but it does not work. I have this as my outputs: OnDamage Ambientname StopSound I diden't do any thing else. What should i do more? Or what did i do wrong? I have a playsound button and it works...
How do i make a button that stops the sound(s). I have these as Outputs: OnDamaged (Ambient Name) StopSound. and i haven't done any thing else with that button (i have a button that starts the sound and it work...)
This isent something about custom sounds. But when i make an ambient_generic and make any kind of citizen sound it sounds like an female the most of the times when i want it to sound like an male...any way to fix this?
Could you make or do you have a tutorial on how to add custom textures into maps? All that I have seen are either outdated or the person talking does not know how to do a tutorial as simple and as clearly as you do.
this is all fine and dandy, i thank you for teaching me, but what i want to do is make my custom sound loop, but it can't because of from what someone told me is that it doesn't have an "audio cue". can you help?
Hey, if you're using Left 4 Dead SDK, you put the sound in "Program Files (x86), Steam, steamapps, common, left 4 dead, left4dead, sound, (whatever catagory folder, eg: music)" then create a folder and put your sound in there!
Excellent, just what I needed. Thanks mate :D Btw, i found that mp3's wouldnt play if in a subdirectory under sound/ but would if put directly under sound/. Took me some time to figure out, hope it helps someone.
Hi 3kliksphilip Its me again (lol) I find your tutorials very useful but if i want to only play it in a room or something what do i do ? i think i know like if theres a range option, But how do i know how far it is?
Well I have mine working to a certain degree I encountered a problem with the radius in which the sound plays within it seems to only play within inches of the actual abient-generic... The radius is set to 4600 I am still confused after searching every where to hunt down the culprit of this Error... And help is welcome
@3kliksphilip Hey. Thanks for your quick reply. The smaller file did work, however I am wanting to get a fairly long song to play in my map. I tried compressing the file size, but when I converted it to wav format it became huge again. Do you know of a way to decrease the size of a wav file, or if there is another format that would work?
@3kliksphilip Hey all your tutorials helped me allot! But i have prob. with sounds. When i add song to the level it says that the song has be added, but when my friend tried to play the song on hes css, he couldn't hear it + the map took from 5mb(without a song) to 39mb(with song) the song takes only 3mb so why is this, maybe you could help me out?
@3kliksphilip It plays, loops twice (could just be the version of the song), but then it goes silent. I went to my map's admin room with the toggle key toggled it off, then on and it was playing again, but it still won't loop. I did a Google search about some program that use use to tell the file to loop and apparently adding _loop after the song is theory.
I was hoping you'd specify what settings the sound has to be. I have a looping train sound and I've not had problems with sounds in the past however it plays fine, loops but after dying and the next round loads, there's silence. I tried putting a trigger_multiple on spawn area, using a logic_auto but nothing :S Going to test format again.
If you're having trouble that the music won't work after you pressed the button you can replace the ''OnPressed'' With ''OnDamaged'' (Make sure you damage the button then) This worked for me ;)
I'm a developer for a game on steam, no custom sounds or models WILL NOT Vac ban you, only custom client.dll files and things that inject their own dlls into the game while the game is running.
Could adding a custom sound to my TF folder get me banned? I've heard you're not supposed to play around / Dig the TF folders. Don't wanna get Vac-banned again. I'd love an answer from someone who knows.
@3kiksphilip some ppl been asking how you can make it so you can turn the music on and off with the same button well in ambient_generic go to flags and just untick is NOT looped and it will work
@3kiksphillip im mapping for css and i put it in the sound folder in cstrike and ive tried restarting hammer but doesnt help could it be cos am using actuall songs not recordings but i made them wav
STEP 3 Additional Help When browsing for your sounds, select RAW instead of Game Sounds if you can't find your sound sample. Be sure to load up the Source SDK *AFTER* placing the sound in the folder.
for some reason the pakrat didnt work for me i still get the failed to load sound "filename" probably blah blah blah. so other people get that in their consols when the custom sound in my map plays
I hawe a question; I can play my custom sounds/songs whit a button, but when i want to play other song i can hear two songs at same time. Can you help me whit this trouble? Sorry for my bad english
hey. the sound doesnt wanna go into the bsp. i press on add and i sellect the sound file but when i press ok and it askes about that fix thing. i press yes but its not in it :S is there a fix ?
boo hoo phillp i cant do it plz help me ive made the folder and ive made the sound and ive put the sound in the folder i go in to the game and i cant find my sound WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG???good vid tho :)
Yes indeed. However, my sounds still don't work ingame, and I can't test my map via hammer, only through the game. (Tf2.) I have updated my sounds in a .wav format with the 44100 sample rate, but now my sounds just don't show up in the sound list. I'm using a custom capture sound btw.
USE mp3. The size is 4 times smaller than wav files. But you can't preview these files in the editor. Well, I'm having a problem with having files play automatically when I'm ingame. They just don't play. They are ambient sounds that are not started silent, they loop, and are not played everywhere.
Is it possible to make like Half life 2 Songs? Like, Combines arrive and a Song Starts playing, How can you make it play so It doesn't fade out the volume when you leave the Volume Area (The Radius of the Volume) Is the the "Play Everywhere" Flag? Sorry for my bad explanation.
I FIGURED IT OUT- For portal, you need the sound folder to be named "sound" not "sounds" 3 days to figure that out... 3 DAYS!!! Making a map called arena-pretty much everything is stuff I learned from you videos-- custom textures, sound, all that jazz. Just sayin thanks ;\
"Auda-city"
lol
+Noodle ★ always read it like that
lucaSim ツ used to say it like that too. I wonder if he's learned how to pronounce it nlw
How do I loop the sound? Whenever I leave the flag "Is NOT Looped" unchecked, it's not looped. And when I check it, it's still not looped.
Is it possible to get the tf2 theme music in game without having to actually add it as a custom sound? For example, one would think that the song "Archimedes" would be in the list of sounds, but alas, it is not. Am I missing something?
I love your videos I’ve been binge watching them eating skittles and working on my hammer editor map
i know this has nothing to do with this vid but how do you get it where your cylinders only show the sides that you can see, like on the other side it's nodraw and when you go around it, it moves with you to where your always opposite to the nodraw, i have a map with several cylinders and i thought it'd help.
that mus be y it was screwing up, thank u. and just ignore that stuff i said earlier it's a long story but it's nonsense and disregard it.
the way he fucking pronounced audacity auuuuuugh
invalid sample rate(18000)????????
Wait so what's the directory for custom sounds in Garry's mod?
I would assume its
C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\USERNAME\garrysmod\garrysmod\sound
But I've put it in there and it doesn't show up, even after refreshing it....
how did i end up here
This is the only tutorial from you i cant get to work..
I put the sound file in the sound folder yet it doesn't show up in hammer. Its a .wav file. I restarted hammer and it jsut doesnt work.
By the way, I think you make the best Source SDK tutorials out there, they're really helpful, I love them!
Yeh i'm making a disco thingy...how can i make it so that if a button i pressed to play the song....none of the others buttons can be pressed until that song has finished???so they cant have another song playing at the same time!
My music will not repeat.. I have the 'do NOT repeat' option unticked. But after it stops it will not start again.
S_StartSound: Failed to load sound 'costom sounds\sadmusic.wav', file probably missing from disk/repository
Fantastic tutorial. Very easy to follow. Though I'm running into a few issues. I'm running Hammer with Portal 2 and I can load my sound in Hammer fine, but when I run the map, it refuses to play. I have my sound located in Common/Portal 2/portal2/sounds/radio_custom (since the game doesn't put folders in Steam user folders) and it's saved as a wave file at 44100 Hz 32-bit Stereo. Anyone know how to get this working?
Same issue. Its just random... Probably source have a limit on channels.
If i have a song playing and some1 presses another button both songs keep on playing...
@3kliksphilip Ok. Now I kinda feel like im takin advantage of your help or somthin. Please let me know if I'm bugging you, and I'll go hide under a computer generated rock or somthing. Anywho, when I put mp3's in the folder you show here on this video, they don't show up on the list in SDK when I type their name in the filter. =/
Hey nice tutorial! I've followed all your tutorials and they've helped a lot. But Im a bit confused about pakrat. Does it allow people to download the custom file straight from your computer or does it just come with the map once you upload to fpsbanana? I know I probably sound like an idiot but bear with me lol :P
Thanks - your tutorials are very helpful as always. One thing I noticed that stumped me at first though - you cannot see mp3 files when searching for raw sounds in the Ambient_generic pop up - it must be a .wav file. You probably knew this, but based on the extra info below movie, some people might think you can use mp3s for Ambient_generic entities.
Dudet's an internal problem. Did you set the sound file to loop? You need to correctly set its loop cue points in GoldWave for it to work, otherwise the StopSound input will fail. Some other flag settings etc will cause that aswell.
@3kliksphilip That's ok. Thanks so much for helping me. You have been such a huge help to me as I'm entering the world of mapping. I really don't know what I would've done withoutcha. =)
Sigh... Hate to bother you with this, but I simply can't get it to work. I put the wav into the "My Sounds" folder, but it doesn't show up in the sounds list. Any help philip?
iVE PUT THIS IN MY MAP ..
ambitent_generic
and i choosed the sound and its working but when i die and a new round begin i dont hear anything... why??
This works fine, but when i put more than one sound and press the button to start one, my LERP turns yellow and everything lags horribly :( PLEASE HELP!
ive putted a generator sound for a generator in the map
and a truck sound coz i have a truck
they are all looped and they work the first round
@Tjoffe96 there should be an entity called target or trigger cdaudio and from there you can choose one of the hl2 tracks
You need to set it to search Raw files
If you don't, it won't work. There's a drop down in the sound browser.
@3kliksphilip The point template idea worked after a little bit of messing around with it. Thank you :)
yer, you need to make a cue at the start called start_cue and a cue at the end called end_cue
audacity doesnt have "save as WAV" anymore on my version, only mp3, what should i do?
How can I do so my sound play when I start the map, do I need a trigger or?
Not only is it in the description, but he says it in the video...
Please reply to this, I'm making a horror maze kinda map and I want to have creepy music in the background that goes on for about 6 minutes and Ive set it for all around the map and for some reason my whole map gets laggy and really weird! Please help me out man!
am makeing a mall map and a want to play muisc can i do that ?
Didn't work, I'm probably not going to receive a reply
plz help. my sound browser only shows like three sounds and they are ambient sounds or whatever and thats in the game sounds. in raw theres one sound and its like a soundscape and in scenes there is nothing. i have tried evrethying like refreshing it, redownloading souce sdk and hl2. also verrifing integrity of game cache and still no sounds in the browser. the weird part is when i play hl2, all the sounds are in the game, but in hammer there are no sounds in the browser. please help...thanks.
When my custom sound (WAV) is supposed to be played in my left 4 dead 2 map, it says: ''S_StartSound: Failed to load sound 'custom sounds\gruntenabled01.wav', file probably missing from disk/repository'' even though I have placed the sound in the right folder. I made a folder inside the 'sounds' folder of L4D2, and called it ' custom sounds ' .
Please help me out if you know what I've done wrong!
If you have two or more buttons which you can hit to play different sounds/music, is there a way to make it so that hitting one immediately shuts the others off? I'm currently having a problem where I can get songs to play, but once one is playing I have to wait the full duration for it to finish before hitting another button, otherwise they play at the same time. I've tried setting up a second output to each button set to StopSound for the song I don't want playing, but it's not working.
I'm trying to make a map for tf2 with a button that plays a song, but even after following your directions to the letter (At least to step 3, because it should work by then), the button refuses to work. The only main difference between your process and mine is that I didn't use Audacity, I just took an mp3 file from my music folder and copied it over into the proper folder I made as you instructed. Is that the reason as to why it isn't working?
Is there a way to extract the sound with hammer? For instance, I've decompiled a map and am trying to get a specific sound file out of the map for use in other things. I've located the sound on the map, I see the file name, but I can't see of a way to extract it, and it's nowhere in my sounds folder. Is it even possible to do this?
Or go to my computer, c drive, Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common
or hit run and paste C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common
A lot simpler than searching for shit
Chances are that if steam is NOT in the default location, then the person knows where it's at. If not then we can assume that it would be in the default location.
@3kliksphilip 3kliksphilip i wanna make a func_breakable with custom sounds (TNT explode from minecraft to be activated when someone shoots and breakes it) i can't see any option and even if there is with an output on an ambient generic how do i desable the sound from the normal explosion on env_explosion?
Quick question, how do I make it so the song can be stopped? For example, I press the button once, and it begins to play. Then I press the same button again and it stops. The song would repeat once you press it again. I've tried everything but can't get it to stop, it just replays from the beginning.
Plz & ty!
Nothing happens i download the LAME ENDECOR i extract it to the specified folder with WINRAR and i put it in the right folder you told me to put it in. I reload source SDK by exiting source SDK and clicking on hammer editor again. P.S I pick half life music25.mp3 or something like that and i click play and hear nothing i tried it for lots of them.
i don't get the window that you add the custom textures on. it just jumps to what looks like a compile log. It's just this map, the others work. It says something about being a type 20 or something. I tired other pack programs and the popped an error talking about how it needs to be a version 19 or something. ideas?
hey 3kliksphilip. i'm on the final stretch of my map here. I"m not doing sound, but custom textures. And judging by the other tut out there its the same proses, my problem is that when i open my map, that add window doesn't pop up. But more like a compile type window, with nothing to do or click on, ideas?
Hey, uhm. Great tutorial! Allthough I have a problem. I resampled a song, to around a samplerate of 41000 wav. But when I compile my map, it says that the sound samplerate is invalid. I tried everything, and I really need custom sounds in what Im working on. :c
Hey philip!
I made a sound puted in right directory but there is a problem i dont have sound in hammer (there is no file in hammer).
I play sound with Windows media player and then whole sound just runs out in few seconds :(
sound long is 3:20 (its sond)
Help me!
Hey philip, Ive got this little problem. Im mapping for portal, and I need to know how to get the sounds into the... Well, game files obviously. But I cant find a sound folder for Portal, and I cant add files to it in GCFscape. So Im wondering, how will I fix this?
For some reason, the "sound" folder is not in most of the files (i.e. "portal", "day of defeat", etc), and the one that it is in - hl2 - only has one sound file. Is this because I don't have most of the games necessary for this or because I have source engine 9?
How do you make your custom sound loop? In the map im making i have a waterfall and custom sounds for that waterfall(which is one minute long)...
On the flags tab,theres no option for looping sounds,but only "is NOT lopped" and if that is ticked nothing plays at all....
I can't get past 5:03, when i try to open the WAV sound i want to use in my map it says this "Pakrat v0.95 - by Rof (rof@mellish.org.uk)
Reading Call of Duty 5 Soundtrack - Castle Assault.wav
Not a map file: 1347633750 != 1179011410
Couldn't find pak file EOCD"
Please help.
Is something else needed to make a sample stop and play? I have two buttons, one that is set to play the sound and another to stop the sound, but the problem is, it won't stop, it plays through till the end. so in other words pressing another button to stop the sound doesn't work. thanks
So what about ONE button that plays MULTIPLE sounds?
Press it once for song1.wav,press it again to end it and start song2.wav instead type of thing?
I can't figure that out...it just tries to play them both at the same time...which obviously results in a crash :P
i know this isnt on topic with this video but here gos....
ive been tryin to create a map but whenever i create my own textures it looks rubbish cuz you can see the break or line where the texture like starts over again like on a chess board where it goes from black to white etc etc
i fixed it :P i had to rename the sound file... it didnt even work ingame
but the name was
portal the device has been modified but had to be
portal_the_devide_has_been_modified
had to add underscores :P but thnks anyway for the tutorial. never would manage to do this XD
HELP!! I've got a custom sound into the game, but the sound dosen't play and in the console it says "invalid sample rate (48000) for sound.." i've got the source SDK running on half life episode 2, and i've got the sound to activate by opening a nearby door, can any one help me please?
@3kliksphilip Hey! I feel to ask about 2 things.. First, when i want add props like bed, desk, newspaper etc to my map i can do it normal or add it like in your video? And second question, I want make disco in my map how can i make lights like in real disco?
@3kliksphilip yeah thanks, i read the additional info after i posted the comment. Can you PM me your steam account name so i can add you, theres a few questions id like to asd regarding this, and steam chat would be an awful lot easier in my opinion.?
Thanks for good tutorials! (Please make some more ;D)
My Qustion: If i want a costum texture (like a made by taxture that ive made in photoshop, then i use ur tut on that but it doesnt show on their pc. Do i have to pakrat that also?
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I am a little confused, maybe you can help me out, I followed your instructions to the T but on others PC it will not play the sound :( what am I doing wrong? I have hosted a LAN as well as a dedicated server, and it will not work.
my guess for this would be a math counter, when they press the button it adds one to the counter, when the counter gets to one, it plays a sound, when it gets to two (button pressed again) it plays a different sound... and so on
I've been busy whole morning but I can't get it to work with texture's. Does anyone have a good tutorial on how to pakrat texture's? cause my friends still see the purple blocked thing when they play my map, but my texture really is in the map file.
Thanks
thx man, this will help with my mod "We Go To RavenHolme"
thanks so much!! but i have one question i've made a control board with lots of buttons for different songs, each one has a sprite that toggles on and off when the song is playing or not, i can get the songs to start and the sprite to come on fine, when i press the 'toggled' button again the sprite goes off as desired but the audio doesnt want to stop? is there an over ride thing i have to do or anything?
thankyou very much
@3kliksphilip First i just cutted the sound to 36 secs and keeped quality high (44000khz) but the file size was like 18mb and it didnt played on sdk menu (when i previewed it on ambient_generic, you know) then i got it to the lowest possible quality (8800khz phone quality) and it played on preview, then i ran the map to test but it played like chipmunk (ultra fast) as i said...i have tried radio quality (22000khz) but it has the same problem. (goes too fast)
Hey philip my custom sound (it is one rap song) is working inda map well and in sdk and others can hear it BUT it plays so friggin fast expect that i have cutted it to length of 0:36 and i have maked the quality so low that it takes like 800kt (8800khz) but as i said the song goes so fast that it sounds like chipmunks and it plays in like 10secs the whole song.. :(
(i have done other custom sounds and all have the same problem)
plz help!! :D thank you
Create an entity called logic_auto, add an output called OnMapSpawn, then add your playSound or whatever you want. Each time the map(or a new round start), it will be triggered.
sry if my English is not that great
Does that happen when you remove your own sound files too? I've tried doing this for L4D2, normal sounds where there, but the (custom) music I had not. Maybe try rebuilding the sound cache. Search it via google, it might help.
@3kliksphilip Forget it i got my map finished i just need to add the textures and all that and make a wall around it to block ppl to go to the skybox. It's a payload map. It looks nice. I'll try to upload to gamebanana today
@3kliksphilip Oh ok thanks and i love your tutorials. It helped me alot on making my tf2 map. I'll send you a video of it when it's finished. What do you think CP or PL? (control points or payload incase you don't know)
I made a StopSound button but it does not work.
I have this as my outputs:
OnDamage
Ambientname
StopSound
I diden't do any thing else.
What should i do more? Or what did i do wrong?
I have a playsound button and it works...
How do i make a button that stops the sound(s). I have these as Outputs:
OnDamaged
(Ambient Name)
StopSound.
and i haven't done any thing else with that button
(i have a button that starts the sound and it work...)
This isent something about custom sounds. But when i make an ambient_generic and make any kind of citizen sound it sounds like an female the most of the times when i want it to sound like an male...any way to fix this?
Could you make or do you have a tutorial on how to add custom textures into maps?
All that I have seen are either outdated or the person talking does not know how to do a tutorial as simple and as clearly as you do.
this is all fine and dandy, i thank you for teaching me, but what i want to do is make my custom sound loop, but it can't because of from what someone told me is that it doesn't have an "audio cue". can you help?
Hey, if you're using Left 4 Dead SDK, you put the sound in "Program Files (x86), Steam, steamapps, common, left 4 dead, left4dead, sound, (whatever catagory folder, eg: music)" then create a folder and put your sound in there!
Excellent, just what I needed.
Thanks mate :D
Btw, i found that mp3's wouldnt play if in a subdirectory under sound/ but would if put directly under sound/. Took me some time to figure out, hope it helps someone.
Hi 3kliksphilip Its me again (lol)
I find your tutorials very useful but if i want to only play it in a room or something what do i do ? i think i know like if theres a range option, But how do i know how far it is?
Well I have mine working to a certain degree I encountered a problem with the radius in which the sound plays within it seems to only play within inches of the actual abient-generic... The radius is set to 4600 I am still confused after searching every where to hunt down the culprit of this Error... And help is welcome
@3kliksphilip Hey. Thanks for your quick reply. The smaller file did work, however I am wanting to get a fairly long song to play in my map. I tried compressing the file size, but when I converted it to wav format it became huge again. Do you know of a way to decrease the size of a wav file, or if there is another format that would work?
@3kliksphilip Hey all your tutorials helped me allot! But i have prob. with sounds. When i add song to the level it says that the song has be added, but when my friend tried to play the song on hes css, he couldn't hear it + the map took from 5mb(without a song) to 39mb(with song) the song takes only 3mb so why is this, maybe you could help me out?
@3kliksphilip It plays, loops twice (could just be the version of the song), but then it goes silent. I went to my map's admin room with the toggle key toggled it off, then on and it was playing again, but it still won't loop. I did a Google search about some program that use use to tell the file to loop and apparently adding _loop after the song is theory.
I was hoping you'd specify what settings the sound has to be. I have a looping train sound and I've not had problems with sounds in the past however it plays fine, loops but after dying and the next round loads, there's silence. I tried putting a trigger_multiple on spawn area, using a logic_auto but nothing :S Going to test format again.
i tried adding music but it doesn't play when triggered.
If you're having trouble that the music won't work after you pressed the button you can replace the ''OnPressed'' With ''OnDamaged'' (Make sure you damage the button then)
This worked for me ;)
I'm a developer for a game on steam, no custom sounds or models WILL NOT Vac ban you, only custom client.dll files and things that inject their own dlls into the game while the game is running.
Could adding a custom sound to my TF folder get me banned? I've heard you're not supposed to play around / Dig the TF folders. Don't wanna get Vac-banned again. I'd love an answer from someone who knows.
@3kiksphilip some ppl been asking how you can make it so you can turn the music on and off with the same button well in ambient_generic go to flags and just untick is NOT looped and it will work
@3kiksphillip im mapping for css and i put it in the sound folder in cstrike and ive tried restarting hammer but doesnt help could it be cos am using actuall songs not recordings but i made them wav
STEP 3 Additional Help
When browsing for your sounds, select RAW instead of Game Sounds if you can't find your sound sample. Be sure to load up the Source SDK *AFTER* placing the sound in the folder.
for some reason the pakrat didnt work for me
i still get the failed to load sound "filename" probably blah blah blah. so other people get that in their consols when the custom sound in my map plays
I hawe a question; I can play my custom sounds/songs whit a button, but when i want to play other song i can hear two songs at same time. Can you help me whit this trouble? Sorry for my bad english
hey. the sound doesnt wanna go into the bsp. i press on add and i sellect the sound file but when i press ok and it askes about that fix thing. i press yes but its not in it :S is there a fix ?
boo hoo phillp i cant do it plz help me ive made the folder and ive made the sound and ive put the sound in the folder i go in to the game and i cant find my sound WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG???good vid tho :)
Yes indeed.
However, my sounds still don't work ingame, and I can't test my map via hammer, only through the game. (Tf2.)
I have updated my sounds in a .wav format with the 44100 sample rate, but now my sounds just don't show up in the sound list. I'm using a custom capture sound btw.
USE mp3. The size is 4 times smaller than wav files. But you can't preview these files in the editor. Well, I'm having a problem with having files play automatically when I'm ingame. They just don't play. They are ambient sounds that are not started silent, they loop, and are not played everywhere.
Is it possible to make like Half life 2 Songs? Like, Combines arrive and a Song Starts playing, How can you make it play so It doesn't fade out the volume when you leave the Volume Area (The Radius of the Volume) Is the the "Play Everywhere" Flag?
Sorry for my bad explanation.
I FIGURED IT OUT-
For portal, you need the sound folder to be named "sound" not "sounds"
3 days to figure that out...
3 DAYS!!!
Making a map called arena-pretty much everything is stuff I learned from you videos-- custom textures, sound, all that jazz. Just sayin thanks
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