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Posted by W01f on Wed Dec 29th at 8:24pm 2004

Ok, I have lightning in my map. Not to brag, but it looks really cool. Taking it out of the map is not an option, even if it has to be silent.

I'm using an env_beam with the flag "strike on random" checked. So how would I get a sound to play when the beam "strikes on random"?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Im running out of time and need to figure this out very soon.




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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Dec 29th at 8:32pm 2004

I think the strike at random only applies to where the beam actauuly strikes (if its targeting multiple tatgets). What you want is the beam to trigger a sound entity, either a ambient_gerneric, or sound something, have the outputs in the beam target that sound entity.
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Posted by W01f on Wed Dec 29th at 8:54pm 2004

What would I put in the "my output named" field? The only options it gives me are "OnTouchedByEntity" (which doesn't work), and OnUser1 2 3 and 4 which don't seem to work either.

Sorry I'm new to hammer, not too great at the input/output stuff yet.




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Posted by Leperous on Wed Dec 29th at 10:58pm 2004

Well, then you'll want something which randomly triggers your lightning strike (instead of having "random strike" ticked). Quite how you do this I'm not sure Though perhaps you could also try doing something with an entity which triggers the sound when it is "hurt" by the lightning strike (OnTakeDamage or some such, and a very high health value).



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Posted by W01f on Wed Dec 29th at 11:24pm 2004

Hey that's not a bad idea..gonna have to try it and see if it works.




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Posted by -Noisymonk on Wed Dec 29th at 11:52pm 2004

couldn't you use a logic_timer to randomly activate the beam and also play your sound at the same time? I'm pretty sure that the logic_timer can be used to do stuff at random intervals..



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Posted by W01f on Thu Dec 30th at 12:55am 2004

Indeed it can, and it's a good idea. The damage idea didn't work, so I'll try this and post back with results.

edit: omg...the timer thing works, and it works damn sweet. This is going to be SO AWESOME DUIFHSDIF EWWPA!!!11

hehe..sorry...just really excited, I've been trying to make it work all day, and the results are damn worth it.




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Posted by coldbladed on Thu Dec 30th at 1:00am 2004

I've seen some maps where the thunder sound is going off at sparatic times even when the lightning is not striking. The effect is that lightning is all around, ooh ahh. If the sound is frequent enough it tends to seem realistic, but it needs to be quiet enough so as not to be annoying when playing the map a lot. Essentially this is the poormans/halffast solution in case you get desperate! yay




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Posted by -Noisymonk on Thu Dec 30th at 1:07am 2004

lol, glad I could help. put it to good use



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Posted by W01f on Thu Dec 30th at 1:58am 2004

Yeah, I thought about doing this, and in a way I am. I have really loud lightning strike sounds for the bolts that you can get really close to, and for the ones off in the distance I have the more atmospheric sounds playing. Seems to work well when you mix them together.




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Posted by Zeon on Thu Dec 30th at 5:20am 2004

*sniff sniff*

Do I smell a tutorial?





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Posted by W01f on Thu Dec 30th at 7:58pm 2004

Ok, how bout this. If you guys can help me figure out the last piece of this puzzle, I promise a tutorial once my map is finished.

I'm trying to get it to flash light with the lightning. I can make the light turn on when the lightning hits, but it won't turn back off. Right now I'm using a logic timer in the same way that I make the bolt/sound play. for the light, I set the input to "turn on". So that's how it turns on...how do I make it turn off? Is there some logic_relay or something that I can do? I'm new to all this hammer stuff and still have lots to learn.




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Posted by DrGlass on Thu Dec 30th at 8:59pm 2004

easy, on your logic_timer just add another output to the light, set it to "turn off" and make a 0.4 second delay. So when the lighting/sound/light fire the turn off will fire 0.4 seconds later.

Here is another question though... can you make a second light_env that you can toggle? I can imagin it would be hard to make a good lighting light with just a few point lights.





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Posted by W01f on Thu Dec 30th at 10:00pm 2004

Works great, thanks

I don't know about using a light_env. I don't even have a skybox in my map..

I'll compile it with normal point lights and see how it looks.





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