I Help need help

Hey all,

I just have a few things to ask, I just thought that I'd make sure that I'm doing everything right now insted of later :smile: .

#1) Character voice work

After a long war and a little help from Loco I was able to get my scientists mouths to move. Now I just want to make sure that I'm compiling right, heres what I do.

1) Record the voice (duh)

2) add the sound to my mod's folder (Xenophobia/sound/Joe/hey.wav

3) add a new entry to my custom sentences.txt

4) I open up the editer and set everything up so it will work.

now here's the part I want to know if I'm doing effectively

5) I compile the map, but then I have to close out and open Half-life then ativate my mod from the custom game menu. That way the sound will actually play

So I have to activate it in half-life for it to look into my mod folder and read the sound, but I just can't help wondering if there is a way that I should do it so that It will work right when I compile it in Worldcraft.

thx guys

Hey its you Half-dude

You should set up Hammer to use your mods folder, set it up as you would for any other mod, but make it use the HL FGD.

If you're compiling and running the map from hammer, which most people say is a bad idea, you could still change the line that runs your game to look like this;

+map $file -game xenophobia -dev -console

you should already have the +map $file bit. -game xenophobia, where xenophobia is the name of the folder your mod is in. -dev lets you cheat with noclip and godmode, and lets you use some other commands. and -console lets you access the console ingame, so you can use the cheats of course. :smile:

That line primimter is in advanced compile right?

What is HL FGD?

FGD = the text file saying what properties entities have and stuff. Anyway, you might need to have a ! before the name of the sound, so it'd be like "!sound/Joe/hey.wav"

When you hit F9, you can just add the "-game xenophobia -console" to the additionall commands box at the top, you don't need to be in advanced.

I'm not to sure about this, but I think anything with an ! is a setence, and sentences usually have a sentence file to work off of, or somethin'.