ambient_generic issues

Hello.

In my HL2MP map I want to get the effect of water dripping, so I loaded
up an ambient_generic with "ambient/water/rain_drip1.wav" and set the
volume to "10."

In the flags, everything is UNCHECKED. (i.e. Sound is NOT looped, Start Off)

And yet, I can't get the damn thing to play. I have two other
ambient_generic working perfectly in the map with the exact same
settings (ambient/machines/wall_loop1.wav AND
ambient/atmosphere/laundry_amb.wav)

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide in solving this issue.

You said it yourself, sound is not looped, so game starts it goes drip and thats all she wrote. What you want to do is put a logic_timer in there and tell it to play the drip every few seconds.

Meh I read the sound is not looped incorrectly. The sound you have selected is not loopable so it plays once and dies. Just add the logic_timer...

No I said that the flag for "Sound is NOT looped" was unchecked. Meaning it should loop.

edit: OK thanks. I'll check back if the timer doesn't work.

It may be that the sound isn't formatted (maybe this is the wrong word
to use) to be used by an ambient generic. Yes I know in theory that
every sound should work, but I can recall a few that don't work (like a
few prison anouncers)

I have not had any problems with sounds not playing via ambient_generic. There are lots that do not loop, but I just slap a timer on them if I want them to repeat. I find if it works in hammer it works ingame. I have done the drip sound on a timer on two maps, I used the ambient/canal/drip4 though.

Actually, I think an env_soundscape might actually work out better...but there a couple of things I don't understand about them

First of all, I read Reno's question about them from December, and I
would have asked this question in that thread, but you can't reply to
threads that old.

Secondly, from what I understand in that thread, if you want to make
your own soundscape*.txt (which I do) you need to put it in ...\half-life 2
deathmatch\hl2mp\scripts and then reference that script in the soundscape_manifest.txt. Easy enough...

But what I don't understand is when you actually want to use the
env_soundscape in your map, how does it know which soundscapes*.txt
file to look in for the sound you've referenced.

Say for example on an env_soundscape key 'soundscape' with the value
'Blitz_rain', how does it know to reference (let's call it)
soundscape_blitz.txt for that 'Blitz_rain' soundscape?

Sorry blitz my knowledge of soundscapes goes as far as using the ones already there. I have no clue how to make new ones, so I just litter an entire level with ambient_generics. I like the A_Gs because they are all localized to areas I want them, drip from a faucet, apc engine idle. You can do some real fancy stuff with them too using triggers, timers buttons ect.