looping

I made a func_rotating fan ( a pretty awesome one I might add). And I am looking at all the different sounds I cna have for it and I found the best one but its not a looping one. is there a way for me to make it loop?

is there a tag in the fan ent that allows you to play the sound>? those auto-loop. If you have an ENV_sound, then, you need to set the flags to make it loop.

its not an env_sound its a func_rotating

I think what he might be saying is taht you need to use another entity to make it sound as though the sound is coming from the fan. And loop THAT entity.

oh durr, I get it, sorry I am stupid, thx a bunch

edit: I only have a env_soundscape and I cant find a loopthing!?

The entity is ambient_generic. In the 'flags', uncheck 'is not looped'.

Use an ambient_generic. I think you can either

1) make the ambient_generic loop using 2 multi_managers: the first triggering the sound AND the second manager, and the second targeting the first. Thus, they will keep activating eachother. To start them, you could target any of the 2 managers with a trigger_auto or any other trigger. Don't forget about setting the proper delays.

2) look under "dynamic presets" and make the ambient_generic's sound "pulse" (or slow pulse, depending on the length of the sound). This is good for playing environment sounds like birds or wind.

And set the ambient_generic to start on (don't tick the "start off" flag). If you plan on making the fan stop, then give this generic the same name as your fan.

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I think the "is not looped" flag is for button activated sounds in SP (in that if you die after activating the sound and load a game, the sound will or will not be reactivated). I think. I'm not much of a SP mapper.

Err...multi-managers? If the sound you want doesn't normally loop (not all sounds are capable of looping), you can make a couple outputs that will allow it to loop.

1) OnUser1 - [name of self] - PlaySound - 0.00 delay

2) OnUser1 - [name of self] - FireUser1 - [whatever time delay you want between the start of each sound]

And of course Andrei's comment about Dynamic Presets is good, too.

Bah! ambient_generic is messed up. I have a map that basically the problem has been ambient_generic with triggers. One map load the triggers all work, next map load some don't all have the same sound settings too. I have is not looped unchecked and start asleep unchecked. It's crazy but it seems the ambient_generic entity is a random one at best. In the SDK it says to turn on the environment variable ent_developer or something and it's not even recognized by the game. Frustrating since my map is 99.9% done and it's only stupid area noises not working and holding up my map. If you can imagine the frustration! Things I can tell you in my map.

I have a central area, many doors, a pit and ambient_generic in it with a trigger in each doorway, so assuming a person walks through "a" doorway it should trigger sound!! Beeeep!! negative. Only works "sometimes". I will still keep playing with this, and no I don't want a soundscape, I want just area specific noises and some are close to others.. well, if anyone knows or can help in terms of sounds, I'd appreciate some help before I go to Valve and strangle Gabe! Hehehe!

ambient_generic inst random or glitch, you just need to use the correltly formated sounds for them, for instance only a certain few "prison anouncers" work on an ambient generic.

On the loop a unloopable sound question. logic_timer. Name the sound and place a logic_timer. Tell the logic_timer to play the sound every x seconds.