Ambient_generic transition

I am experimenting with ambient sounds. There is an outdoor area
of the map that I have successfully set up an ambient_generic entity to
loop a wind sound effect. But I want to turn it off once the
player is indoor.

In HL1, the choices are "room types" or "normal" for the
ambient_generic entity. I want to set the sound back to "normal"
(i.e. no wind sound) when the player is indoor, but there is no
"normal" sound effect when I browsed through the sounds. I've
tried filtering for "room", "default", "normal", "nosound", but there
is nothing that fits my need.

I know there must be a way to accomplish this. Do I have to use soundscape instead for this? Thanks for any tips.

i don't really remember, but was environmental sound made with ambient_generics?

anywho's, environmentals are fickle things, at least in HL1. you needed one to turn it on, then you had to have one to turn it off, or change it to another type of environ.

environs have a range you must set to trigger it.. in other words, how close do you want a player to be before it triggers.

also, environs cannot be allowed to see each other, or they will bork (so i am told)

i dunno if HL2 is even remotely the same, but i am betting it is close.

check the things i mentioned and get back to us.

use that one "soundscape" entitiy. i tihnk its and ENV.

You want to try that again in English..? :razz:

HL2 seems to be quite clever with sound effects- many I place can't be heard through walls and so can be considered as "outdoor only" sounds. But yes, make an env_soundscape (look at the soundscapes.txt in the Source content GCF for valid names) and work from there.

soundscapes.txt in the Source content GCF ...

Thank you, Lep. But for the life of me, I can't seem to find this
soundscapes.txt. I tried looking through all the subdirectories
under Valve, but it doesn't want to be found.

Do I have to extract it from a GCF file first? Is that what I'm missing?

Sorry, I mean the Source Engine GCF- it's in the hl2/scripts directory. You can actually take any of the sentence names from the various soundscapes_*.txt files, e.g. prison.trainstation from the prison soundscapes.

Hey guyz, i know this is an easy question, but i need a suggestion from experts, if i have a map, based on a war in the city, and you want fighting, shooting, and exploding backgrounds in your map, shall i use ambient_generic or env_soundscape, im just confused between them, so i would like an answer from experts in mapping.

Thank you :dorky:

I used ambient's and linked them to sounds scapes.

I'd like to point out that you can easily listen to all sounds if you open up an ambient_generic and when browsing sounds do two things; ?

1. Choose Raw instead of Game Sounds, and

2. Tick auto-play (So you don't have to click each sound).