Custom Sound

I have already got my custom sounds to work IN Hammer, but all sounds I use are not found within the game.

I have already read over 15 tutorials online (including all officials) about this topic but nothing seems to work. The directory structure of Halflife is so complicated that my sounds were mirrored in 12 different locations (hl2/sound) hl2dm/sound) (root/sound) (mod/sound) etcetera, but the game keeps saying my sounds are NOT found.

Also I tried compiling the sounds within the map (in the .BSP file) but that doesn't work as well. Maybe my path (you have to specify a path like sound/music/this.mp3) within the winbspzip.exe is wrong?

Also I tried to switch my sounds with sounds from other mods or maps with custom sound and then they work, so it's not about a wrong format. My sounds are playable ingame.

Somebody please help.

Thanks.

so it tells you ingame that they cant be found; i.e. the entities are set correctly?

if your map is hl2dm, then the path should be

half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\sound\[yourCustomFolder]\[yourSoundFile]

in your ambient_generic entity, browse to this path.

(Normally programs like packrat etc fix up the paths correctly)

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