Rollermine:EmitSound ( 'npc/roller/mine/rmine_reprogram.wav', 150, 50 ) Where rollermine is an entity you got from somewhere else As an example, I want to play a sound ( npc/roller/mine/rmine_reprogram.wav) at 150% of regular volume and at 50% of regular pitch, and I want it to emanate from a roller mine: The function takes three arguments the file path, the volume, and the pitch. If you want to just make a sound in the middle of nowhere, you can use a point_info for the entity.įor single play sounds, such as an electric discharge, a gunshot, etc, it is generally best to use Entity: EmitSound. Where you want to play it this is generally managed as an entity that emanates the sound.The Volume: The higher the volume, the louder it is.The Pitch: The pitch is how 'high' or how 'low' the sound is if you don't know what pitch is, think of the difference between mens' and women's voices the men's voices are generally lower in pitch, while womens' are generally higher.The File Path: This is the path to the file, relative to the sound/ directory so, if your file is garrysmod/sound/mymod/mysound.wav, then you would use mymod/mysound.wav.There are generally four things that you need to know to play a sound: From here, you should be able to find a sound. Then, place an ambient_generic entity open the properties by selecting it and pressing alt+enter, then click on the sound property, and click browse. If nothing else, you can use the Hammer Editor to look for sounds open the Source SDK from steam, and select the Half Life 2 configuration. gcf files, this isn't an easy task I recommend using an in game browser to find these sounds. You have to search through all the sound files, and since most of them are in the.

The hardest part of adding a sound effect is finding the sound itself.

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