Chat Sound

[Flinta]

Hello!

What could be fun on a server if players writed lol a laughing sound will play that others could hear,
or custom it how you like it.  And when typing an Chat bubble appear over head.

Like use ulx forcedownload or resource.AddFile to add sound clips and a lua code to play them when typing lol on chat.

That would be fun. 

thanks for reading.

[jay209015]

I thought of this when I first started coding in lua, and yes it was fun until you got like 4 or more people on the server, especially once someone realizes that the sound plays everytime they "lol". I already have a pending request tonight, but it's small. So if you want I can make it for you, but you'll have to provide the .wav file.

[JamminR]

Indeed. A module perhaps, but, definitely not a suggestion to include in ULX by default.

[Megiddo]

Here's the code I used to do it at some point...

Code: Lua

1. -- Sounds
2. local soundPrefix = "-" -- prefix to use for chat sounds
3. local soundsBase = "../sound/chat"
4.  
5.  
6. function checkChat( ply, txt )
7.         if txt:sub( 1, soundPrefix:len() ) == soundPrefix then
8.                 local folder = soundsBase .. "/" .. txt:sub( soundPrefix:len() + 1 )
9.                 if file.IsDir( folder ) then -- If we have sounds
10.                         local files = file.Find( folder .. "/*" )
11.  
12.                         if #files < 1 then return end
13.                         local f = files[ math.random( 1, #files ) ]
14.                         while file.IsDir( folder .. "/" .. f ) do -- Make sure it's not a folder
15.                                 f = files[ math.random( 1, #files ) ]
16.                         end
17.  
18.                         umsg.Start( "ulib_sound" )
19.                                 umsg.String( folder .. "/" .. f )
20.                         umsg.End()
21.                 end
22.         end
23. end
24. hook.Add( "PlayerSay", "SoundsCheckChat", checkChat )

This code was written roughly four years back, I think, but I don't see anything offhand that garry broke between then and now. You just create folders under sound/chat for each word you want a sound for, like sound/chat/lol, sound/chat/hi, etc. It picks a random file from each of those directories to play to everyone. In this case, the words need to be prefixed by '-', but you could easily modify this code to pick up chat sounds some other way. You'll need ULib installed to use this or you'll need to make your own sound receiving function. To install this script, stick it in autorun on your server.

[JamminR]

(Disclaimer - I didn't look at the code!)
Wow Megiddo, independent folders for each sound?
Surely Garry had a random number selection 4 years ago.
If possible I'd used. /sound/myrandomwordsound/
hi01
hi02
hi03
lol01
lol02
lol03...
Allows for 99 sounds per word. Evan that in my opinion would have been too much.

[Megiddo]

(Disclaimer - I didn't look at the code!)
Wow Megiddo, independent folders for each sound?
Surely Garry had a random number selection 4 years ago.
If possible I'd used. /sound/myrandomwordsound/
hi01
hi02
hi03
lol01
lol02
lol03...
Allows for 99 sounds per word. Evan that in my opinion would have been too much.

It's one folder per word, the files in there are chosen at random when the word is used.

[Flinta]

yay! Works perfecly , Thanks alot

Now only anti-world/prop noclip left , and have an complete build server

[JamminR]

Oops. I meant to say one folder per word, not sound.
Still, the archives you have that come out of the woodwork always entertain me.
<Some obscure rarely asked for idea>... oh, I've done that...here's the code.

[Megiddo]

Still, the archives you have that come out of the woodwork always entertain me.
<Some obscure rarely asked for idea>... oh, I've done that...here's the code.

<shifty eyes> ULX isn't a cover for a top secret government lua script, honest!

[Frrz]

<shifty eyes> ULX isn't a cover for a top secret government lua script, honest!

Liar, that's what you all want us to think.