Help with superadmin death sound.

[jacob428]

I am trying to make it so a custom sound plays when a superadmin dies instead of the default death sounds. The wav is 44100/1441. It currently still plays from the regular deathsounds table. Any help would be appreciated! Also there are no errors currently.

From player.lua:

Code: Lua

1. local admindeathsound = Sound( "sound/fail.wav" )
2.  
3. local function PlayDeathSound(victim)
4.    if not IsValid(victim) then return end
5.         if victim:IsSuperAdmin() then
6.         sound.Play(admindeathsound, victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100)  
7.         end
8.         sound.Play(table.Random(deathsounds), victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100)  
9. end

[Cobalt]

There was an 'end' where the 'else' was suppose to be.

Code: Lua

1. local admindeathsound = Sound( "sound/fail.wav" )
2.  
3. function PlayDeathSound( victim )
4.  
5. if not IsValid( victim ) then
6.         return
7. end
8.  
9. if victim:IsSuperAdmin() then
10.         sound.Play( admindeathsound, victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100 )  
11. else
12.         sound.Play( table.Random( deathsounds ), victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100 )  
13. end
14.  
15. end
16.  

[jacob428]

There was an 'end' where the 'else' was suppose to be.

Code: Lua

1. local admindeathsound = Sound( "sound/fail.wav" )
2.  
3. function PlayDeathSound( victim )
4.  
5. if not IsValid( victim ) then
6.         return
7. end
8.  
9. if victim:IsSuperAdmin() then
10.         sound.Play( admindeathsound, victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100 )  
11. else
12.         sound.Play( table.Random( deathsounds ), victim:GetShootPos(), 90, 100 )  
13. end
14.  
15. end
16.  

With this I get no sound on death, but still no errors. Do the wavs have to be somewhere special for sound.Play?

[Cobalt]

With this I get no sound on death, but still no errors. Do the wavs have to be somewhere special for sound.Play?

You have to put the file in the sound/ directory, run a websync/whatever fastdl thing you have, and do a resource.AddFile for the filename anywhere in lua/autorun
Just to be sure, you have this function hooked, right? I assumed you already had it hooked somewhere else in your file.

[jacob428]

You have to put the file in the sound/ directory, run a websync/whatever fastdl thing you have, and do a resource.AddFile for the filename anywhere in lua/autorun
Just to be sure, you have this function hooked, right? I assumed you already had it hooked somewhere else in your file.

It is hooked, synced and resourced. The wav works fine with the ulx playsound command, but doesn't play on death.

[JamminR]

Reasonably sure Sound() and sound.Play default to the ./sound/ folder, yet, you have the folder specified in the variable.
I'm surprised you're not seeing a 'unable to precache file fail.wav' at client connect on the client side.
My theory, you're trying to play gmod/sound/sound/fail.wav when it should be gmod/sound/fail.wav
Try Sound( "fail.wav" ) instead of Sound( "sound/fail.wav" )

[jacob428]

Reasonably sure Sound() and sound.Play default to the ./sound/ folder, yet, you have the folder specified in the variable.
I'm surprised you're not seeing a 'unable to precache file fail.wav' at client connect on the client side.
My theory, you're trying to play gmod/sound/sound/fail.wav when it should be gmod/sound/fail.wav
Try Sound( "fail.wav" ) instead of Sound( "sound/fail.wav" )

My friend, you've hit the nail on the head. Just changed sound/fail.wav to fail.wav and it works perfectly. Thank you so much!

[JamminR]

Welcome. Glad our community could be of assistance.