Lots of Questions

[Neku]

I tried to use LocalPlayer(), but I don't seem to be using it correctly.

How does LocalPlayer() work?
And how does the EmitSound here differ from the regular EmitSound?

Please don't link me to this.

Code: Lua

1. -- This will play sounds client side
2. local function rcvSound( um )
3.         local str = um:ReadString()
4.         if not ULib.fileExists( "sound/" .. str ) then
5.                 Msg( "[LC ULib ERROR] Received invalid sound\n" )
6.                 return
7.         end
8.  
9.         if LocalPlayer():IsValid() then
10.                 LocalPlayer():EmitSound( Sound( str ) )
11.         end
12. end
13. usermessage.Hook( "ulib_sound", rcvSound )

[MrPresident]

LocalPlayer() always returns the player's entity clientside. You can see other players' entities clientside too, but LocalPlayer() will always be you. How did you try to use it before?

EmitSound is shared. It has the same function on server and client, but if you call it clientside, only the client it is called on will hear it. If you omit the second 2 parameters (volume and pitch) they just default to normal.

[Neku]

Code: Lua

1. local function AddToScript( str ) -- This adds whatever sound is to be played to a script.
2.         if not str then
3.                 return
4.         end
5.         sound.Add( {
6.         name = "round_sound",
7.         channel = CHAN_STATIC,
8.         volume = 1.0,
9.         level = 0,
10.         pitchstart = 100,
11.         pitchend = 100,
12.         sound = str
13.         } )
14. end
15.  
16. local function RoundSound( str ) -- Plays the round sound.
17.         AddToScript( str )
18.         currentlyplayingsound = true
19.                 if LocalPlayer():IsValid() then
20.                         LocalPlayer():EmitSound( Sound( "round_sound" ) )
21.                 end
22.         end
23. end
24.  
25. local function StopRoundSound() -- Stops JUST the round sound.
26.         if not currentlyplayingsound then
27.                 return
28.         else
29.                 currentlyplayingsound = false
30.         end
31.                 if LocalPlayer():IsValid() then
32.                         LocalPlayer():StopSound( "round_sound" )
33.                 end
34.         end
35. end

I was doing this. It's definitely not giving the expected result.