Quote from Shane on August 11, 2012, 10:52 am

I haven't tried that one yet but i'll have a go now and see if it makes any difference

Edit: Nope, no difference

Quote from Habzs on August 11, 2012, 11:00 am

RectorRocks wrote:

It is. I tried it and it worked. I selected and previewed the file name in the sound library and it gives me Exile Vilify. I didn't even modify the field, I selected it off the sound library.

I guess both ways works aswell.

Shane wrote:

Yeah, Hammer played the sound file when I made that input as well. I've tried making a completely blank map from scrath, just 4 walls the player and the radio, even then it still refused to play. Although the tutorial I used was from Portal 1 it doesn't seem as if the procedure has changed too much, yet I simply can't wrap my head around this one :/

I'm not quite sure why it won't work. Do you mind uploading the .vmf file to have a look?

Quote from Shane on August 11, 2012, 11:03 am

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?012ahlc7ffbwfla

Bare in mind this was initially made in the BEE before export so you'll need the BEE assets for some of the instances. The location of the radio at the moment isn't where I intend to have it in final design, just stuck it there to test people's various suggestions for now.

Quote from RectorRocks on August 11, 2012, 11:09 am

Okay, this is the real step-by-step on how I make a radio in my map. In the tutorial below: I used a trigger, you can also use a logic_auto. You might want to start it from scratch and follow this tutorial.

1) Create a prop_physics_override
2) Under the World Model field, browse for the radio model. (radio_reference.mdl)
3) Name it "radio"
4) Go to the Flags tab
5) Check that all of the boxes should be unchecked (meaning empty), except for "Generate output on +USE"
6) Create a ambient_generic
7) Name it "radio_sound"
8] Change the Start Volume from "0" to "10"
9) Change the Sound Name to "music.sp_a2_dual_lasers_r1"
10) Change the Source Entity Name to "radio"
11) Go to the Flags tab
12) Check that all of the boxes should be unchecked (meaning empty), except for "Start Silent"
13) Go to the trigger and the Outputs tab.
14) Add a new Output.
15) OnTrigger -> radio_sound -> PlaySound
16) Click Apply.
16.25) Make sure that the ambient_generic is near to your prop_physics_override.
16.5) If you want to trigger by a logic_auto,
16.50) Go to the your logic_auto and the Outputs tab.
16.53) Add a new Output.
16.56) OnMapSpawn -> radio_sound - > PlaySound
16.59) Click Apply.
17) Try it now. It should work. If it doesn't then I don't know.

Quote from Habzs on August 11, 2012, 11:18 am

Shane wrote:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?012ahlc7ffbwfla

Bare in mind this was initially made in the BEE before export so you'll need the BEE assets for some of the instances. The location of the radio at the moment isn't where I intend to have it in final design, just stuck it there to test people's various suggestions for now.

I can't seem to get it playing in your map. My theory is that there is too many sounds playing at once, the crushers.

Quote from Shane on August 11, 2012, 11:21 am

The same thing happened when I tried doing it in a brand new blank map so I'm not sure that's the problem

Quote from RectorRocks on August 11, 2012, 11:23 am

RectorRocks wrote:

Okay, this is the real step-by-step on how I make a radio in my map. In the tutorial below: I used a trigger, you can also use a logic_auto. You might want to start it from scratch and follow this tutorial.

1) Create a prop_physics_override
2) Under the World Model field, browse for the radio model. (radio_reference.mdl)
3) Name it "radio"
4) Go to the Flags tab
5) Check that all of the boxes should be unchecked (meaning empty), except for "Generate output on +USE"
6) Create a ambient_generic
7) Name it "radio_sound"
8] Change the Start Volume from "0" to "10"
9) Change the Sound Name to "music.sp_a2_dual_lasers_r1"
10) Change the Source Entity Name to "radio"
11) Go to the Flags tab
12) Check that all of the boxes should be unchecked (meaning empty), except for "Start Silent"
13) Go to the trigger and the Outputs tab.
14) Add a new Output.
15) OnTrigger -> radio_sound -> PlaySound
16) Click Apply.
16.25) Make sure that the ambient_generic is near to your prop_physics_override.
16.5) If you want to trigger by a logic_auto,
16.50) Go to the your logic_auto and the Outputs tab.
16.53) Add a new Output.
16.56) OnMapSpawn -> radio_sound - > PlaySound
16.59) Click Apply.
17) Try it now. It should work. If it doesn't then I don't know.

Did you redo it from scratch (delete it and redo it) and follow this tutorial?

Quote from Shane on August 11, 2012, 11:26 am

I did, but there's a couple of things I stil need clarifying:

Firstly, I didn't see an "on trigger" option, I presume you mean that I need to create a trigger, or alter one already in the map?

Secondly I did try it by creating a new logic_auto and tying it to the events you mentioned but that still seemed to make no difference. For some unknown reason the start volume was set to 0 and the overall volume to 10, I changed the start volume to 10 and that seemed to make no difference. I'm going to try it again in a blank map to make utterly sure that the PTI entities aren't somehow interfering

Quote from Shane on August 11, 2012, 11:33 am

Ok, just tested it in a blank map and it works perfectly so there must be something else preventing it from working