Alarm

[Sotha]

I'm implementing a basic alarm klaxon on my mission and am currently thinking how to set things up.

 

I've one question: is it possible to create a loud noise from a speaker, which the AI would hear and lure them to its location from a certain radius.

 

Essentially I'm thinking about a speaker, which would function as a noise arrow, with custom sound and larger radius. It would feel logical if the guards drew their swords if they hear the alarm.

 

Is this kind of thing implemented yet?

[Fidcal]

I've already added this to bugtracker....

 

http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=2209

 

It might be possible to define one without any new code but I'm not sure.

[Sotha]

I've already added this to bugtracker....

 

http://bugs.angua.at/view.php?id=2209

 

It might be possible to define one without any new code but I'm not sure.

 

Okay. Good to know. The proposal looks really good.

 

Luckily, I can emulate this by simply giving some stationary guards new targets upon alarm to have them rush to the alarm site.

[Baddcog]

Yeah it can be done. There's a little info on the Wiki I believe and Springheel had posted some sound defs in a post a few weeks ago.

 

Go down to 'How the system works'

 

http://modetwo.net/d...timating_Volume

 

Guards will be alerted and run to the sound.

[Fidcal]

I thought these things all needed special code for each one. So what we need is say:

 

File: alarm_sounds.def.....

 

entityDef sprGS_alarm_sound
{
"inherit" "atdm:propagated_sound_base"
"vol" "42.6"
"dur" "100"
"alert_factor"	"0.35"
"alert_max"	"9"
"editor_usage"	"Propagated alarm sound"
}

Then we just create a speaker where we want an alert.

Give it a suitable alarm sound (or could be silent ogg if we just want to cause an alert like I did in Alchemst.)

We give the speaker the spawnarg sprs_alarm_sound

 

So when we trigger the above speaker that would alert any AI within range? Have I understood this correctly?

 

 

[EDIT] Or do we instead give the speaker snd_alarm_sound <shader> as well as its s_shader <shader>?