Wet texture need sound

[Fidcal]

I made a large very shallow puddle but can't get it to sound like a wet footstep - it's just normal stone. Added water to the texture but makes no difference. I'm not bothered about a visible splash just the sound. Any ideas?

[Shadowhide]

maybe :

 

surftype15

description "mud"

 

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Edited June 26, 2011 by Shadowhide

[Glyph Seeker]

Perhaps ask Sotha as well - he has loads of puddles in The Transaction in the street which make a splashing sound.

[Mortem Desino]

Your puddle should be an atdm:liquid_water entity. (and make sure that your puddle's bottom surface reaches below the world geometry.)

 

Otherwise, the foolproof way is you could just lay down some decal patches of "textures/common/tdm_nodrawsolid_liquid" or "tdm_nodrawsolid_mud"

 

EDIT: or tdm_nodrawsolid_puddle? I think puddle is the "pitter-patter", and liquid is the "SPLASH SLOSH".

[Fidcal]

OK, thanks all. That gives me new things to try. I've spent two days on this puddle so far. We should have a puddle contest.

[Fidcal]

Well surftype worked although I used "puddle" instead of "mud" but in the end I had to use the nodraw method because the layout of puddle meant the splosh noise extended a little too far. Nodraw gave me complete control where it would sound. This puddle now has four patches on top of each other! nodraw, dark-wet-snow-melt, snow-melt-edge, and obscured dark mirror. Crazy.

[ungoliant]

prefab it? Anyone can use bulge patch with a large grid value on a dense patch and fill in some of the gaps with that mudpuddle prefab. save us little-folk some work trying to emulate you

[Fidcal]

This particular puddle is too custom for general use.

 

It started out as my attempt to soften the edge where snow ends where rural area meets town. My 'crumb' method as used with some dirts and grass was not great on its own with snow but by overlaying it with a colorme grime and underlaying that with a dark mirror it is much improved. Apart from the shape of this one I think it would be very rare for any map to need this snow > puddle set up compared to say a normal rain puddle. And I had to put my darkening on top so it also darkened the snow edge to make it look like slush.

 

One problem is that I think only one mirror texture is allowed per leaf so normally that fake sky mirror would be better. I couldn't use it here because this map is a foggy one so no sky to reflect. I was lucky that this is the only place in this map where it is needed (I think.)

 

I think some generic puddles might be made with the dark grime surround first then the fake mirror on top. Actually it probably would be better with a new doughnut shaped circular grime that fades at the edges but also fades to a hole in the middle and lay this over the mirror. That would get rid of the hard straight edges we had in say St. Lucia. But then this grime becomes dominant for the splash sound so it needs a further nodraw solid over the mirror part.

 

I'd like to make a few prefabs but as ever, time is the enemy. We'll see.