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[GrimmC]

Having some trouble with the aforementioned file. As per the wiki, the end of my file looks like this:

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powerup = "wav/dsgetpow.wav",

#include "newsounds.lua"

}
When I have lightning fast reflexes, it says something about a global variable being assigned nil or somesuch.

However, even my previous additions straight to the file didn't work. A typical change:

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reload = "newsounds/dsglkin.wav",newsounds being a folder I created in the main directory. But this also crashed. Help?

[tehtmi]

Sorry, the wiki page you are talking about is for an old version that doesn't use lua for the sound file.

I believe Skulltag Arena has custom sounds, and it's updated to 0.9.9.2.  Sound stuff is probably about the same.  So you can use that as a reference.

You shouldn't use #include anywhere, it doesn't mean anything in lua.

Are you actually trying to make a mod or just change sound bindings?

More details would be helpful. What sound are you trying to change/add?  What is the error message? Maybe attach your entire sound.lua to your post?

[GrimmC]

I'm just changing the sound bindings. For example, importing the supershotgun reload sound from Doom 2 instead of the generic weapon pickup sound in place now.

There is also a mod I'm working on for Doom 2 which expands the enemy sound sets, among other things, so Lost Souls, Cacodemons, and others have their own pain sounds now.

EDIT: Turned out I had messed up some of the filenames, which caused DoomRL to crash. Is there some parameter I can include to make it wait for <enter> until it shuts the window. Right now I'm just hitting the pause key frantically.

[GrimmC]

Putting

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dofile "newsounds.lua" after sound.lua in the config causes DoomRL to fail loading.

Putting it at the end of sound.lua loads normally, but doesn't change anything.

Putting it at the beginning causes DoomRL to fail.

Any suggestions? I'd like to make an add-on file so I don't have to modify the original sound.lua...

[tehtmi]

Is there some parameter I can include to make it wait for <enter> until it shuts the window. Right now I'm just hitting the pause key frantically.

I've attached a replacement for doomrl.bat that will wait for you to press a key before closing the window if there was an error.  You could also just run doomrl from the command line.

Any suggestions? I'd like to make an add-on file so I don't have to modify the original sound.lua...

If you want to add or change sound bindings in a different file, then it will have to use different syntax.  To edit or add an entry, you should do something like

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Sound.door.open = "soundfile.wav"
Sound.reload = "othersoundfile.wav"
Sound.newitem = {
  fire = "firesound.wav"
  reload = "blah.wav"
}
-- and so one...
(I haven't tested this, but I'm pretty sure it should work.)
As you said, make sure to run this after the usual sound.lua (either of the places you said should work).

[GrimmC]

Hi, still having some trouble with the syntax. I put the 'dofile' at the end of sound.lua and pared it down to just one entry:

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Sound.knife = {
attack = "newsounds/dsknfhit.wav",
pickup = "wav/dswpnup.wav",
}Error response is:

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ELuaException : help.lua:4: attempt to index global 'Sound' (a nil value)
The other file, the full one, looks like this up to the error:

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Sound.knife = {
attack = "newsounds/dsknfhit.wav",
pickup = "wav/dswpnup.wav",
},

-- Pistol

Sound.pistol = {
The error is:

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ELuaException : newsounds.lua:8: unexpected symbol near '='
Advice for either one?

[tehtmi]

Alright.  I actually tested this for myself.

For the first question, that should work fine; probably 'dofile' is in the wrong place.  There are two good places to put it:
1) In config.lua.  Put it right after the sound.lua part:

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-- ... stuff above here
dofile "sound.lua"
dofile "newsounds.lua"
-- ... stuff below here
2) At the very end of sound.lua, as in

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-- ... stuff in sound.lua
  powerup = "wav/dsgetpow.wav",
}
dofile("newsounds.lua")

For your second question, you're getting that error because of the comma after the Sound.knife binding: drop it.

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Sound.knife = {
  attack      = "newsounds/dsknfhit.wav",
  pickup      = "wav/dswpnup.wav",
}

-- Pistol

Sound.pistol = {
  -- pistol bindings
}

Also, if you just want to change one knife binding, it may be nicer to do it as

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Sound.knife.attack = "newsounds/dsknfhit.wav"

Just remember: in newsounds.lua, entries at the outer level should not be separated by commas.

If this is all horribly confusing, you could try reading up about lua.

[GrimmC]

I think I have a handle on it, where could I learn more about lua though? For future reference.

[Malek Deneith]

Note - you don't need to use "sound.<id>.<action>" . Just "<id>.<action>" should be enough, that's what is used for default sound.lua anyway.

[GrimmC]

I tried this:

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pistol.reload = "newsounds/dsglkin.wav"
and got this:

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attempt to index global value 'pistol'

[Malek Deneith]

Um. Me bad, I must've not looked carefully. You need to do something like this instead:

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pistol = {
fire = "sounds/Weapons/pistol/pistol_shot_02a.wav",
pickup = "sounds/Weapons/pistol/pistol_use_01.wav",
reload = "sounds/Weapons/pistol/pistol_reload_01.wav",
},
Still no "sound." before that is required. As for tehtmi's single bind example - I'm not sure if the bracket-less syntax is still possible. If it is then perhaps *this syntax* does require prefacing it with "sound."

[GrimmC]

The bracketless bind requires "sound." I haven't tried your example with brackets yet, I'll let you know.

[GrimmC]

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sound.pistol.reload = "newsounds/dsglkin.wav"
results in the same error.

EDIT: It turns out "sound" has to be capitalized.