Splash sound for plat?

[Cobalt]

Was thinking about this and tried some code, so far dead end. Take the plat on E1M2 as example. When it rises, it ought to make a noise when its exiting the water, then again when it enters.

Apparently the QC creates a trigger field covering the plats max and min travel. A plat is always a model it seems generated from the map.bsp itself, and therefore its not a dynamic entity we can manipulate by checking its pointcontents at its self.origin to trigger a noise.

I suppose the only way would be to physicly map out the coordinates the trigger's box is in the water , and not - then scan the position of the moving plat and if its in that area , trigger the noise. Cant see any other way....

[qbism]

Couple of triggerless ideas:
1. Add a feature to plat qc to play an extra non-looped sound with some time delay. Or percentage of travel distance. Different delay (and optionally different sound) for up and down directions.

2. The plat sound file could be a single long sound rather than a short loop. Takes effort to mix the sound and time it properly, but it could go into even more detail:
- plat start-up underwater
- plat traveling underwater
- plat breaks through water
- plat travel above water (w/ drip sounds)
- plat final travel above water (no drips)
- plat grinds to a halt

A separate 'down' sound would be needed of course.

Guess either idea needs to deal with plat obstruction/reversal. Anyway, not a final solution but an idea to mix with something else.

[Ghost_Fang]

isn't there a self.waterlevel that the QC uses? For the lighting gun as an example. Or is it only for players and/or non bsp entities?

[Cobalt]

[Cobalt]

UPDATE:

Worked on this a little more today.

The plat on E1M2 is not to hard to code because it travels completely in and out of water. However, on a map like E2M2 for example - the first thing is there are doors really being used in most cases, not plats. Not a huge problem, only also all of them are unlike the one in E1M2 where these are spawned apparently already in water, and some part of them remains in water.

I am thinking maybe spawn an entity with setattachment function so that the entity is about dead center of the plat or doors top + about 10 quake units higher than its absmax_z......and have it travel / setorigin always to that same distance as the door / plat operates. FInally , assign a content transition for that entity.

Only trick is, I have not used setattachment at all yet. Would it only be "visible" to the door / plat entity? There is also the concept of just spawning a regular dynamic entity instead and basicly doing the same thing and make the door its .owner ...... ?