Making a Disco

[Funn3lcak3s]

Anyone have a site to send me to about making a working disco, or how to do it.
Thanks in advance.

-Funn3lcak3s

 

[3vlNomad]

All you need is music and lights really...

post what you're having problems figuring out and we'll try to help

 

[Bonez]

yea music and lights and thats about it... and ofcoarse textures lolz

 

[Pizza Steve]

Most people use ambient_generic for their music and I prefer point_spotlight's for my disco lighting althought you can use any combination of lighting to make what you want. Teslas and laser ents are also popular in jail discos.

 

[Funn3lcak3s]

The one problem im having at the moment is when i press a different button to play another song my frames drop to nothing and it pretty much freezes up. Im assuming its how i have my buttons working but im not sure how to set it so it doesnt do that, any help is much appreciated.

 

[Tiger Guy]

I also have a problem, how do I put custom songs to play?

 

[Simon]

I also have a problem, how do I put custom songs to play?

Put the .mp3 or whatever type file in the server, then set it to run that file when using ambient_generic?

 

[Simon]

Under ambient_generic it has the following under "Sound name"

Name of the GameSound entry for the sound to play. Also supports direct .wav/.mp3 filenames. If you supply a WAV/MP3, it must be within '<moddir>/sound' and you must use slashes (/), not backslashes.

 

[3vlNomad]

For help with the buttons and setting it up to work CORRECTLY:

There are 2 (or more) different ways to make this work right, this is what I do (and it works):

### ambient_generic
name: song1 (etc)
song: whatever.mp3 (etc)
volume: 10
start volume: 0
fade in time: 3s
fade out time: 3s
FLAGS:
start silent (CHECKED)
(uncheck the other two)
ESPECIALLY "IS NOT LOOPED", if this flag is checked then you will not be able to control the sound (ie: start/stop) this has been my expierence.

### func_button
output: on pressed, song1, startsound, 0.00
output: on pressed, song2, stopsound, 0.00
output: on pressed, song3, stopsound, 0.00

basically just have the button for song# start that song and stop all of the others at the same time. This will give a 3s overlap of the songs starting/stopping (if you already have one playing) so there is no down-time for the music.


viola! your disco has musicz

 

[Tiger Guy]

Some of my .mp3 and .wav files aren't working either.

Edit: Never mind, they do work.