Ambient generic (GoldSrc)

Description

An ambient_Generic is essentially an audio player, that plays a single specified sound within a given radius inside a map. Ambient_generics are used to create sound effects throughout a map, either playing the sound once, or continually repeating the sound (looping). ambient_generic audio comes from WAV files located in the game's Sound file directory. Example: \Half-Life\Valve\Sound\Barney\Hello.WAV

Key Values

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Universal Ambient:

WAV Name ([todo internal name (i)]) <sound>

The file name of the sound to play. Relative to the mod/sound folder, for instance: anbience/techamb1.wav

Volume ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

A number between 1 and 10. The sound emitted will be scaled by this number where 10 is the loudest and 1 is almost completely silent.

Dynamic Presets ([todo internal name (i)]) <choices>

Modifies the sound with various effects and reverbs.

• 0 : "None"
• 1 : "Huge Machine"
• 2 : "Big Machine"
• 3 : "Machine"
• 4 : "Slow Fade in"
• 5 : "Fade in"
• 6 : "Quick Fade in"
• 7 : "Slow Pulse"
• 8 : "Pulse"
• 9 : "Quick pulse"
• 10 : "Slow Oscillator"
• 11 : "Oscillator"
• 12 : "Quick Oscillator"
• 13 : "Grunge pitch"
• 14 : "Very low pitch"
• 15 : "Low pitch"
• 16 : "High pitch"
• 17 : "Very high pitch"
• 18 : "Screaming pitch"
• 19 : "Oscillate spinup/down"
• 20 : "Pulse spinup/down"
• 21 : "Random pitch"
• 22 : "Random pitch fast"
• 23 : "Incremental spinup"
• 24 : "Alien"
• 25 : "Bizzare"
• 26 : "Planet X"
• 27 : "Haunted"

Start Volume ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

The volume to start a fade in at if fadein time is specified.

Fade in time ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Time to fully fade from start volume to volume.

Fade out time ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Time to fully fade from volume to start volume.

Pitch ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

A number from 1-255 that modifies the pitch of the sound where 100 is normal pitch.

Start Pitch ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

The pitch to start a fade in at if fadein time is specified.

Spin up time ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

The time it takes for each incremental spinup if specified to be used.

Spin down time ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

The time it takes for each incremental spindown if specified to be used.

LFO type ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Type of Low Frequency Oscillation to employ.

1. off (default)
2. square (alternate between low and high)
3. tri (crossfade between high and low)
4. random

LFO rate ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

How frequently the LFO effect repeats itself.

LFO mod pitch ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Affects the sound pitch or vibrato. Higher numbers change the pitch more - warbling singers use little, police sirens use a lot.

LFO mod vol ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

Affects the volume of the sound, causing it to "pulse." Similar to tremolo. At a really high rate, this can make the same effect as talking through fan blades.

Incremental spinup count ([todo internal name (i)]) <integer>

The amount of incremental spinups to do if specified to be used.

Flags

• 1 : "Play Everywhere"
• 2 : "Small Radius"
• 4 : "Medium Radius"
• 8 : "Large Radius"
• 16 : "Start Silent"
• 32 : "Not Toggled"

See also

• ambient_generic (Source Engine)