Changing walk sound

[NeddoFreddo]

Hello all,

I am making a character with the extended sample character template, and so far it's all good. But because my character is... a little on the heavy side... I've been trying to make the sound that plays when you walk around different to the default one. I put this code in the master_postinit:

inst.footstep_path_override = "dontstarve/creatures/leif/walk_vo"

which would hopefully change the walk sound to the one that the treeguard makes.

Well I guess it kinda worked, because the character makes no sound when he walks around, but that's not really the... desired effect.

So would I have to make custom walk sounds, or am I just not doing it properly?

Spoiler

My character is Fat Bastard.... so yeah

 

[DarkXero]

Well, two issues.

One, DS and ROG don't have the footstep override. Only SW has it.

Two, you are changing the path with that.

But the game doesn't use footstep_path as a sound to use path, it uses that to build the new paths where the sounds actually are.

You can see it in worldtiledefs.lua.

 

Use something like:

local _PlayFootstep = GLOBAL.PlayFootstep
GLOBAL.PlayFootstep = function(inst, volume)
	_PlayFootstep(inst, volume)
	if inst and inst:HasTag("player") then
		volume = volume or 1
		local sound = inst.SoundEmitter
		if sound then
			local tile, tileinfo = inst:GetCurrentTileType()
			if tile and tileinfo then
				sound:PlaySound("dontstarve/creatures/leif/walk_vo", nil, volume)
			end
		end
	end
end

That will mix the heavy sound with the step for the player, only.

[NeddoFreddo]

@DarkXero Well, I tried putting this in master_postinit, and it crashes, but even when it's not in master_postnit it still crashes.

Also I wasn't sure about some of the _'s 

--you wrote _PlayFootstep sometimes
local _PlayFootstep = GLOBAL.PlayFootstep
GLOBAL.PlayFootstep = function(inst, volume)
_PlayFootstep(inst, volume)

so what's the reason behind that?

[DarkXero]

27 minutes ago, NeddoFreddo said:

Well, I tried putting this in master_postinit, and it crashes, but even when it's not in master_postnit it still crashes.

What DLC of Don't Starve are you trying to run it on? Shipwrecked?

It should go in modmain, not master_postinit, unless you take the GLOBALs away.

27 minutes ago, NeddoFreddo said:

what's the reason behind that?

I put the _ as I could put old_PlayFootstep or whatever_just_save_it or idontwanttocopypastetheentirefunction as variable names.

[NeddoFreddo]

Ok, thanks, it's working now

I was using SW dlc.

Edited July 6, 2016 by NeddoFreddo