So I put the fire 1 decal in my level, I'm trying to make it play a fire sound. When I put the file I have inside the Sound 0 or 1 nothing happens when I test it and the sound file gets deleted from the decal.. What to do? :o

There are no sound statements in the default decal scripts.

Add them in and you should be able to get sound from them.
I would put in a distance check from the decal to 75 to 100 units, to when you can hear it, so you dont get a bunch trying to play at the same time. Just the ones that are in range of the player.

As Pirate Myke says you will have to attach a script to the object to play the sound.

Something like this should work. Not tested but can't see any obvious issues.


You probably want LoopSound for a fire as the above will play the sound once only until you move in and out of range again.

Thank you, both of you! Now I am not a big coder... I know more or less nothing about it.. Where should I put this code snippet to get this to work?

Ok try this .... This is a soundtest.lua file I think Lee created in a twitchfeed..
Download the Lua file below and copy it to your scriptbank folder

To test it ....it needs to be attached to a dynamic model (explosive barrel for example )
Place the barrel on the map .... select its properties
In the "Main" field it will say "Default .lua" browse to the "soundtest.lua"
In the "sound 0" field browse to a stock music track.
then run test game

As you get close the music plays and vanishes as you get further away ....
Once you have worked out the procedure you can create a fire.wav and use that ....

You can attach the script to any dynamic object near the fire for the effect ( A small rock for example) or something inconspicuous
Hope this helps

I found an easy way to do this if you don't want to work with script editing is to add a Sound zone and scale/shape it to the area you want the sound (loop sound) to play, in relative to the fire decal. That's what I did and had not even considered using a script as suggested here.

Might not be the most efficient way as far as performance is concerned by easy and works fine. Not sure if I had to add a sound set in an .fpe anywhere as I cant remember off hand and adding sound set (choose sounds) in editor properties for anything crashes GG so if needed inside the entity .fpe is the only way.

Just different approaches. I use sound zones for music and such mainly. Any objects I want to have sounds I normally use a script for them. I normally avoid zones because I think they clutter up the map and can make it difficult to select things within them; also if the object has the sound attached, it allows you to move them around which wouldn't be possible with a zone.