local randomsound = 1
local delay = 5000
local timeout = 1

function RandomSound_init(e)

local timeout = 1
local randomsound = 1

end

function RandomSound_main(e)

PlayerDist = GetPlayerDistance(e)
	if PlayerDist =< 500 and GetTimer(e) >= delay then

		randomsound = math.random(1,4)

		if timeout == 0 then
		
			if randomsound == 1 then
				PlaySound(e,1)
				timeout =1
			end
		
			if randomsound == 2 then
				PlaySound(e,2)
				timeout =1
			end
		
			if randomsound == 3 then
				PlaySound(e,3)
				timeout =1
			end
		
			if randomsound == 4 then
				PlaySound(e,4)
				timeout =1
			end	

		end	 
		
		else
		
		if timeout == 1 then 
			StartTimer(e)
			timeout == 0
		end
	
	end

end

-- randomsound.lua
-- author Belidos
-- re-edits by J_C
--
-- Changed script name from RandomSound.lua
-- to randomsound.lua
-- I believe that the script file name has to be lower case
-- if you look at all the scripts in scripbank they are all lower case.
-- I think I have seen this stated on the forum at some point in the past..


-- script objective
-- i'm trying to create a script so that when you get within a certain distance of an object
-- it randomly plays one of four sounds in its slots, 
-- with a delay of 5 seconds in between sounds.

local randomsound = 1
local delay = 5000
local timeout = 1
local near_dist = 500

-- I had to add this variable to show when the sound is active
local sound_on = 0
 
 
function randomsound_init(e)

-- you are re-delclaring these variable here
-- so these will be new variables local to this init function
-- so not used
-- you could remove the local declaration 
-- but as you have already set them to these values at top then not required here
--
-- if these had been array variables then you would set them to a value here
-- for this [e] entity number as in timeout[e] = 1 but it is not an array here
 
--local timeout = 1
--local randomsound = 1
 
end

function randomsound_main(e)
    -- trying to create a script so that when you get within a certain distance of an object
	PlayerDist = GetPlayerDistance(e)
	if PlayerDist < near_dist then
		-- we are near to object
		if sound_on == 0 then
			-- and the sound is off
			-- it randomly plays one of four sounds in its slots,
			randomsound = math.random(1,4)
			PlaySound(e,randomsound)
			sound_on = 1
			-- with a delay of 5 seconds in between sounds.
			-- first reset the timer so we can check later for time delay
			StartTimer(e)
		elseif sound_on == 1 then
			-- sound is playing - has our 5 seconds elapsed
			if GetTimer(e) > delay then
			   -- times up 
			   -- reset sound for new sound
			   sound_on = 0	
			end
		end
	else
		-- we are not near to object now so turn off sound if on
		if sound_on == 1 then
		   -- sound is active
			StopSound(e, randomsound)
			-- reset for new sound
			sound_on = 0
		end 
	end
end


--original code  
function randomsound0_main(e)
	PlayerDist = GetPlayerDistance(e)
    if PlayerDist < 500 and GetTimer(e) > delay then
        randomsound = math.random(1,4)
        if timeout == 0 then        
            if randomsound == 1 then
                PlaySound(e,1)
                timeout =1
            end         
            if randomsound == 2 then
                PlaySound(e,2)
                timeout =1
            end        
            if randomsound == 3 then
                PlaySound(e,3)
                timeout =1
            end        
            if randomsound == 4 then
                PlaySound(e,4)
                timeout =1
            end
        end          
    else         
        if timeout == 1 then
            StartTimer(e)
            timeout = 0
        end    
    end
end