Command to make player play sound (again no GUI)

[Brixmon]

Hey! I've got another problem here.
Pretty much the same as what I needed before, but even simpler, and for sound files this time.

This is probably a dumb question, the answer to which should be obvious to those more experienced than I, but alas, I can't decipher bldoc.nullable.se to find the information I seek, soo...

For the same reasons as before, I want to make a /command to make the player(not the client or server) play a 3d sound. Specifically, I was trying to make it randomly select a sound from a list, which I sampled Player_Overwatch for, since that Tracer playertype can play multiple random sounds for its blink ability. But I obviously messed something simple up here, I just don't know what it is.

This is the test addon's code in its entirety.

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//Emote_Alarm.cs

datablock AudioProfile(chrys_scream1Sound)
{
filename = "./chrys_scream1.wav";
description = AudioClosest3d;
preload = false;
};

datablock AudioProfile(chrys_scream2Sound : chrys_scream1Sound)
{
filename = "./painis_2.wav";
};

datablock AudioProfile(chrys_scream3Sound : chrys_scream1Sound)
{
filename = "./duckn_alert.wav";
};

datablock AudioProfile(chrys_scream4Sound : chrys_scream1Sound)
{
filename = "./skel_buzz_skeletonalarm.wav";
};

function serverCmdhorrortest(%client)
{
if(isObject(%client.player))
%pl.schedule(1,playAudio,4,chrys_scream @ getRandom(1,4) @ Sound);
}
Clearly a simple error, as the console spits this out when I try the test command.

Add-Ons/Script_PlayerHorrorSounds/horrorsounds.cs (0): Unable to find object: '' attempting to call function 'schedule'
BackTrace: ->serverCmdhorrortest

And of course, it doesn't play the sound. To clarify, I did check that the sounds worked. They do... even though it took me like two days to figure out that they had to be 16-bit PCM wavs.

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[Shift Kitty]

Because you're calling a function on %pl when that variable is never declared. Replace that with %client.player.schedule
In fact, does it even need to be scheduled?
%client.player.playAudio(4,etc); should work fine.

Some chat snips from the Blockland Content Creators should be helpful for understanding why this happened.

[12:42 PM] Lake: Looks like %obj isn't defined anywhere
[1:09 PM] McTwist: Change %obj to %player. However, I'm unsure if the muzzle functions is defined in the player.
[1:10 PM] Ze Operator: worth a shot.
[1:38 PM] nul: It is
[1:38 PM] Ze Operator: Technically speaking though,
[1:38 PM] Ze Operator: isn't %player and %obj technically the same?(edited)
[1:40 PM] nul: The thing about variables is that it doesn't matter what you call them. In onTrigger specifically, you could set it up like
function Armor::onTrigger(%ass,%titty,%conan,%blocklandisdead)
and %ass would be the datablock, %titty would be the player object, %conan would be the trigger, and %blocklandisdead would be  the state of the trigger.
[1:40 PM] nul: It's the order that matters, not the name.
[1:40 PM] nul: And in this case, neither %player nor %obj would be the player, they are undefined.
[1:41 PM] Ze Operator: I figured as much.
[1:41 PM] nul: In your function, %obj is never defined, but %player is.
[1:42 PM] Ze Operator: And, by the way you put it, torque is looking for a %obj because it was defined in function Armor.
[1:42 PM] Ze Operator: It's not looking for %player.(edited)
[1:42 PM] nul: When it says Unable to find object: '' That usually means the variable, in this case %obj, is completely blank.
[1:46 PM] Ze Operator: ....Now that is where sensical just lost it's meaning.
[1:46 PM] Ze Operator: -_-
[1:47 PM] Ze Operator: Wait, hang on
[1:47 PM] Ze Operator: Nope, nvm
[1:48 PM] nul: Not really. Variables can't just assign themselves values out of nowhere. There is no %obj in the function header (%this, %player, %slot, %val) and there's no %obj = ##; anywhere in the function. But don't worry about %obj, just replace all instances of it in that function with %player

Where in this case, the first variable is the client calling the command, and any following variables are the other things they type after the command.
Eg:
serverCmdButts(%butt,%leftCheek,%rightCheek)
/butts 2 4
%butt would be the client calling the function, %leftCheek would be 2, and %rightCheek would be 4.




Edit: Also, don't playAudio on slot 4 either. Change that to a number from 0-3, if I recall, any higher than that and nothing happens. Just avoid 0 because that's used by default functions (light, pain, and death).

[Brixmon]

-scissors-

Thanks for the help, that worked. I knew from the start that this was simple, as I pretty much copied the code. I also knew that probably wouldn't work, but I didn't know what else to do.
Thing is, I don't know the names of default variables or functions, nor what they do. The reference site I went to only seems to list them, not explain them.
I also haven't found any references for that sort of thing anywhere, which has made figuring out basic stuff like this very difficult. But that's neither here nor there- thanks a lot for the help!

[Kyuande]

Remember, try to learn the code before you test it, definitely will help with your experience

There is a user wiki for Blockland somewhere on the functions with args and descriptions

[Brixmon]

Remember, try to learn the code before you test it, definitely will help with your experience

I think that a part of the reason why I had trouble with this is that I don't know of any addons that make the player simply play sounds on command, so I had nothing to directly reference. All I could think to do was cobble something together, which I knew probably wouldn't work.
One day I'll probably figure this out. I think I get how the code is structured, I feel like I moreso need to just know... specific strings. Like that client.player thing.

[Kyuande]

That is good. In some weapon addons they do use playAudio on a player object if you are wondering where it can be - looking at user made addons is great, and even better if they comment on what it does

[Brixmon]

That is good. In some weapon addons they do use playAudio on a player object if you are wondering where it can be.

Initially I had planned to try making a bunch of copies of the Alarm emote with no particles, and let the command mod do the randomization for me... but I knew that was a horrible workaround for something that must've been simple, so I tried this. Spawning a bunch of explosions probably wasn't the way to do it.
Not much else to talk about here though, so I'll just thank you  two again for your help and lock it!