playing default weapon sounds

[Mx. Amber]

I need to play the sound of a stock weapon via script. I thought it seemed easy enough, look up the sound name in the config viewer, feed it into playSound, done. Except in the config viewer, the CfgSounds only has a tiny selection of sounds and I couldn't find them anywhere else either. Any help?

[Hortzy]

weapons sounds are fed directly into class cfgWeapons, under the appropriate classname of course.
However they don't use sound classnames either, so using playSound will not work.
You'll have to use playSound3d

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playSound3D

playSound3D ["A3\sounds_f\weapons\mx\mx-st-full-1.wss", player];

[Mx. Amber]

Originally posted by Hortzy:

weapons sounds are fed directly into class cfgWeapons, under the appropriate classname of course.
However they don't use sound classnames either, so using playSound will not work.
You'll have to use playSound3d

Where'd you find the full sound? If I look at any weapon in the CfgWeapons, I only find them cut into pieces as Begin and Closure.

[Hortzy]

well, i don't think arma uses those base sound files anymore (Or if they ever did? maybe they're just the base sounds they used for generating the ones located inside CfgWeapons).
It seems cfgWeapons uses sounds located in the "arsenal" folder.
"a3\sounds_f\arsenal\weapons\rifles\mx\mx_short_01.wss" would be the equivalent to "A3\sounds_f\weapons\mx\mx-st-full-1.wss" more or less.

I just played back both sound files and they were identical. Maybe just a second shorter.

So in short you can use the sound file posted within the begin1[] begin2[] etc aswell

[Hortzy]

and to answer your first question.
I have the entire game unpacked in a project drive for terrain creation and mod making.
So its fairly easy for me to browse through the game files without using a config viewer