As the title says I've become addicted to placing sound files in key locations within my scripts, it adds a TON of fun to playing UO. There are a lot of different types of sound files out there and, for whatever reason, it only seems to work when I use .wav files but that's fine, I have lots of those.
For example: When an idoc falls a .wav file of crows going crazy lets me know, it works even when the game screen is minimized. Actually it goes off when I get disconnected from UO too which is great at letting me know to log back on. Another I use is in my bandaging script, when I am no longer under attack, which is usually because I've killed the attacker, I blow the corpse a kiss.wav. I even added a nuke.wav when I open up an SoS while fishing, lots of sound files in that script to keep me awake!
Anyway, a great site I found for free .wav files is
http://www.wavsource.com/ . All you need to do is download a .wav file, place it in the same folder as your script and add a line to your code where you want it to go off, ie: "sound mysoundfile.wav", rename it to whatever your sound file is called of course. I still haven't figured out where to put the "activity unproductive" sound file from the people<women page 1 section
"DADDY, THE CROWS ARE GOING, THE HOUSE MUST BE GONE!!" - when I'm on the throne and the kids hear the crows, fun times!!
bonus: if you use sound files while testing a script you've written you can figure out what the code is doing as you play and spot problems. I used a ghost.wav file when initiating a hide attempt and found out that I was trying to hide way too many times within the script... and in places I didn't need to. It's not always obvious something isn't working right, until you hear it.
What sites do you use for free sound files ??
