Creating Sound

Importing  sound  into  your  map  can greatly
affect  the  mood  and atmosphere.   By adding
environmental sounds player immersion can
be  greatly  affected  and  create  realism.

The  main  rule  for using sound  is  try  to keep the 
size  of  your  file at a minimum preferably in a loop
that will give the desired effect but keep your map
size down.  Music and sound effects in Quake3 are
used  in  the   .wav   file  format.  You  can get  these 
sounds  by  ripping  your  own  personal  library  of
music   -   recordings  or  paruse the Net for sound
loops that will do the trick for your map.  Warning!
If you decided to use copyrighted material your at
risk  of  receiving a nasty letter from legal council
asking  you  to remove the file or face legal action.

   

With  that  out  of  the way  select  the  area  of  your  map
where  the  sound  will  be.  Then right click on  that  area
and  select  "target speaker".   A box will appear  like  the 
shot  above  and  hit  the  "n"  key  to  bring  up  the  entity
window.   Go  to  the  key  field  and  enter  "noise"  and  in
the  value  field  enter  the pathway of the sound file that
you  wish  to  use.   You'll  need  to  create a folder named
"sound"  in  your  baseq3 directory and within that folder
make an additional folder that will have your map name.
This  is  where  the  .wav  file will need to go.  The file path
in  the  value  key  should  look like this. "sound/mymap/
mysound.wav".   The  options  in  the  entity  menu  are as
follows  when  the  appropriate  check  boxes are flagged.

   
      1.  LOOPED ON - The sound will play continuously.
2.  LOOPED OFF - The sound will play only once.
        3.  GLOBAL - The sound will play in the whole map.
        4.  ACTIVATOR - The sound will play with an event.

Most of you will just use the "LOOPED ON" function to
create a sound effect that will be specific to the area
of your map that will add the desired mood .  My only
plea  though  is  that  you  refrain  from torturing the 
community  with  any   Milli Vanilli  tunes.   Thanks  in
advance,   Bubba :}