Tip: How to show a beacon in v3.1 0 - silence.ogg

[aubergine]

The Warzone 3.1 JS API doesn't have any way to show a beacon without playing a sound effect. Luckily, there's a "silence.ogg" audio file which as it's name suggests is silent.

Thus, you can show beacons in 3.1 as follows:

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playSound("silence.ogg",x,y,z);

Where x,y,z are the coordinates for the beacon to appear. (:

silence.ogg can also be used to create a short pause between queued audio messages.

[Giani]

(:

*Off topic* You stole NoQ 's smile!

[NoQ]

I also stole it from some guy // who didn't spam it tastelessly like i do, btw (:
P.S. Nice catch, it's sort of useful for debugging! To see things visually.
P.P.S. If only there was a way to receive a beacon ...
P.P.P.S. At least this can be used to communicate with humans ...

[aubergine]

Yup, I did rob NoQ's smiley (:

And yes, this is useful for allowing an AI to do some basic level communication with human player. I guess we'll have to wait for 3.2 before we can do proper comms using chat, beacon receiving, etc.

[Cyp]

/me did not rob NoQ's smiley. (:

[Berg]

what (:

[aubergine]

Just realised that creating a beacon with playSound() means that the beacon is only shown to the human player on the client machine, it won't appear for allies or enemies - it's a private beacon, which will be useful in several situations