Can You Triggering Sound/FloatText To Play/Show For Only One Player To Hear/See?

Is it possible to play a sound via triggers for only certain players and not for all to hear? for instance.. one trigger i have plays the error.wav when something doesn't work but everyone hears it in my 10 player game.


also, i use float text a lot. how do you get it to only show float text to certain players? I play dota time to time and i saw this being done there with creep denies.

Using two lines of custom script:
There are a lot of problem associated with using this. Do a search and you should come up with hundreds of threads with more information.

Floating text already has a GUI function for displaying it for certain players only...

Yeah, doesn't that cause Desyncs?

well i've looked numerous times (including just now) for changing float text to display to certain players and i dont see it. unless it can only be done in certain editors. i use standard world edit that came with game.

and no I don't believe it causes Desyncs, let me check though.

Edit: I doesn't seem to...

No I was saying that using GetLocalPlayer() causes desyncs. But floating text doesn't use it so it's fine.

GetLocalPlayer() only causes desyncs when it is used to change the game-state for only 1 person (exmaple: kill a unit, remove a destructible, give player gold, etc.)

If you use it for visual or interface purposes, it's normally fine. I usually wait till the last possible time to use GetLocalPlayer(). For example, to make a multiboard for 1 player, I create the multiboard, set all the values for all the players, and then use GetLocalPlayer() to display it. All players have a multiboard in memory, but only 1 player can see it.

AHHH. i dont know why i didn't notice that. i kept thinking that was just like how you hide units.. .. i kept looking for something that was like the way other types of texts were handled.

does that work with ftext only or sound too?

now that ammorth showed me what i could do with ftext..(thx) i have a few sounds that are annoying when you aren't the player owning the unit and have to hear it.

yes it works, you can also use this method (both work the same)

Make a new player variable called LocalPlayer and then make a trigger like this:


then you can use your variable LocalPlayer to play sounds for a certain player. Ex, plays the sound for player 1 (red)


And thats it!

1. does it have to be named that exactly in order to work?

2. since this is a 10 player map i can array that right?



i find that weird how when the localplayer = player # and play the sound that it knows who to play for when the sound event doesn't actually let you point it to anything. never did anything like that before.

It works because GetLocalPlayer() loops through all players, and does the actions in the "if" for only the ones that match the desired player(s).

EDIT:
So, it would go though a check like this:
Etc.

Actually, GetLocalPlayer() returns a player, but instead of returning the same value for all the players, the function returns the local player. Example:

You are in a game with some friends. You are player 1 and your friends are player 2 and player 4. Now, the map calls GetLocalPlayer() and assigns it to a variable. Your computer runs it, and returns Player 1 (yourself) while your other friend's computers run it and return themselves. Now, this variable has a different value for every player.

If the map were to use it in a condition check (example: LocalPlayer is equal to Player 1 (red)) each computer runs the check. Since the values of LocalPlayer are different, the check will only pass for certain players which have the proper value, in this case Red.

@ 1) No, but the custom script needs to have "udg_<variableName>" for it to work.

@ 2) No, an array is useless. Function returns differently for each player, as stated above.

Well then, Ammorth, I am greatly mistaken. Thanks for clarifying.