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Hello everybody. Here is my problem.
I can`t make usermade sounds work in my era
it`s in .ogg, but still there is no sound

what can be the problem, I just don`t know where to start

Elmor wrote:what can be the problem, I just don`t know where to start

It's difficult for anyone to know what's wrong, as things currently stand. A good place to start is by posting your WML.

the most likely problem is probably your file path. Your _main file should have the directory in it like this {~add-ons/my_era/sound/}. Otherwise the folder it is in should be included when you call the music with wml.

Azeal wrote:Your _main file should have the directory in it like this {~add-ons/my_era/sound/}. Otherwise the folder it is in should be included when you call the music with wml.

No it shouldn’t. Only .cfg files and directories containing them should be included. Including anything else does nothing but waste your and Wesnoth’s time.

8680 wrote:

Azeal wrote:Your _main file should have the directory in it like this {~add-ons/my_era/sound/}. Otherwise the folder it is in should be included when you call the music with wml.

No it shouldn’t. Only .cfg files and directories containing them should be included. Including anything else does nothing but waste your and Wesnoth’s time.

Yeah, 8680 is right. Including your sound, music, images or maps directories does absolutely nothing. Yet for some reason a lot of people seem to do it.

So, I must add some .cfg to _main that shows my sounds?
my _main now contains only era.cfg and units, how can I use my sounds?

Do you have [binary_path] in the _main.cfg?

sure, I have

it contains era.cfg and units

Just post your WML.

Nothing wrong with that, meaning that you must be referencing the sounds wrong. Or placed them in somewhere else than Wesnoth_era/sounds/.

where than? in era folder?

Let's say you have a sound file called my_sound.ogg. You would place it inside the directory Wesnoth_era/sounds/. Now, with a correct binary path (and yours is correct), Wesnoth will now look in that directory for sound files. So, if you want to use the sound somewhere, you just use it by its name, my_sound.ogg

This is also said in the WML reference, by the way: InterfaceActionsWML#[sound]

I did EXACTLY as you said

Well, you're still doing something wrong. No one can know what it is without seeing what you have.