earu / neo-chatsounds

Memes in the Garry's Mod chat.

neo-chatsounds

Memes in the Garry's Mod chat.

What is this?

This repository is a Garry's Mod addon that adds chat sounds in your game. It suggests a list of sounds you can play when typing. There are thousands of sounds available.

It also comes with a twist: you can modify each sounds with modifiers.

How do I know what sounds exist?

You have multiple options here:

1. Check the various repositories used to build the sound list
   • https://github.com/Metastruct/garrysmod-chatsounds
   • https://github.com/PAC3-Server/chatsounds
   • https://github.com/PAC3-Server/chatsounds-valve-games
2. Type various things in the chat and scroll through the suggestions made.

How do I add sounds?

Typically you can either add sounds in this repo or in this one. Each of them are maintained by different people but the rules for adding a sound are the same.

• Note 1: Do check their readme.md!
• Note 2: These need to be added to repo_config.json they are not included by default!

How do I add more sound sources/repos?

If you go in garrysmod/data/chatsounds you should find a file called repo_config.json. Open it and add the repositories you want to the config following the existing format. In most cases you should keep UseMsgPack to false, unless you do actually use .msgpack files. For now the only repos/sources supported are GitHub repositories.

Disclaimer: By default the config only loads the valve sound repos.

Example for this repo:

{
	"Repo": " PAC3-Server/chatsounds",
	"Branch": "master",
	"BasePath": "sounds/chatsounds",
	"UseMsgPack": false,
}

Modifiers ?

Modifiers are a big part of chatsounds, they allow you to transform sounds and make them into something else. Some people even made songs with them!.

Here's an example:

• Normal unmodified sounds:

   standing here i realize
  

• With a pitch modifier:

   standing here:pitch(0.5) i realize
  

  This will in turn pitch down the first sound. You can also group sounds together:

   (standing here i realize):pitch(0.8)
  

• Legacy modifiers:

   standing here%50 i realize
  

  Wait a minute what is this?

  Because chatsounds has a lot of legacy some syntax was also kept in as back-compatbility so that people's favorite ways of messing with chatsounds don't just disappear!

  The above is a legacy pitch modifier, instead of working from -5 to 5 like the current pitch modifier does it works from 1 to 255

Where can I find a list of modifiers?

Right now there has never been a documentation made for the chatsounds syntax, or what modifiers exist, I do plan on making one though!

What is this useful for?

Absolutely nothing, this is only for fun and it is very possible that you may not see any added value to it. If you wish to see it in action you can always join these servers:

• Meta Construct EU #1 - steam://connect/g1.metastruct.net
• Meta Construct EU #2 - steam://connect/g2.metastruct.net
• Meta Construct US #3 - steam://connect/g3.metastruct.net

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome so long as it TESTED before. Please do respect the existing coding conventions (naming, etc...) and make sure your code is optimized, performances matter especially in this project.

neo-chatsounds's Issues

Play Chatsounds if the source (player) is near the local player

Neo Chatsounds seemingly doesn't have a check if the player is nearby or not.
This results in creating a lot of WebAudio streams, which can possibly affect performance not in a good way:

Suggestions

• Have a ConVar for distance
• Have the distance as a constant

Negative percentage on loading

This issue cannot be intentionally reproduced albeit has happened not only to me.