Capturing sound from far away

[MrManiak]

Hi FacePunch,

I'm currently building a newsman job for my roleplay gamemode from scratch. I got my shit together with render targets and stuff, but now I kinda ran into a big problem: sound recording.

How do I get a player to simulate the sound like if he was somewhere else at the same time? Is there an entity I can create like "point_soundlistener" or something?

Thanks in advance.

[mitterdoo]

this sounds like a really difficult task. unless gmod has some function that can do something like this:
[lua]
local recordedsounds={}
local recording=false
local timefromrecord=CurTime()
-- i am not giving you a solution, this is an example of what could be done if the hook really exists
hook.Add("SoundCreate","soundrecorder",function(snd) -- snd could be a CSoundPatch
table.insert(recordedsounds,{sound=snd,time=CurTime()-timefromrecord})
end)
[/lua]
then i don't know what to give you. i don't know if there is a hook that has something to do with a sound being emitted.

[MrManiak]

Thanks for your help mitterdoo. I found a magic entity on the Valve Docs: env_microphone.

Microphone:[url]https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Env_microphone[/url]

Speaker:[url]https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Env_speaker[/url]

This way I can create a speaker system really easily. Problem solved ;)