Dynamic Footstep Sounds

[torn pagoda]

Hi! I'm wanting to add a system into my game that will change the player's footstep sound based on the conditions they're in- which will basically boil down to whether they're intersecting certain parts. However, while I vaguely know how to detect when the player is in contact with something, I'm not really sure how to change the footstep sound dynamically. This project is essentially my first proper learning experience with Roblox development, so I only really know how to change the default sound with the RbxCharacterSounds script. I need some help figuring out how to have a script on the player dynamically change the step sound.

If it changes anything, the game is single player and every script so far is a local script.

[proud kayak]

you cant use local script for everything

both server and local scripts will not work in certain conditions or for certain tasks

thats one thing

second

just learn how to manipulate the footsteps sound and how to add more and chnage them like play or smthing

the rest is history

[torn pagoda]

i am trying to learn, that's why i'm here. i just wasn't able to figure it out on my own so i came here to get some pointers. saying "just learn" isn't exceptionally... helpful. also, i'm well aware that local and server scripts have different applications, but local scripts have simply been the better choice for everything i've added so far.

[errant bridge]

Is this for when they're inside something? Or walking on something?

[torn pagoda]

inside something, the only things this is really going to interact with are decorations like bushes and shallow water which the player won't be colliding with

hence the intersecting

i've just not been able to figure out how to dynamically change the sound

[errant bridge]

https://youtu.be/VddrkeYhVwk?si=a-lrrTMzQc2f8S7A ?

[torn pagoda]

yeah, i've done that

but i want to write a script that can change the sound dynamically in game, this video just details how to change the footstep sound to one set thing that replaces the default one

like, when the player is walking through a bush i want to be able to have that play a different sound than the usual one

but i'm not sure how to go about it

[errant bridge]

Well if you'd need to add something extra to modify it, maybe a BindableEvent that can modify it so you can change the sound from any other script

[torn pagoda]

well yeah but. how would i refer to it

[median cairn]

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[torn pagoda]

i'm not really parsing how the data is stored here

[errant bridge]

I'm not sure how they do it so you'd need to check and see

If they're just changing the sound variable, or maybe they're grabbing a sound they parent to the character or player when they load

[torn pagoda]

it's not stored as like its own variable

hang on

local SOUND_DATA : { [string]: {[string]: any}} = {
    Climbing = {
        SoundId = "rbxasset://sounds/action_footsteps_plastic.mp3",
        Looped = true,
    },
    Died = {
        SoundId = "rbxassetid://9116384757",
    },
    FreeFalling = {
        SoundId = if FFlagFixFreeFallingSound
            then "rbxasset://sounds/action_falling.ogg"
            else "rbxasset://sounds/action_falling.mp3",
        Looped = true,
    },
    GettingUp = {
        SoundId = "rbxasset://sounds/action_get_up.mp3",
    },
    Jumping = {
        SoundId = "rbxassetid://8723348363",
    },
    Landing = {
        SoundId = "rbxasset://sounds/action_jump_land.mp3",
    },
    Running = {
        SoundId = "rbxassetid://9114382576",
        Looped = true,
        Pitch = 1.85,
    },
    Splash = {
        SoundId = "rbxasset://sounds/impact_water.mp3",
    },
    Swimming = {
        SoundId = "rbxasset://sounds/action_swim.mp3",
        Looped = true,
        Pitch = 1.6,
    },
}

so i want to be changing the SoundId for running here but i don't understand what i'm really. looking at

is this like. an array of arrays? or?

i just really don't understand

[errant bridge]

Okay, so play the game. Look in the character in the explorer. Is the footstep sound in there somewhere

[torn pagoda]

!

it's in the humanoid root part! thanks so much i wouldn't even have thought to look for the actual like. sound objects

beginner problems lol

[errant bridge]

In that script are the IDs so they can load it in to the root part

[torn pagoda]

and so now i should be able to change them in localscripts, right?

[errant bridge]

Yep, just change the ID of the sound whenever you need to

[torn pagoda]

it'd be LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Running.SoundId?

[errant bridge]

Yep

[torn pagoda]

excellent thank you so much

[errant bridge]

This script is best for PlayerCharacterScripts

I'm wrong, use WaitForChild for the sound just in case it hasn't loaded in yet, not just .Running, it'd be :WaitForChild("Running")