Changing the chaingun fire sound in Doomsday

[perkristian]

Is there a way to force the chaingun to use a different fire sound than the pistol. It seems to be a fairly easy thing to do in Zdoom, but I use Doomsday and I cannot figure out how to do it.

[Vermil]

Nope. There isn't a way in Dday.

[DaniJ]

Whats the reason for this btw? I'm sure you probably told me at some point and I'm not at my dev machine right now.

[Vermil]

Me?

It's a case of the firing actions for hitscan weapons being hardcoded to use specific sound definitions. In this case, both the Pistol and Chaingun are set to use the same definition.

[DaniJ]

Ah ok. We'll address that at some point.

[perkristian]

Great, I just wanted to change the chaingun fire sound while keeping the original sound on the pistol, it doesn't work for a machine gun.

BTW
Any news on the Doomsday sound system?

[DaniJ]

Doomsday 1.9.0-beta7 is solely about the implementation of unified networking and related features. The audio system work hasn't yet been scheduled but it is likely that it will feature in beta8.