DOE: Sound and VLC Media Player
I searched and read and searched and I found very little information on how to use DOE: Sound. My players demand sound because it adds so much to the game. Custom sounds are the way to go so you can collect and use the sounds you want to use. So I gave myself a Quest.
I looked for a sound player that would meet my needs. (Free and Custom) Syringscape has a free app, but it is not customizable and does not have all the sounds I want in the free version. The $10.99 a month subscription is not worth it to me so I download VLC Medai Player.
VLC has the ability to accept command line interaction and will play any sound and is FREE. I installed it and added the exe to my system path. This way I do not have to mention the exe when I call the sound file by command line. I also associated the .wav file to have VLC as it’s default app. Inside the preferences for VLC I turned on the command line interactions.
The I gathered my wav files and placed them in a wav folder right off the C: so the “URL” string will be as short as possible.
In the Fantasy Grounds Sound Panel, make sure you check it so it’s turned on, I added the sounds. The URL for a file looks like the line below;
file:///C:/wav/attack.wav
“file:///” makes it a URL, “C:/wav/” is the folder, and “attack.wav” is the sound file.