Randomized FootStep Sounds on Floor Material

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#1

Hello, I would like some advice on how I would be able to add in multiple sound IDs for the wood,concrete, etc. floor materials, then have them play at random as a character walks. This way you don’t get the same repetitive loop playing over and over as a character walks. I would really like some help on how I would be able to achieve this. I’ve tried searching google for advice on this and haven’t been able to find anything helpful. Thank you.

#2

This should help you.

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#3

Also you can create a table of sounds then do math.random to pick a random one.

#4

How would I do this? For example in the script you showed. How would I make “Enum.Material.Grass” have multiple IDs? Please forgive me as I haven’t worked with tables on Lua but would really like to learn

#5

Like create a table with Sound IDs in it.

local grassSounds = {"Sound ID", "Sound ID", "Sound ID"}

To get a random sound you can do

local randomSound = grassSounds[math.random(1, #grassSounds)]
#6

I tried it like this, but it didn’t seem to work, and it just ends up playing the first ID of the wood material in a fast loop…

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Character = Player.Character

local DefaultSound = Character.HumanoidRootPart:WaitForChild("Running").SoundId

local WoodTable = {
	[Enum.Material.Wood] = "rbxassetid://4085869219", "rbxassetid://4085869581"
}

local randomSound = WoodTable[math.random(1, #WoodTable)]

local Assets = {"rbxassetid://4085869219","rbxassetid://4085869219"}
game:GetService("ContentProvider"):PreloadAsync(Assets)

Character.Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("FloorMaterial"):Connect(function()
	local FloorMaterial = Character.Humanoid.FloorMaterial
	if WoodTable[FloorMaterial] then
		Character.HumanoidRootPart.Running.SoundId = WoodTable[FloorMaterial]
	else
		Character.HumanoidRootPart.Running.SoundId = DefaultSound
	end
end)
#7

I have never done this before so I can’t really help that much. Try looking up youtube videos on it. I see a few about what you are trying to do.

#8

Also the reason it may play so fast is because the sound is very short.

#9

It’s alright thank you for trying though. And I’ve tried youtube and every video I’ve seen just sticks to one sound ID for their tutorial, rather than multiple.

#10

Try putting the

local randomSound = WoodTable[math.random(1, #WoodTable)]

in the function so every time the function fires it randomizes.

#11

It seems to still play the same sound in a loop rather than alternating randomly between them as I walk unfortunately…

#13

Barely logged in today and just saw this. This actually helped, thank you very much!