setstepmaterial

The setstepmaterial script command is used to set the step sound material for an entity. The step sound is played at times defined in the (walking) animation except for the player where it is played every 120 world units walked.

The sound sample used is configured in localisation/snd_armor.ini, localisation/snd_step.ini or localisation/snd_weapon.ini in increasing order of priority. Here the step material determines the section and the world material determines the key in that section.

For the player, the step material from the equipped leggings is used if not empty. Otherwise, an empty step material is equivalent to foot_bare and you need to explicitly set something like none that does not have a configured sound to disable it.

To set the sound material for collisions, use setmaterial. To set the sound material for combat strikes, use setarmormaterial and setweaponmaterial.

Usage

setstepmaterial <material>
setstepmaterial none

Context: Any Entity

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
material	string	Material to use for step sounds

Material names

The step material can be any string configured in localisation/snd_armor.ini, localisation/snd_step.ini orlocalisation/snd_weapon.ini, the namespace is shared with armor materials (when an NPC is hit) and weapon materials (when hitting the world, items, props or damaging NPCs).

Arx Fatalis comes with the following step materials in localisation/snd_step.ini:

• foot_large
• foot_bare
• foot_shoe
• foot_metal_plate
• foot_metal_chain
• foot_stealth

World materials

The world material for step sounds is water if the feet are under water. Otherwise it is determined by the first of the following strings found in the ground texture path:

Needle	Ground material
stone	stone
marble	stone
rock	stone
wood	wood
wet	wet
mud	wet
blood	wet
bone	wet
flesh	wet
shit	wet
soil	gravel
gravel	gravel
earth	gravel
dust	gravel
sand	gravel
straw	gravel
metal	metal
iron	metal
glass	metal
rust	metal
ice	ice
fabric	carpet
moss	carpet

If the ground texture path does not contain any of these strings then the earth material is used.