Environment Sounds

Environmental Sounds

There's a handful of ways to generate sound without an avatar in Second Life.

You can change all of them using scripting. The latter two depend on the viewer being set properly to allow them to play.

If your build has a soundtrack or theme music that you want heard clearly across the parcel, consider using streaming music.

You can play a series of sound clips in order, but there's no guarantee that the "song" will be heard as seamless.

Looping a sound clip can add ambience. Consider it for nighttime bugs by a lake, a crowd murmuring, or the hum of electric signs.

<lsl> default {

   state_entry()
   {
       llLoopSound( llGetInventoryName( INVENTORY_SOUND, 0 ), 0.5 );
   }

} </lsl>

Ocean surf

Short ambient sounds played randomly can make a space feel more alive.

Some good choices for this would be frogs, underbrush rustles and snaps, a distant car horn or squealing brakes.

Owls + bats vs birds

Clocktower bells