Modding Help (animator?).playSound() confounds me

I'm working on a weapon which will use a few different sounds to indicate its state(s), but I can't figure out how the playSound() function works. My questions are as follows:

• Is it only a function within the animator table? If not, are there any more useful places to call it from?
• Where does this function retrieve its sounds from? What format should they be in?

 

answer no 1:
it is also a part of the tech object but it works the same way it works for the animator table

answer no 2:
It pulls off the sound from your .animator file,

if you would want to play a sound you would have to use this:

Code:

Lua:
animator.playSound("soundname");

.Animator File:
{
  "sounds" : {
    "activate" : [ "path to sound file eg: /sfx/tech/tech_blink1.ogg" ]
  }
}

 

Ahh, wonderful! thank you!