enableEnvironment

Description

Enable/disable environmental effects: ambient life and/or ambient sound.

Note

This command has to be executed after mission start: be sure to use e.g sleep 0.1; for it to take effect.

Influenced sounds among others are:

• bird sounds
• insect sounds
• waves
• wind
• rain
• sounds produced by air conditioners and similar
• Arma 3 v2.06 thunder (an already started sound will not be cut but future ones will be prevented)

Syntax

Syntax 1

enableEnvironment enable

Parameters:

• enable: Boolean - false to disable ambient life and ambient sounds, true to re-enable it

Returns: Nothing

Syntax 2

since arma3 1.68

enableEnvironment [ambientLife, ambientSound, windyCoef]

Parameters:

• ambientLife: Boolean - enable/disable ambient life (bees, rabbits, birds, snakes, fish)
• ambientSound: Boolean - enable/disable ambient sounds (cicadas, owls, etc)
• windyCoef: Number - (Optional, default 1) howling wind at heights, range 0..1 (since arma3 2.12)

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

enableEnvironment false; // identical to enableEnvironment [false, false]

Example 2

enableEnvironment [false, true];
enableEnvironment [false, true, 0.5]; // since Arma 3 v2.12

See also

environmentEnabled · fadeEnvironment · environmentVolume · initAmbientLife · sideAmbientLife · getAllEnvSoundControllers · getEnvSoundController · setSoundEffect · Arma 3: Animals: Ambient System