Marathon Markup Language Reference

The Marathon Markup Language - Sounds Element: <sounds>

This kind of element specifies various sound features. Its attributes are various formerly-hardcoded sounds here and there; these are made variable for Marathon 1 compatibility:

terminal_logon: Logging-on sound at a terminal
terminal_logoff: Logging-off sound at a terminal
terminal_page: Next-page sound at a terminal
teleport_in: Teleporting in
teleport_out: Teleporting out
got_powerup: Picked up a powerup
got_item: Picked up anything else
crunched: Monster getting crunched
exploding: Juggernaut exploding
breathing: Breathing sound (currently unused)
oxygen_warning: Warning when getting low on oxygen
adjust_volume: Sound made when sound volume gets changed

It has child elements that specify which ambient and random sound assignments to use. These are assignments from their indices to the list of (general) sound definitions, and are specified with child elements <ambient> and <random>. Each of them has these attributes, both mandatory:

index: which one of the ambient or random sound types
sound: which index in the list of sounds (-1 for none)

The ambient sounds are:

Water
Sewage
Lava
Goo
Under Liquids
Wind
Waterfall
Siren
Fan
S'pht Door
S'pht Platform
Heavy S'pht Door
Heavy S'pht Platform
Light Machinery
Heavy Machinery
Transformer
Sparking Transformer
Machine Binder
Machine Bookpress
Machine Puncher
Electric
Alarm
Night Wind
Pfhor Door
Pfhor Platform
Alien Noise 1
Alien Noise 2
Alien Harmonics

The random sounds are:

Water Drip
Surface Explosion
Underground Explosion
Loon
Creak

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