Remove enlightened sound

[Baertram]

Hey there,

I just tried to remove this annoying enlightened sound that plays at the startup of the game, if you login.
I can remove it for later calls if you do not logout again.

But the initial playing of the sound cannot be removed as it seems that the call will be done in local functions inside file ingame\centerannounce\centerannouncehandlers.lua:

local function GetEnlightenedGainedAnnouncement()
    local barParams = GetCurrentVeteranPointsBarParams()
    return CSA_EVENT_COMBINED_TEXT, SOUNDS.ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED, GetString(SI_ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED_HEADER), GetString(SI_ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED_DESCRIPTION), nil, nil, nil, barParams
end
 
CSH[EVENT_ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED] = function()
    if IsEnlightenedAvailableForCharacter() then
        return GetEnlightenedGainedAnnouncement()
    end
end
 
local firstActivation = true
CSH[EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED] = function()
    if firstActivation then
        firstActivation = false
 
        if IsEnlightenedAvailableForCharacter() and GetEnlightenedPool() > 0 then
            return GetEnlightenedGainedAnnouncement()
        end
    end
end

Look at the "CSH[EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED] = function()":
At the "first" player activated (which will be the one without any addons I guess, or the very firsta ddon that loads?) the sound will be played by using the local function GetEnlightenedGainedAnnouncement() :-(

As far as I know I cannot priorize my addon to be the first somehow so I can prevent this EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED from being executed?

Any other ideas how to get there to stop this annoying sound from playing? It is really loud even if I turn down the game's sound. All other SFX is ok but this one sux!
And as explained above my addon's player activated or addon loaded will always be AFTER this local call to the sound palying announcement...

Thanks for any good news and help.

[Garkin]

EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED is fired when all addons are already loaded, so disabling this handler is a simple task. I'm already doing it in No, thank you!.

This is the easy way (disable CSA EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED handler):

ZO_PreHook(ZO_CenterScreenAnnounce_GetHandlers(), EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED, function() return true end)

A bit harder way would be just disabling sound and leave message untouched:

local AddMessage_Orig
 
local function AddMessage_Hook(self, eventId, category, soundId, ...)
    if (eventId == EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED and soundId == SOUNDS.ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED) then
        soundId = nil
    end
    AddMessage_Orig(self, eventId, category, soundId, ...)
end
 
AddMessage_Orig = CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE.AddMessage
CENTER_SCREEN_ANNOUNCE.AddMessage = AddMessage_Hook

EDIT:
If you want to disable that sound everywhere, you can also redefine it in SOUNDS table:

SOUNDS.ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED = "No_Sound"

Or you can hook PlaySound function (if hook returns true, original function isn't called):

local function PlaySound_Hook(soundId)
    return soundId == SOUNDS.ENLIGHTENED_STATE_GAINED
end
ZO_PreHook("PlaySound", PlaySound_Hook)

And I think you can find even more ways how to do it.

[Baertram]

I'd like to use the harder way so the experience bar and everything else is still shown.
Thank you for the solution Garkin. I'll try them now.

EDIT:
It works just fine! Thanks for helping me with this disturbing sound.
I had tested the first solution already but with the wrong function as it seems.
I had tried to PreHook the function ZO_CenterScreenAnnounce_GetHandler("EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED") and got some error messages.