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necros



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:00 am    Post subject: sound attenuation and calculating max distance Reply with quote

given the attenuation value, can i find out the maximum distance the sound will be heard at (before stock engines will discard it and not bother starting it)?

i looked at the quake source, but honestly, i just got lost... it seems attenuation is limited to a number between 0-64 (0-63?), but that's about all i got. :S

engines like DP have fixed this 'bug', but for other engines, if a sound is started outside the audible range, the engine will just discard it and not bother starting it.
this is fine for things like explosions that are short lived, but sounds that start and loop forever obviously pose a problem.

essentially, i want to 'register' any entities that should be playing a looping sound and then periodically check if the player has entered audible range since the last check, and if so, restart the sound.

the last part is easy, but i'd prefer an accurate way of calculating maximum audible distance instead of trial+error/guesswork.

ps: i know about the svc 29 hack to spawn real ambient sounds, but i require these sounds to be able to be stopped, which cannot be done with svc 29 ambients.
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necros



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:49 pm    Post subject: solved Reply with quote

preach found the solution, if anyone's interested, the post on func about it is here: http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=4&start=9762&end=9762
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a possibility that this value may have been higher in an earlier version of the engine; I recall seeing someone's source once where they had a comment to the effect that it was reduced from 1500, but can't remember where or who.
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