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FPSC Classic Scripts / Faking 3D sound? I have an idea

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washburnrover
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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 19:45
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currently FPSC doesn't have 3d sound (to the best of my knowledge, and I hope it's added in a future update), but what if you have 5 different versions of the external sound (see attached .jpeg diagram, each color of arrow represents a sound file). You could use a script to locate the origin of the sound and use the locate-angle type of commands (can't remember the exact ones right now), as well as their distance ---> sound-strength. Sure, when your turning it would either keep the same sound playing, or be too obvious of a jump to a different position, but there's a few ways to counteract that that i think could be done:
1) make a crap-load more variations of the sound (for a smoother "fade")
2) more coding, maybe do an actual fade between variations of the sound based on the player camera position

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Anigma
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Why not just have an entity make the sound you want? I'm pretty sure the generator entity in the SciFi pack does this, and the humming noise it makes works just fine as a 3d sound. Or am I misunderstanding what you're trying to do?

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washburnrover
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hmmmm, didn't know they added 3d sound, even if just for static objects... I am specifically talking about enemies/characters, that when they shoot guns, it's mono sound (you don't know which direction they are) as well as footsteps (i'm not sure there's any enemy footstep sounds actually).

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maho76
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Posted: 15th Jun 2012 13:51 Edited at: 15th Jun 2012 13:52
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not surroundsound, but stereo. when you get attacked from left, sound is coming from left, when from right, sound comes from the right. also sound=x is fading over distance defined by soundscale=x in levelsetup.ini. only plrsound=x and music(overrride)=x generates the sound "in the head of the player", so center.

the stereo-effect is not that good as sound-handling is a mess in fpsc, but basically its there.

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Marc Steene
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Posted: 16th Jun 2012 18:16
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Technically if you created two sounds, one with only the left sound channel and one with only the right sound channel, you could code the effect yourself. You could calculate the difference between the player and entity X co-ordinates and Y co-ordinates, then use the trig commands to adjust the volume of each of the sounds. It would be much easier if this feature was included in the source though.


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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 01:42
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This post is interesting because if you are a good sound engineer you can do many various sound files for one sound. For example I looked into Fallout3 and for an explosion they have a distant version included. So if the explosion happens to far away from the player it has a very distant sound.

Can take this step further and create sounds for top left, bottom left, top right and bottom right. And these sounds would be called based on player location to the entity generating the sound.

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