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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Hoot on April 01, 2013, 05:55:05 pm

Title: Louder weapon sounds
Post by: Hoot on April 01, 2013, 05:55:05 pm

just a question, how is it possible to make weapon discharge sounds audible from a longer distance? It would sometimes be nice to hear flak or beam fire from a ship that is farther away (say f.ex. 2000).

Title: Re: Louder weapon sounds
Post by: Shivan Hunter on April 01, 2013, 06:27:19 pm

Do you want this for one sound (for your own project), or all weapon sounds (for FS)? Weapons have indexes into entries in sounds.tbl (e.g. weapon X uses sound definition Y when it fires, and sound definition Z when it hits something). Entries in sounds.tbl specify the distance sounds are audible from.

IIRC, there have been some updates to sounds.tbl, and you'd need to use a different format to modify entries than you use to define new ones. The tbl file also has comments that specify which entries go with which sounds, but some of the weapon names are outdated beta names that were changed for the FS2 release.

Also see http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Sounds.tbl

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Title: Re: Louder weapon sounds
Post by: Hoot on April 04, 2013, 10:33:29 am

For general weapon sounds during normal gaming, no modding.

Title: Re: Louder weapon sounds
Post by: General Battuta on April 04, 2013, 10:35:33 am

You won't be able to alter this without doing some basic modding.