Sound vs distance

[Fyron]

Tim_Ward said:
Is there a way to disable the way the volume of the warp transit sound effect increases proportionally to the number of ships you send through?

You can replace the sound file with a null-sound (1 ms of silence, recorded from a null input device). There is a null interface sounds zip posted in the mods section. You can copy one of those over whatever the warp sound is.

[Wenin]

CK, I thought it was odd that when I went into the settings file of the balance mod I found "my" settings already there. Well now I know they were really yours. =)

So yeah adjusting the sound distance doesn't make a difference. I even increased the minimum... but that did nothing as well.

I'll turn off the 3D sound effect then.

[President_Elect_Shang]

If that works let us know, I would like to get better sound at my default zoom range of 2,500.

[Tim_Ward]

Imperator Fyron said:
Tim_Ward said:
Is there a way to disable the way the volume of the warp transit sound effect increases proportionally to the number of ships you send through?

You can replace the sound file with a null-sound (1 ms of silence, recorded from a null input device). There is a null interface sounds zip posted in the mods section. You can copy one of those over whatever the warp sound is.

Thanks. I might just try that.

uh, is Aaron aware of this issue? I wasn't kidding around about someone getting their hearing damaged by moving a fleet through a warp point. I'm rather surprised that I seem to be first person who had raised this. Maybe it's different on other set-ups, but for me the sound is already uncomfortably loud with 15 ships even with the speaker volume low. Anything more than that and I have to turn the speakers off.

Late game, the fleet sizes get *much higher*. Apple recently got sued for a ton of money because one of their I-pods went crazy near another device and messed up some girls hearing. I wouldn't like to see the same thing happen to Malfador.

[Fyron]

It's been raised before. Aaron never did anything about it during the beta... You might try emailing him. The more people that raise the issue, the more likely he is to act on it. se5 at malfador dot com

[Tim_Ward]

I will do that.

[Phoenix-D]

Setting "Is 3d sound" to false definitely helps a lot.

EDIT: ok, a little more info:

Max and Min distance only take effect if a sound is 3D. If you set them to the same value, the sounds play at full volume- but only if you're directly centered on the ships firing.

In stock, ship explosions have a value of 10/200 and they play fine. Everything else uses 40/200 and doesn't. But setting the weapons to 10/200 doesn't help..

[Wenin]

changing the setting to false didn't do anything for me.