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Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOVeoXZqiVs&feature=youtu.be |
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Is the issue that they don't make a sound at 'small', or that they should make a quieter sound at 'medium'? Because 'medium' is the setting, and getting 'small' to work isn't going to fix the problem if we're looking for a quieter sound. While changing the default object size to 'small' would give us a quieter sound, that spawnarg is used for other things, i.e. splash sounds and wave size when hitting water. And the ragdoll isn't a small object. |
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This is a repeat of issue 0003394. To fix that one, I needed to add this line to the "medium" and "large" ragdoll sounds: "prop_to_friend" "1" I didn't put them on "small" because ragdolls aren't marked "small". So the question is: Do we want to add this line to the "small" sounds, even though ragdolls won't be marked "small"? With that line included in the propagated sound defs, the patrolling guard in your video will hear the dropped body. |
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"While changing the default object size to 'small' would give us a quieter sound, that spawnarg is used for other things, i.e. splash sounds and wave size when hitting water. And the ragdoll isn't a small object." I wasn't trying to make them quieter, I was trying to make them louder. There aren't many options to choose from. "Medium/soft" is too quiet. "Medium/hard" would make them just as loud as builder guards, which is too loud. So I was going to try "small/hard" which is somewhere in between. Hadn't considered the wave/splash issue...I'll have to check and see if that is a problem. "So the question is: Do we want to add this line to the "small" sounds, even though ragdolls won't be marked "small"?" Is there any reason not to? Simple consistency between movable objects would seem to be a good reason to do so unless there are negative consequences. This wouldn't affect whether AI are alerted by things other AI knock over, would it? |
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Can't you just change the volume on Medium/Soft? |
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But that would change the volume for ALL movable objects that are medium/soft. |
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"This wouldn't affect whether AI are alerted by things other AI knock over, would it?" They would behave the same way large and medium inanimate things knocked over by AI behave. I suspect the listeners won't care. |
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I think the best thing to do is add that spawnarg to all the movable object sounds. Even if we don't use the small/hard combo for AI, there could be ragdoll objects in the future that use it. |
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