Spring RTS Engine

For some reason, even minimized, the audio from a game dominates. Is it not local to focus anymore?

Correct. Should I assume you would like this to change, as you posted in the bugs forum?

Also, when you change game speed, the playback of individual sounds changes with it.

Yes, these are bugs which should be fixed.

That said, I do really like the advancements made.

That's in the settings file, you can adjust how much or if it does so. Something like that wouldn't happen if it wasn't coded.

neddiedrow wrote:Yes, these are bugs which should be fixed.

Oh fine, ninja me. Why would you think the second one is a bug?



The first one I like. If you want it muted, hit F6. If it goes the other way, you're SOL if you want alternative behavior.
I am aware that it might be a different F button.

If I decide to play at 2 game speed I don't want to listen to faster played audio clips. They're all very short .wav, you gain nothing by speeding them up.

Well, that one is a setting. It's sadly missing from the settings program at this moment, but koshi has been notified. I kind of like the effect, even if I might not leave it on all the time.

It is nice for things like Kernel Panic, but quite terrible for Gundam or S44.

You could use a widget to manage that, yay widgets.

The sounds are still distorted. Not the pitch, but the sound itself. Like its been clipped or something.

Beherith wrote:The sounds are still distorted. Not the pitch, but the sound itself. Like its been clipped or something.

I have the same issue, with a SB X-FI card. Also, imo the sound varies too much with distance. This is not desirable for this type of game, where the action is usually viewed from a large distance.

Its a big improvement either way, but yeah there are a few things that need tweaking.

Combat sounds seem to be 1 issue, everything seems to be focused at the bottom of the screen as being the center, instead of being centered in the middle of the screen for localization.

Its as though any sound occurring during combat is loudest when its happening at the bottom of the screen.

Nice to have positional audio finally though, gj on getting this going Coder guys :D

• Sound mute when minimized

This works for me. Is anyone else having this issue too?

• Pitch when speed changes

This is indeed a feature. If you don't like, you can turn it of by setting "PitchAdjust=0" in the config file or doing "/set PitchAdust 0" ingame (requires restart).

• sounds distorted

This can happen when either the mod has broken sounds, or when lots of action is going on and your setting of MaxSounds is prety low (X-Fi supports up to 128, use them).

I thought spring got set to not interrupt sounds. Not true, or for what other reason would maxsounds being low cause distortion?

Why does PitchAdjust need a restart?

If were on the subject how is the music support for spring now?

lurker wrote:I thought spring got set to not interrupt sounds.

Modders can set that, but it is disabled by default. Why? Because it was like this before...

lurker wrote:Why does PitchAdjust need a restart?

Because there was no callback method for config changes when I made that.

Gota wrote:If were on the subject how is the music support for spring now?

Multithreaded, fully implemented ogg/vorbis support from any spring datadir or inside of any sdz / sd7 archive.

Are these settings not in the registry by default?

Im having the problem with minimized spring producing sounds too..

And i suffer from distortions when too many things going on - i have sb x-fi and limit set to 64..

sounds become cut off or stutter somehow.

REVENGE wrote:Are these settings not in the registry by default?

Spring doesn't use the registry anymore.

There's a config file hidden somewhere in the place where config files should be hidden on Windows. (I don't know the path..)