Distance/radius before sound is heard

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:39 pm

Hi. How do I change the radius of the sound emitted, meaning the distance before the listener starts to hear the sound from its position.

I have tried min and max position, but if I change these values, sound can be heard (however very faint) even if I move extremely far away?
I also tried switching to linear attenuation, but when I do that, the sound just stutters.

Could you please give me an example?

niko · Post by **niko** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:25 pm

The Min and Max values are explained here: http://www.devmaster.net/wiki/Attenuation_By_Distance, even the linear attenuation.
Basicly, for the default, logarithmic attenuation, only the min value makes the difference. Let the max value be huge, it is only there to 'clip' sounds for performance. The bigger the min value the bigger is the sound source.

Hope this helps.[/url]

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:58 pm

I tried to change only the min distance, and the sound source became bigger, but not matter how far I went from the sound source, a little sound could always be heard (even though it was very faint). That is what I would like to prevent?

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:02 pm

EDIT: I thought what Niko was saying was backwards. Apparently it is not. FMOD is the same... http://www.fmod.org/docs/HTML/FSOUND_3D ... tance.html

Travis

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:40 pm

Is it me who have done something wrong, or is it a general problem? I have read about it, but I'm not that great in sound theory. Maybe it's suppose to do that?