Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-30 Thread Erik Hofman
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 19:36 +0200, ThorstenB wrote: > A minor remaining issue was about documentation. README.xmlsound says > something like "reference-distance is the distance where the sound > volume is halved". According to OpenAL (and testing), this doesn't seem > to be quite right. Instead,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-29 Thread ThorstenB
On 29.03.2012 14:44, Erik Hofman wrote: > That is one of the problems of OpenAL, most (if not all) distance decay > functions never reach 0: > > http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Documentation/OpenAL%201.1% > 20Specification.htm#_Toc199835865 A minor remaining issue was about documentation. R

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-29 Thread Erik Hofman
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 06:39 -0600, syd adams wrote: > > > > I've been on a short vacation for the first time in 10 years and have to > > catch up on everything, but I believe this was solved, wasn't it? > > > > Erik > > Hope you had a good vacation. Yes it was great, thanks. > Its sort of solve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-29 Thread syd adams
> > I've been on a short vacation for the first time in 10 years and have to > catch up on everything, but I believe this was solved, wasn't it? > > Erik Hope you had a good vacation. Its sort of solved ,but I still haven't managed to get some sounds to smoothly fade to 0 , i can still hear them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-29 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 17:29 -0600, syd adams wrote: > Hi guys, > I,ve noticed for awhile that sounds seem to cut off at the > reference-distance rather than max-dist. > Is there a new way to do the sound files that Ive missed or is this a bug ? > It is nice that sounds actually stop now , but I mus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-24 Thread ThorstenB
Am 24.03.2012 15:39, schrieb syd adams: > I thought the volume was > reduced to half at reference-distance That's actually what README.xmlsound still says - but I don't think that's right (it's not halved, but clamped at it's maximum at ref-dist). Maybe the description matched a pre-OpenAL imple

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-24 Thread syd adams
Thanks for the explanation , that helped. I thought the volume was reduced to half at reference-distance , but after more experiments discovered that the volume IS cutting off at max-dist , but the reference distances were excessive , so it turns out to be my misunderstanding and old sound configur

Re: [Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-24 Thread ThorstenB
On 24.03.2012 00:29, syd adams wrote: > I,ve noticed for awhile that sounds seem to cut off at the > reference-distance rather than max-dist. > Is there a new way to do the sound files that Ive missed or is this a bug ? > It is nice that sounds actually stop now , but I must be doing > something wr

[Flightgear-devel] sound questions

2012-03-23 Thread syd adams
Hi guys, I,ve noticed for awhile that sounds seem to cut off at the reference-distance rather than max-dist. Is there a new way to do the sound files that Ive missed or is this a bug ? It is nice that sounds actually stop now , but I must be doing something wrong .I've been attempting to fix all my