Audio Tweaking (dev branch)

[Bucic 1]

As for "what's so special about stereo". It changes a tank coming at you from everywhere to a tank coming at you from the left.

Some breakthrough...

Well, at least it has been clearly articulated that there will be no proper, i.e. positional, audio within this generation. Running around with furry microphones and re-doing samples for the third time isn't going to cut it anymore.

[Variable 322]

Added sound for movement of fixed MG/GMG. Are there reload sounds for them?

List of missing sounds (rolling list):

Infantry

• Rifle and pistol lowering, lifting
  
• Going into boresight view.
  
• Turning on and off rifle flashlight/IR pointer
  
• Turning on GPS
  
• Sounds of turning on and off NVGs - for god's sake, Zeus even has it!
  
• Sound of falling bodies.
  
• Screams when getting hit
  
• No sound during parachuting (wind, parachute fabric)
  

Ammunition

• Sound for falling bombs and artillery shells
  

Armour and Vehicles

• Sounds for tank turret hydraulics (which were there since and OFP and disappeared in Arma 3)
  
• Sounds for switching on and off view modes in weapon sights
  
• Sounds for switching between optics modes and zoom levels in gunner and commander sights
  
• No sound for entering and exiting tanks, vehicles and aircrafts
  
• Sound for knocked down trees
  
• Sound for squashed bushes
  
• Sound for impacting humans
  
• Sound for impacting walls
  
• Sound for impacting rocks
  
• Sound for moving tank tracks and their friction with the ground (there's only the engine sound).
  
• Turning headlights on and off
  
• Splash sound when wheels impact a waterline (it was in OFP)
  
• No impact sound when sitting in a vehicle that is hit. There should be different sounds for different calibers and those should change according to the type of armor the vehicle has, or lack of.
  
• Sound for movement of fixed MG/GMG
  

Multiple missing sounds in the engine: http://pastebin.com/sREL3aFY - thanks kju

List of missing effects (rolling list):

• Sound occlusion [WIP]
  
• Speed of sound simulation for vehicles and aircraft
  

Edited September 16, 2014 by Variable

[DancZer 65]

It is probably a feature request, but it would be very useful during a PVP.

* Rotation speed based footstep/movement sound volume

Currently if you want to be stealth you should be stationary. If you turn around(even when it is extreme slow) the same footstep sound played with the same volume as if you turn fast.

Edit: If you are turning very very slowly the sound is not played at all. This could be a workaround to turn stealthy.

Edited September 16, 2014 by danczer

[tpw 2313]

• Rifle and pistol lowering, lifting

This is working in dev 127167, but only when the unit is standing. Raising/lowering while kneeling is still silent.

[Variable 322]

It is probably a feature request, but it would be very useful during a PVP.

* Rotation speed based footstep/movement sound volume

Currently if you want to be stealth you should be stationary. If you turn around(even when it is extreme slow) the same footstep sound played with the same volume as if you turn fast.

Yeah, there's no sound for turning now, at all, is there?

• Rifle and pistol lowering, lifting
  

This is working in dev 127167, but only when the unit is standing. Raising/lowering while kneeling is still silent.

Good, that's progress. Updating the entry to no sound when kneeling.

List of missing sounds (rolling list):

Infantry

• Rifle and pistol lowering, lifting when kneeling.
  
• Going into boresight view.
  
• Turning on and off rifle flashlight/IR pointer
  
• Turning on GPS
  
• Sounds of turning on and off NVGs - for god's sake, Zeus even has it!
  
• Sound of falling bodies.
  
• Screams when getting hit
  
• No sound during parachuting (wind, parachute fabric)
  
• No sound for turning (volume should grow louder according to turn speed)
  

Ammunition

• Sound for falling bombs and artillery shells
  

Armour and Vehicles

• Sounds for tank turret hydraulics (which were there since and OFP and disappeared in Arma 3)
  
• Sounds for switching on and off view modes in weapon sights
  
• Sounds for switching between optics modes and zoom levels in gunner and commander sights
  
• No sound for entering and exiting tanks, vehicles and aircrafts
  
• Sound for knocked down trees
  
• Sound for squashed bushes
  
• Sound for impacting humans
  
• Sound for impacting walls
  
• Sound for impacting rocks
  
• Sound for moving tank tracks and their friction with the ground (there's only the engine sound).
  
• Turning headlights on and off
  
• Splash sound when wheels impact a waterline (it was in OFP)
  
• No impact sound when sitting in a vehicle that is hit. There should be different sounds for different calibers and those should change according to the type of armor the vehicle has, or lack of.
  
• Sound for movement of fixed MG/GMG
  

Multiple missing sounds in the engine: http://pastebin.com/sREL3aFY - thanks kju

List of missing effects (rolling list):

• Sound occlusion [WIP]
  
• Speed of sound simulation for vehicles and aircraft
  

Edited September 16, 2014 by Variable

[DancZer 65]

It is probably a feature request, but it would be very useful during a PVP.

* Rotation speed based footstep/movement sound volume

Currently if you want to be stealth you should be stationary. If you turn around(even when it is extreme slow) the same footstep sound played with the same volume as if you turn fast.

I tested it again. Yes there is a sound for turning, but only when the weapon is raised. If the weapon is lowered there is no step sounds, because the character is sliding on the ground.

Also if you turning very slowly then there is no sound, because the turn animation is not played correctly.

Btw it would be good to have this feature, but it is not mandatory for the stealth movement.

[Fushko 60]

Hatch opening/closing sound seems to be missing.

Edited September 16, 2014 by FrankHH
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[maddogx 13]

Harch opening/closing sound seems to be missing.

I already reported this (directly) a while ago. :)

[Variable 322]

I already reported this (directly) a while ago. :)

Do you mean sound for turning in and turning out for armored vehicles? If so, added.

List of missing sounds (rolling list):

Infantry

• Rifle and pistol lowering, lifting when kneeling.
  
• Going into boresight view.
  
• Turning on and off rifle flashlight/IR pointer
  
• Turning on GPS
  
• Sounds of turning on and off NVGs - for god's sake, Zeus even has it!
  
• Sound of falling bodies.
  
• Screams when getting hit
  
• No sound during parachuting (wind, parachute fabric)
  
• No sound for turning (volume should grow louder according to turn speed)
  
• Sound for closing and opening metal hatches on guard posts.
  

Ammunition

• Sound for falling bombs and artillery shells
  

Armour and Vehicles

• Sounds for tank turret hydraulics (which were there since and OFP and disappeared in Arma 3)
  
• Sounds for switching on and off view modes in weapon sights
  
• Sounds for switching between optics modes and zoom levels in gunner and commander sights
  
• No sound for entering and exiting tanks, vehicles and aircrafts
  
• Sound for knocked down trees
  
• Sound for squashed bushes
  
• Sound for impacting humans
  
• Sound for impacting walls
  
• Sound for impacting rocks
  
• Sound for moving tank tracks and their friction with the ground (there's only the engine sound).
  
• Turning headlights on and off
  
• Splash sound when wheels impact a waterline (it was in OFP)
  
• No impact sound when sitting in a vehicle that is hit. There should be different sounds for different calibers and those should change according to the type of armor the vehicle has, or lack of.
  
• Sound for movement of fixed MG/GMG
  
• No sound for turning in and out (hatch open/close)
  

Multiple missing sounds in the engine: http://pastebin.com/sREL3aFY - thanks kju

List of missing effects (rolling list):

• Sound occlusion [WIP]
  
• Speed of sound simulation for vehicles and aircraft
  

Edited September 16, 2014 by Variable

[maddogx 13]

Do you mean sound for turning in and turning out for armored vehicles? If so, added.

Oh, no I meant the closeable hatches in the green guard towers. :)

It's been a while since I tested them, but last I checked they had no sound and the animation was stuttery.

Those two issues used to be in one (quite old) ticket on the feedback tracker, so I separated them, cleaned them up and made Dwarden aware of them. He said he would pass them on to the appropriate teams.

[Variable 322]

Oh, no I meant the closeable hatches in the green guard towers. :)

It's been a while since I tested them, but last I checked they had no sound and the animation was stuttery.

Those two issues used to be in one (quite old) ticket on the feedback tracker, so I separated them, cleaned them up and made Dwarden aware of them. He said he would pass them on to the appropriate teams.

Ok, I'll edit the above post. However, is there any sound for turning in and out? I don't remember there is one, and I can't check now.

[maddogx 13]

Ok, I'll edit the above post. However, is there any sound for turning in and out? I don't remember there is one, and I can't check now.

Me neither, but I don't think so. (In ARMA 3 my default assumption is "no, until proven otherwise". ;))

[Variable 322]

Me neither, but I don't think so. (In ARMA 3 my default assumption is "no, until proven otherwise". ;))

hehe that's exactly why I added it to the list already... :)

[Varanon 892]

Ok, I'll edit the above post. However, is there any sound for turning in and out? I don't remember there is one, and I can't check now.

No, there isn't any such sound.

Interesting tidbit, the sound for moving a turret is still "in", the engine hast the capabilities, but the appropriate config entries have an empty default sound and thus are inaudible.

[Sniperwolf572 758]

No, there isn't any such sound.

Interesting tidbit, the sound for moving a turret is still "in", the engine hast the capabilities, but the appropriate config entries have an empty default sound and thus are inaudible.

I don't think they ever removed any sound functionality itself, it just seems like they went with a clean slate for A3 and never got around to recording/configuring all sounds. A buttload of things like that have blank sounds.

[Fushko 60]

Really eager to hear the new sound effects, especially the rain samples when inside a vehicle :D

BTW, just came up with an idea, something that I think it's missing and would add a lot to the atmosphere. 3D insects sounds that come from the actual 3D model of the insects. Imagine the BZZZZZZ of a bee flying past your character's ear!

[neodammerung 8]

Really eager to hear the new sound effects, especially the rain samples when inside a vehicle :D

Did someone manage to hear that ? Tested new dev branch, I don't have any of those new sounds...

[2nd ranger 282]

Classic BIS changelog - new sounds advertised, new sounds don't work. Looking forward to hearing them though. I hope this is the kind of addition we can expect from time to time, to give the soundscape the attention it has been lacking.

Imagine the BZZZZZZ of a bee flying past your character's ear!

I'd have to check but I would have said that was already in. It certainly was in Arma 2, anyway. Maybe it's one of those Arma 3 sound features that was broken and will be fixed later, now that BIS have hired some sound guys.

[maddogx 13]

Classic BIS changelog - new sounds advertised, new sounds don't work. Looking forward to hearing them though.

The sounds don't work for all vehicles, but they're audible around and inside the A/MH-9 and the Orca, at least. Pretty awesome too. :)

Edited September 25, 2014 by MadDogX
added vehicles with audible rain sound

[heruon 1]

BTW, just came up with an idea, something that I think it's missing and would add a lot to the atmosphere. 3D insects sounds that come from the actual 3D model of the insects. Imagine the BZZZZZZ of a bee flying past your character's ear!

As much as I'd love to have that I'd rather they started with adding just that, but for projectiles. Buzzing ricochets perhaps? After sorting out eventual bugs they could apply it to the bugs ;)

[St. Jimmy 272]

The sounds don't work for all vehicles, but they're audible around and inside the A/MH-9 and the Orca, at least. Pretty awesome too. :)

Oh yes they're awesome!

Now if they could add different sound for the rain when you're under a roof/inside a house.

[CaptainObvious 95]

The sounds don't work for all vehicles, but they're audible around and inside the A/MH-9 and the Orca, at least. Pretty awesome too. :)

Yes, very nice touch, A/MH-9's sounds overall are great now, with the wind and squeaking and stuff, can't wait for other vehicles to catch up. :angel:

[maddogx 13]

Yes, very nice touch, A/MH-9's sounds overall are great now, with the wind and squeaking and stuff, can't wait for other vehicles to catch up. :angel:

Yup, it's amazing how much of a difference these kinds of sounds make for immersion. If they can implement all the missing sounds and effects from Variable's list, it might feel like a completely different game. Especially sound occlusion and attenuation would make a big difference in terms of "audio realism".

Speaking of the list, rain sounds on vehicles weren't even on it. :)

[St. Jimmy 272]

But the new system doesn't work very well with multiple objects around you

/Sorry for the Steam voices :D

Ticket http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=20896

[Sterlingarcherz101 15]

The sounds don't work for all vehicles, but they're audible around and inside the A/MH-9 and the Orca, at least. Pretty awesome too. :)

The wind is really impressive makes such a big difference. I do like the other noises but the clinking sounds from inside the orca is too melodic needs to be more random. But overall a good step forward.

noticed while testing rotor durability. the po7 9mm handgun sounds strange. Can someone else check this ,it does not seem natural. Shoot a rifle then shoot the handgun. It's as if someone just turned down the volume.