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By: Авто любитель

Авто любитель — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:55:33 +0000

Непременно лучшая запись на эту тему! Продолжайте в том же духе.

By: Tenshi

Tenshi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:38:28 +0000

My idea is to only play the sounds happening inside the field of view of each of the four players. Sounds from “far away” would be totally blocked out/inexistent.
So if i’m player 1 and i’m in the top left corner of the map, and I start shooting, then the only sound that comes out from the boxes is the sound that I, as player 1, would hear (full volume shooting). Any type of “shooting from the distance” that player 2 (who is far away) would hear in a network game doesn’t exist.

So basically, you always just take the loudest sound of a certain action and play that. Nothing echoed or from far away. That way the game remains alive, no repetitive sounds, no mono, and all players are mighty aware of what is happening.

By: Tinman

Tinman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:49:39 +0000

Don’t worry about playing the sound multiple times. If you’re using any halfway decent sound API (OpenAL with a bit of work, FMOD) it’ll take as many samples as you can throw at it without worry. Simple positional audio is cheap.

By: Makron666

Makron666 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:01:25 +0000

Easy, find the best centre point, and play that. Or just play it 4 times for 4 players, although this will accomodate alot of sound voices, and unless people have a sound card, they only get about 64 in most cases. Also worth noting, most new sound cards have 128.

By: Chutem

Chutem — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:37:55 +0000

OFC this is a job for mono…

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:19:10 +0000

OR u could use and allusion techniqe. Make it so the player closet o the sound hears the object. The sound wouldn’t need to be played over two times.

By: TLD

TLD — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:28:13 +0000

YOULL WANNA GO MONO FOR THIS 😀 its the easiest and the most fair option.

By: m!nus

m!nus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:59:57 +0000

Mix down the 4 players’ sounds

By: niko šveikovsky

niko šveikovsky — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:37:41 +0000

VanBurgler has an excellent idea.

By: Mooseral

Mooseral — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:00:32 +0000

Silver and Tinman have it right.