The colour and shape of sound in distance

[Azimech]

Thanks, but that doesn't help. I wish I could write to someone of the development team, it seems this feature is largely unknown in the community, site after site, forum after forum.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Azimech

Thanks, but that doesn't help. I wish I could write to someone of the development team, it seems this feature is largely unknown in the community, site after site, forum after forum.

You might want to be a bit more precise in what you are asking for, your original post is a bit vague

[FoolTrottel]

You sure it was Forgotten Battles that was capable of those sounds?

Could it be it was the Original IL-2 Sturmovik that did this?

[KG26_Alpha]

He must be talking about FB, back then the sound was a lot more amospheric, but the sound engine was changed to stop cheating

[Azimech]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

You might want to be a bit more precise in what you are asking for, your original post is a bit vague

Could you tell me what's unclear about it? I don't think it's vague. Low frequencies travel further through the atmosphere than higher freqs.

Think of a thunderstorm, when it's far away, you only hear Boomboomboom etc. When above your head, you hear KRAK or even TSJAARAKK, sometimes even with a whistle. That's exactly what I'm talking about, the ability of the engine to properly fade higher freqs with distance, only no-one knows the settings, no-one can exactly explain the conf.ini and nobody knows the engine can do it.

[zapatista]

azimech,

you explained your observations clearly, there is no problem there

i suspect you had a good pc sound system initially and could hear the full detail of what the il2 sound engine could produce.

i know some minor changes were made to the sound/audio in il2 as the game evolved, and it is possible this is the difference that you notice now.

for me, when il2 was first released, i had a set of crappy speakers on the pc and a low level sound card, in the last years i have decent speakers and a good soundcard, so if the audio quality in the game reduced due to oleg induced deliberate changes, i might not have noticed it as much

oleg himself always stated that the sound engine in il2 was very good, and allowed for positional location of sound sources, ie you can tell the distance and direction from the sound source, so your observation might well be correct it also accurately represented the decay of sound over distance.

do some forum searches at ubi or simhq about il2 sound (partic posts/replies by oleg on this topic), it will show some of this information in more detail. i also remember not all sound cards could accurately reproduce this more complex sound modeling in il2, and oleg would often blame the players poor sound hardware if they complained about quality of sounds.

if you have the right type of soundcard in your pc, you might need to check its driver settings, or make sure you have the correct drivers installed.

[billswagger]

Originally Posted by Azimech

Could you tell me what's unclear about it? I don't think it's vague. Low frequencies travel further through the atmosphere than higher freqs.

Think of a thunderstorm, when it's far away, you only hear Boomboomboom etc. When above your head, you hear KRAK or even TSJAARAKK, sometimes even with a whistle. That's exactly what I'm talking about, the ability of the engine to properly fade higher freqs with distance, only no-one knows the settings, no-one can exactly explain the conf.ini and nobody knows the engine can do it.

Being a sound guy me self, i know exactly what you are describing but i've only owned the most recent version of Il2. I think there is more depth to the sound engine than what is currently used in game as well as actual device settings on the sound cards that people own. I've seen / heard videos that seem to get more out of the Il2 sounds but I have not been able to find a setting that reproduces the proper sound decay. This tells me that this feature either doesn't exist or requires a sound card that carries the components to get a decay effect in game.

BTW,
anyone know what EAX stands for, and what its intended to do in the game?

Bill