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Can I have a sound play without reverb underwater?

Post by R4L »

Just as the title asks. I have set up a small cutscene where a series of events happen. Here's the script:
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So, first thing that happens after player loses control, a sound effect is played. The camera is changed to a moving camera in a sector that is a 3D floor made swimmable. I have two Sound Environment things (25 and 26) that I have for turning reverb on and off, just as the REVERB wiki says, and the entire sector is a sound barrier. For some reason, the sound plays with underwater reverb. I want to play the sound normal, and then have the reverb back on for when the floor raises. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Also, I've realized that once the camera moves out of the water, reverb is still present... WTF!

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Re: Can I have a sound play without reverb underwater?

Post by Nevander »

There is an option in the sound settings to disable underwater reverb, although it's a user setting and it disables them globally when underwater. I don't think there is another way to disable them on a per sector basis unfortunately but I may be wrong.
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Re: Can I have a sound play without reverb underwater?

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Well the wiki says you can disable it by creating a Sound Environment thing with the properties 0,0 and making the sector's linedefs have the sound zone barrier property, which is entirely what I did, but alas... :\
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Re: Can I have a sound play without reverb underwater?

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You can make individual sounds play without reverb by playing it on the UI channel, I believe (unless there's a NOREVERB sound flag? internally there is, but I think that's only accessible to the outside by using the UI sound channel, though I could be wrong).

As for why it still sounds like it's underwater despite moving out of it, that seems like a bug. Perhaps the listener state isn't being properly updated with the remote cameras or something. That's dealing with the higher level code I'm not familiar with, unfortunately.
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Re: Can I have a sound play without reverb underwater?

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I'll have to try playing it on the UI channel to see. Thanks for the suggestion!

If that indeed is a bug, I hope the devs can squash it. 8-)

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