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DoomRL => Requests For Features => Topic started by: GrimmC on May 16, 2011, 15:47
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Two thoughts. One, currently when you kill a monster, its pain sound and death sound play at the same time. This obscures the death sound and makes any longtime Doom vets think the baddie is still alive. (In Doom, the killing blow did not produce a death sound.) Could it be altered or config'd to be this way for DoomRL?
Two, when multiple sounds play at once, they get amplified. This results in a spike in volume perhaps far above what you've experienced for the past half hour. Personally it makes me worry for my speakers and that I'm gonna wake everyone up. Could this be looked at too?
I know Doom had some sort of cap on the sounds. i.e., the loudest a sound could be is when it was right next to you. Multiple sounds at once in the distance might amplify it a little bit, but never past the maxsound of point blank. That makes it easier to tell how loud the game is going to be, ever.
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Two thoughts. One, currently when you kill a monster, its pain sound and death sound play at the same time. This obscures the death sound and makes any longtime Doom vets think the baddie is still alive. (In Doom, the killing blow did not produce a death sound.) Could it be altered or config'd to be this way for DoomRL?
Check out this post by Kornel (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,3883.msg32276.html#msg32276). It's been brought up multiple times before and has been added to commonly reported bugs (http://forum.chaosforge.org/index.php/topic,160.msg26167.html#msg26167): in short, I wouldn't plan on it getting changed soon.
Two, when multiple sounds play at once, they get amplified. This results in a spike in volume perhaps far above what you've experienced for the past half hour. Personally it makes me worry for my speakers and that I'm gonna wake everyone up. Could this be looked at too?
I THINK reducing or removing the amplification can be addressed. I believe there are some posts relating to this as well, can't seem to find them at the moment.
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I'm...not sure I see the relevance of those two posts. It's not in the frequently reported bugs nor does Kornel's post seem relevant. (Unless I'm going blind.) It's not a matter of animation or timing; it's a matter of whether the pain sound should play in the first place.
i.e., in Doom the killing blow produced no pain sound. Honestly, I've been modding Doom for over a decade and I still don't quite understand how it works...if the pain state is skipped or if it rolls directly into death...but either it should be replicatable.
How about a check to see if the monster's health is negative before playing the pain sound? If it is, no pain sound is played. (I know negative health is stored because gibbing is implemented.)