Stuffcmd Sound Fade

[DusterdooSmock]

I've noticed that when playing sounds via stuffcmd, if you turn either to the left or to the right of the direction that you were originally facing, the sound starts to fade..
I was wondering if anyone has come up with a way to prevent this from happening, so that the sound plays at a constant volume no matter how much the player turns?

[Spike]

some engines have a play2 command to fix it, while the qw ones tend to change the behavior of play itself.

[DusterdooSmock]

Thank you. I took a look in the Darkplaces source and found the "play2" command, then edited the "play" command in my engine so that the attenuation was 0 aswell, and it works. I wonder why ID put attenuation on stuffcmd sounds in the first place..

[mh]

You're not supposed to play sounds using stuffcmd, you're supposed to play them using the builtin sound function.

[leileilol]

But LOCAL sounds! Like say, death beep, hit noise or something

[qbism]

Local sounds require an engine with that feature. The old timefrag project had "sv_localsound". Maybe there's a standard extension for local sound by now?

[Spike]

generally you don't want local sounds, but private sounds instead...

[qbism]

"private" would be more accurate than "local" to describe a non-spatialized sound directed to a single entity (player). svc_privatesound
There's also a dp extension IIRC for a point sound that originates from a coordinate rather than an entity.

[DusterdooSmock]