Chest sound is the same as door sound?

[wesp5]

Okay, it seems nobody either reads or cares about the old improvement thread, so here I'll ask again. Am I mistaking or are the sounds of wooden chests opening and closing exactly the same as thsoe of wooden doors? Because I often flinch during missions when I pick a chest to see if a door nearby has opened and a guard is starting to breath down my neck . If this is true, I would suggest to use different sounds there which would make more sense from a realistic point of view as well!

Edited August 21, 2015 by wesp5

[demagogue]

I started to answer this but then my wifi went down. The catch is that a closing chest lid actually -is- a door as far as the system is concerned. There's nothing in existing maps to hook on to for the code to even know what are chest lids and what are doors. At least I think.

[New Horizon]

Not exactly. Sounds are assigned in the sound shader files. So the code may treat a lid as a door but you can assign any sound you want to it.

[SteveL]

Mappers can select a different sound with a spawnarg. We could also change the prefabs to update that spawnarg, though it wouldn't help existing maps.

[Springheel]

I think I did change the prefab sounds the last time this issue was raised, though I can't recall for sure.

[grayman]

There's nothing in existing maps to hook on to for the code to even know what are chest lids and what are doors. At least I think.

 

A hack could be constructed from interrogating a few things about the door at spawn time:

 

1 - If the door rotates about anything other than the z axis ... and

2 - "snd_open" is set to "door_open_01" (or one of the other sounds that makes you think it's an AI opening a door) ... and

3 - One of the door's targets is an "atdm:target_set_frobable"

 

Then we could conclude that the door is a lid and we could set the snd_open spawnarg to a sound shader that's a collection of creaky lid-opening sounds.

 

Since we have a number of chests and small boxes in prefabs, we'd need to account for them all.

 

The prefabs would also change to provide the same results.

[grayman]

I think I did change the prefab sounds the last time this issue was raised, though I can't recall for sure.

 

The current footlocker lid sounds like a door.

[the_deep]

I can't count how many times I've s@#t myself because of that.

[Anderson]

This is going to be changed until 2.04?

It would be really awesome to have different sounds like in Thief.

I see that it was added to the bugtracker: http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4206

Edited October 4, 2015 by Anderson

[grayman]

We're investigating a bugfix-only release for 2.04. I wouldn't get my hopes up that the prefabs will get changed to vary the door opening sounds. I don't think this level of problem warrants the code change suggestion I made above.

 

Look for prefabs to be changed in 2.05.

[Deadlove]

We need a 'pop goes the weasel' sound byte for one of these chests.