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Hey there, I was just trying to implement some EFX presets into my mission update to make it ready for the current feature set. I love the system of EFX / OpenAI. However I tried many of the available presets (room types and room sizes) but almost always the echo is too strong. It seems that big rooms just have a loud echo and a longer delay and small room presets have a loud echo and a shorter delay. However my problem is the echo loudness. Did somebody find out if there presets with a decent echo?

I also read in a thread from Peter Spy that you're able to edit the current presets in a text file. However I'm not sure where to do that. If there's no subtle echo presets, I would be happy if someone could point me into the right direction.

Thank you in advance for any help :)

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I prefer loud echo than no EFX, OpenAL at all.

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1. Check the attached file "EFX Definitionen" it includes presets with default setttings that can be altered directly per definition.

2. The altered defnitions have to be included in your efxs folder (mymapname.efx). This particlar file needs the line "Version 1" at the beginning of the file.  If you leave that out, it will not work.

3. Each preset in your custom file must be allocated with a info location entity in your map, example:

reverb "name of info location" {
"room hf" -400
"decay time" 1.5
"decay hf ratio" 0.75
"reflections" -1000
"reverb" 800
"echo time" 0.12
"hf reference" 5168.6
"lf reference" 139.5
}

 

EFX Definitionen.txt

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49 minutes ago, JackFarmer said:

1. Check the attached file "EFX Definitionen" it includes presets with default setttings that can be altered directly per definition.

2. The altered defnitions have to be included in your efxs folder (mymapname.efx). This particlar file needs the line "Version 1" at the beginning of the file.  If you leave that out, it will not work.

 

 

Just to make sure I can not use version 2 on this?

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14 minutes ago, JackFarmer said:

Can EFX presets of version 2 be customized?

Yes, indeed.

In the worst case you can find always source code for a preset, copy all its attributes to your EFX file, then edit them as you see fit.
But according to wiki article, you can override selected properties by writing them after preset line.

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Hmm.. Thank you guys so far for any input. I ediuted my file in the efxs folder writing the property changes after selecting the preset. I set some pretty high values to hear the change - however nothing changed. This is what I inserted into the file:
eaxreverb "1stfloor"
{
    preset WOODEN_MEDIUMROOM
    LATE_REVERB_GAIN 9.5
    late_reverb_delay 0.950
    REFLECTIONS_GAIN 1.5
}

I can't hear any difference from the preset "wooden_Mediumroom".
Taken from https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4815

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14 hours ago, SeriousToni said:

Hmm.. Thank you guys so far for any input. I ediuted my file in the efxs folder writing the property changes after selecting the preset. I set some pretty high values to hear the change - however nothing changed. This is what I inserted into the file:
eaxreverb "1stfloor"
{
    preset WOODEN_MEDIUMROOM
    LATE_REVERB_GAIN 9.5
    late_reverb_delay 0.950
    REFLECTIONS_GAIN 1.5
}

I can't hear any difference from the preset "wooden_Mediumroom".
Taken from https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4815

Did you try using "GAIN -0.5" ?

The sound system presumes that 1.0 is the max and that values above 1.0 are over amplification ( a tool to compensate for poor recordings with default low volumes ).

 

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On 11/14/2021 at 5:12 AM, SeriousToni said:

eaxreverb "1stfloor"
{
    preset WOODEN_MEDIUMROOM
    LATE_REVERB_GAIN 9.5
    late_reverb_delay 0.950
    REFLECTIONS_GAIN 1.5
}

I can't hear any difference from the preset "wooden_Mediumroom".
Taken from https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=4815

Look here: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Setting_Reverb_Data_of_Rooms_(EAX)

late_reverb_delay must be in range [0, 0.1].
And I think other options are pretty high too.

What if you set these settings to zero?
Do you hear the difference?

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Thank you both for helping out. Indeed you're right as I was experimenting, I picked values that are too high which probably made the EFX getting ignored. It also prints out an error in the console if you type "reloadSounds" in which the values that are wrong are shown.

It didn't come into my head to just set some of them to zero to see if the changes are applied. They are! Good. With the correct min/max values in mind I experimented a bit and found a pretty decent indoors EFX setup like this:

preset WOODEN_MEDIUMROOM
REFLECTIONS_GAIN 0.2
DECAY_TIME 1

Again, thank you for helping out! Finally it works :)

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