Audio is one of the more difficult things to work on because it relies on a third party middleware, is very difficult to debug, and for various reasons is very fragile and difficult to source control, so it's always a slog whenever I adjust anything of checking back to make sure I didn't break everything. That said, there are two audio changes this patch:
- Audio priorities have been changed around a bit to hopefully make the disappearing player engine audio less likely.
- Sliders have been added to settings to raise the number of simultaneous channels that can be heard.
The second change is kind of a hack, but until I find a more permanent and robust solution to the reported audio problems it's the best I can do. Raising the audio channels will make it less likely for sounds to cut out or not play correctly, but there is some CPU cost to this.
There's still a couple remaining issues that are likely caused by the updated floating origin. Once those are fixed, this will be pushed to the main branch.
Changelog
New Features:
- Added real (64 by default) and virtual (256 by default) audio channels to audio settings tab
- Minimum airspeed that can be read by an aircraft is now configurable on a per-aircraft basis
Bugfixes:
- When vehicles fall off the navmesh, they instead report (with error messages) that they did, but also shouldn't call any invalid NavMeshAgents
- Optimized how stores weight is calculated (was an unexpected bottleneck)
- Changes to audio mix to hopefully reduce missing engine sounds
- Afterburner thrust value no longer affects aircraft if no afterburner is available
- AV8B MFD Cruise page minimum speed IAS/TAS now matches the Game HUD minimum speed
- Landing gear can no longer be raised/lower post-ejection
JSON:
- Added "Avionics" property to aircraft with sub-property "MinDisplayedAirspeedMPS"
Known Issue:
- In Arena, taking off, climbing to 30k feet, then ending sortie and respawning, can put the plane under-ground