Sound propagation

Hi all

I'm working on a game that is a bit ambitious to tackle directly, so I broke the project into smaller segments. Sound propagation is one of these pieces.

There isn't much to say about it, I could go into details of how I'm doing this if anyone's interested.

Here's the current progress:

Understanding the video requires some imagination The white floor represents a room and the little spheres represent doors. Also, the blue cube is the player and the red cube is the source of the sound.

There is a lot of work ahead but the bare bones of the system seems to be fully working.

 

Very cool. Inspires me...

 

Thanks

Soon after uploading that video I changed the falloff to exponential and it sounds much, much better. Linear falloff always seem to cut too suddenly.

 

Cool. Are you moving the audio source to the nearest door opening? How do you handle the combined distance attenuation?

 

Not really. That was my first idea but I could see that it would fail in some scenarios involving more doors. I'm actually using 2d sounds and changing the left and right channels according to the direction received from the doors in the listener's room.

For now, it uses two sound sources, one for each channel. Unity doesn't give me access to that yet, but Unity 5 apparently comes with a whole set of tools for audio. That's great new for this little project

 

Yeah. Looking forward to read about the details of the Unity 5 audio.

 

[video=youtube_share;g29Gz-cF9yI]http://youtu.be/g29Gz-cF9yI

Made some improvements. Room transition, better falloff etc. Also, the video doesn't require so much imagination anymore it has walls and all.

I'm wondering, is there any interest in something like this? for selling on the asset store, I mean. I can see shooters making use of this. It would be a nice way to fund my unity pro without unity pro the project won't ever leave the ground unfortunately.

 

Nice work I am planing on making something similar
What equation did you use for frequency amplitude decrements over distance?

 

Cool!
I'm not changing the frequency, but the amplitude decays exponentially with distance. I tried linear but it sounds terrible. But in fact linear has its place too, on more subtle sounds.
If I can help you with anything let me know.