request: finer control over audio volume
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 6:37 am
Playing RnD late at night with kids' room in earshot -- I found that even 10% volume sounded louder than I wanted it to. I added the numbers 1, 2 and 5 to the list of volumes. I think this accounts nicely for the non-linear behavior of human hearing vs. what the computer generates; while keeping the Setup -> Sound -> xyz Volume menu's appearance pleasing.
With sound and looping at 1% each and overall system-wide volume at 96%, RnD sounds great.
If I set system volume to 33%(*), I have to set RnD volumes to 10% to reach a similar audio experience (feels like 15% would be identical).
So that's a bit weird, but anyway, I like it better with this non-linear tail at the beginning of the volume scale; gives me much more useful control. Whereas I can't see where it would harm anyone.
Even better, I guess, would be actual 1-100-by-1 counters (like the "how many emeralds?" counter in level creator). But I didn't know how to set that up, so my local bodge will do for now...
(*)33% is about where I keep system volume so I can hear FB chat notices without waking the dead.
With sound and looping at 1% each and overall system-wide volume at 96%, RnD sounds great.
If I set system volume to 33%(*), I have to set RnD volumes to 10% to reach a similar audio experience (feels like 15% would be identical).
So that's a bit weird, but anyway, I like it better with this non-linear tail at the beginning of the volume scale; gives me much more useful control. Whereas I can't see where it would harm anyone.
Even better, I guess, would be actual 1-100-by-1 counters (like the "how many emeralds?" counter in level creator). But I didn't know how to set that up, so my local bodge will do for now...
(*)33% is about where I keep system volume so I can hear FB chat notices without waking the dead.