No splash sound

[vvs-]

There is no splash sound when Lara jumps or falls into water. That's true for all game versions. For some strange reason apparently there is a splash sound in youtube videos of OpenTomb. playsound(33) works flawlessly.

[Lwmte]

Splash sound gets muffled by underwater low-pass effect, when camera goes underwater. Possibly, effect is applied incorrectly in your case. Try to set "use_effects = 0" in config and see if it makes any difference.

[vvs-]

Yes, it does. Thanks!

I presume it's still a bug then?

[Lwmte]

Seems more like OpenAL Soft bug - perhaps, you get wrong lowpass filter behaviour there. I already had problems with it long ago, when OpenAL Soft wrongfully set lowpass filter to ~14 kHz frequency, which resulted in totally muffled sounds. Probably it was fixed in 1.16.0, but we're still using 1.15.1 here.

Do you have some other sound-related bugs, like distant sounds aburptly fading in/out, or missing reverb effects in TR3+? If not, I'll try to modify lowpass a bit, and we'll see what happens.

[vvs-]

I didn't notice any sound problems and reverberation is certainly working fine. I noticed a lag in a splash sound when effects are off.

[Joey79100]

By the way, the sounds never plays when Lara lands in shallow water, even with use_effects = 0.

[Lwmte]

I guess it was hardcoded, as well as animation switch...

P.S.: I can make splash sound global (i. e. without linking to Lara and without environmental FX applied), then it should work in any case. It just may become unrealistic. What I'm waiting for is proper vertical camera smoothing in mlook(0) mode, then problem should be solved automatically, as splash sound will be sent to OpenAL before switching FX.

[vvs-]

That would be awesome. Look for example at the Neptune room in St. Francis' Folly. It's very hard to dive there because of a missing vertical camera alignment. In general it makes camera stuck in a narrow places.

[vvs-]

In TR3+ the splash sound is not always there, e.g. trying to fall back sometimes produce splash but sometimes not.

[vvs-]

In TR3+ produces SYSWARN_AS_NOSAMPLE for some animations.

[Lwmte]

There could be really missing sounds for some animations (like infamous underwater door sound bug), but we should check each animation independently. Can you tell exact animation numbers which produce this warning?

[vvs-]

Actually, any animations while swimming under water.

[Joey79100]

Probably because of the bubbles sound which is absent in TR3. I've noticed that every sound underwater is barely audible now, they were much stronger before. Maybe that's why they can be almost muted?

[vvs-]

TR4 has the same problem.

[Joey79100]

I meant TR3+, sorry for the mistyping.

[vvs-]

Probably because of the bubbles sound which is absent in TR3.

That's right. The missing sample is 37. Played in flip effect 3. Related to #287.