Binding footsteps to a player (3daudio)

Scripting Issues
1

I’ve been expirimenting a bit with positional sound. Using the audio3d manager, as described here, I used the following code to mount a footstep sound to my player model:

audio3d = Audio3DManager.Audio3DManager(base.sfxManagerList[0], camera)
        SOUNDPATH = ConfigVariableString("soundpath","").getValue()
        runSound = audio3d.loadSfx(SOUNDPATH + 'run.wav')
        walkSound = audio3d.loadSfx(SOUNDPATH + 'walk.wav')
        audio3d.attachSoundToObject( runSound, self.actor)
        audio3d.attachSoundToObject( walkSound, self.actor)
        self.runInterval = SoundInterval(runSound, volume=1.0, name='play_' + "run")
        self.walkInterval = SoundInterval(walkSound, volume=1.0, name='play_' + "walk")

However, when I actually use it, using the code below, the sound changes in a strange way when I use my chasecam. Instead of being globally the same at every moment, The sounds get louder when I walk in the global direction of where the player spawned and dies out when I walk the other way.

        if ((self.keyMap["forward"]!=0) or  (self.keyMap["backward"]!=0) or (self.keyMap["left"]!=0) or (self.keyMap["right"]!=0)):
            if self.isMoving is False:
                self.actor.loop(self.moveAnim)
                if self.moveAnim == "walk":
                    self.walkInterval.loop()
                    self.runInterval.finish()
                else:
                    self.walkInterval.finish()
                    self.runInterval.loop()
                self.isMoving = True
        else:
            if self.isMoving:
                self.actor.stop()
                self.actor.loop("breathe")
                self.walkInterval.finish()
                self.runInterval.finish()
                self.isMoving = False

It looks a bit like te source of the audio is not connected to the player or something. Am I missing something?

2

ahum cough
I just discovered I missed the ‘right’ stereo channel.
Maybe this code can be of use to someone :slight_smile: It works great :slight_smile:

3

How about posting the complete code so other beginners can learn from your mistake.

4

this is all the code that has anything to do with the 3daudio part. The complete program is not in a state in which i’d like to showcase it at this time. Maybe around januari :slight_smile:

(on a sidenote, we decided to remove the 3d aspect from this part of the game, since it just does not add to realism in this perspective)

5

i want 3d footsteps :frowning: …