[openal] distance model questions

[Victorious]

I'm trying to understand how gain is calculated under the inverse distance clamped model.
gain = AL_REFERENCE_DISTANCE / (AL_REFERENCE_DISTANCE + (distance – AL_REFERENCE_DISTANCE)) = al_ref_distance/distance;
Let distance = 2 and reference distance = 1, so gain should be 0.5. However, when I checked the actual gain the source was set to, it was 1. It doesn't seem to be decreasing properly. Yet, I can hear the source getting softer. What could be causing this? Its quite puzzling.

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Subject: Re: [openal] distance model questions

On 05/26/2015 11:40 AM, Victorious wrote:
> let actual distance = 5, max distance = 4 and scale = 2. So source
> should be silent at distance of 6. gain = max(1.0 - (5 - 4)*2, 0.0)
> which evaluates to 0.0; the sound is silenced at a distance of 5, not
> 6.

Right, that should be / instead of *. My bad.

On 05/26/2015 12:35 PM, Victorious wrote:
 > Hm, just thought of this: could the following be better?
 >
 > The inverse rolloff clamped model is used when distance(source,
 > listener) <= threshold% of sound's hearing range. Otherwise, a custom
 > formula or an alternative distance model is used.

That's basically what my latter suggestion does. It uses inverse 
distance up to max_distance, and then becomes linear.

 > I plugged some numbers into the linear models, and it looks like gain
 > doesn't hit 0 when sound is at max_distance (not sure why I thought
 > it did).
 > // with a rolloff factor of 1,
 > gain = (1 - (distance - referenceDistance) / (maxDistance -
 > referenceDistance));
 >
 > Looks like the only way to have 0 gain is if refDistance = distance
 > and/or maxDistance = referenceDistance.

Nope, you're missing the '1 -' part. When distance = maxDistance, you get:

gain = (1 - (distance-refDistance) / (maxDistance-refDistance));
gain = (1 - dist_from_ref / dist_from_ref);
gain = (1 - 1);
gain = 0;
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