[openal] Attenuation Roll-Off problems (too silent)

[Roland Plüss]

The reference distance is set to 1 for all sources since I found no 
definition for how to set it if a physically correct sound is used where 
you know only it's volume. How is the physically correct value 
calculated for use with OpenAL?

Am 20.05.22 um 06:30 schrieb Chris Robinson:
> On Thursday, May 19, 2022 6:54:57 PM PDT Roland Plüss wrote:
>> Figured something similar. But the problem exists also for more sane
>> situation. For example if I put a source where an actor is and he is
>> speaking with volume 1 (normal conversation loudness) then you can go 6
>> meters away and here nothing at all. I can though hear very well
>> somebody speaking across a room. So is the roll-off of 1 not correct?
> A rolloff of 1 is correct. But it's important to set the sound's gain and
> reference distance correctly given the unit scale the game world uses, for the
> sound to attenuate correctly with distance. If you use one game unit to
> represent one meter, and your voice clip is as loud as someone should be at
> 1.5 meters, for example, you would set the source's reference distance to 1.5.
> Then with rolloff set to 1, when the source is 6 units (6 meters) away, the
> gain will be reduced to 0.25, or about -12dB from full volume, which is still
> audible.
>
> If you use a different unit scale, for example one unit being one foot, you
> need to adjust the reference distance as appropriate since a 1.5 reference
> distance would mean the sound would be full volume at 1.5 feet instead of 1.5
> meters.
>
>
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