Here’s a little plugin I made to show the rolloff of every sound instance in your game. This has been made twice or so but they don’t work, so I’ve taken the liberty to make it as simple as possible.
Do let me know what you think and reply with any bugs you encounter.
How Sound Rolloff Works
Minimum sound rolloff distance is the distance at which the sound starts to fade out. Maximum sound rolloff distance is the distance at which the sound becomes extremely quiet due to the volume gradient.
If you leave the maximum sound rolloff distance, you will no longer be able to hear the audio.
If the min/max values are the same, the sound will be the same volume everywhere within the given value (in studs).
Here’s a little graph I put together to demonstrate it visually:
Hello!
I just installed the plugin to find out why my Sounds were having a RollOffMaxDistance issue, but I started noticing a bug immediately after.
I was getting the distance of audio that was parented to a Part, but afterward, an error appeared in the Console with the message, Position is not a valid member of Folder "[Instance's Full Name]". Plus, the source of the error was not the Sound that I selected in the Explorer… Then, the roll-off preview was positioned at the center of the Workspace (0, 0, 0).
It would be great if you could add a settings bar to change the colors and features of the visualizer.
Thank you for making this plugin! The idea is great, and it will be a huge time saver because I usually have to use Parts and resize them myself to visualize the RollOffDistances of Sounds. Unfortunately, so far the plugin only gave the same errors. I hope that this bug can be fixed!
That’s quite odd and I’ll definitely look into it. After all, this is my first plugin so I’m pretty inexperienced in this sector. I do apologise about your inconvenience and I’ll try my best to fix it.
I will certainly have a customisable colour palette for the sphere colours in the near future.
Not everything has to be original. If you look in the video, you can see on the very top left, I actually do have that plugin. However I noticed flaws and inaccuracy so I decided to make it myself. Also I have been interested in making a plugin for some time, so this is more of a passion project than a helpful tool for developers.
