I’m excited to share with you a new project I’ve been working on. I’ve created a game featuring a volumetric audio system that adds depth and immersion to your gameplay. You can check it out here: Game Link.
Feel free to explore and even copy the game if you want to experiment with it yourself. The magic happens in the StarterPack, where you’ll find the main script. It’s a small addition that can make a big difference in the overall atmosphere of your games.
I hope you enjoy playing around with it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Let me know your thoughts and any feedback you might have!
If your game has many sounds, then this version of the script might not be best for optimization. I plan to make a new, improved and optimized version of this volumetric audio system. Stabilizing optimization and realism is my goal in the new version.
If your game is realistic and you want a realistic sound experience then this is the simplest way. In this version of the script, it only checks to see if you’re behind a wall and muffles the sound, and adjusts the sound volume based on how far you are from the sound source.
In the next version though, it will have material “sound wave” absorption so let’s say the part that’s blocking the sound source is fabric, then it will only add a small muffle, but if it’s something like metal then it would be muffled.
As well as in the next version, I’m adding raycast bounce reflections, so it will add reverb based on how many parts each ray hits.
I thought that using the camera would be more appropriate, although if it really should be where the players head/body is then I can change it to that. I have no problem changing it since both ways makes sense to me (camera vs player head).
23:40:21.185 Lord_BradyRocks's Place Number: 1001 auto-recovery file was created - Studio
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The sound was uploaded to my profile so that’s why you can’t hear it, you can replace it with a Roblox free sound if you want, I will instead upload it to the game assets but I don’t think this will actually solve the issue.
