Audio Feedback Thread

It's been a while since I logged in, but I just wanted to say I appreciate the work you've put into the audio. The complaints I've had have been fixed like the tire squeals at low speeds and the terrain tire audio sounds balanced with the car engines now. Audio has always been a very important part of any game and it really helps Beaming become alive and feel authentic.

 

I did test some road surfaces of Template map.

Had Static object which I chose Old Asphalt option for surface type instead of default Asphalt, then I drove around.

Tire squeal did happen much sooner or at least hat was my impression, but also there was not much ramp up, it just screeched at high pitch almost instantly.

Second notion was that when rolling normally there was sound like seldom raindrops hitting roof of the tin shed when driving SBR4 on said surface.

I guess this second one is meant to be imperfections on surface making sounds, but all in all I feel that this old pavement sounds might be rather early WIP.

It is fairly simple to test just export enough large cube to drive on from blender and put on levels/template/art/shapes in your beamng documents folder, then change surface type from F11 editor (material editor has additional info at bottom where to find) and after setting go to groundmodel debug that at least updates new selection.
That is if someone likes to test what sound I try to describe.

Of course next version of the game might have completely different setup, but if this has not been touched, I think it might be a good to have a listen of how it sounds as it was bit of mouth open eyes wide, what am I hearing moment at least for me, definitely not in line with other ground surface sounds.

 

The update definitely improved the sound balance between idle & revving! I think it's really good now. The only issue I still hear is that some vehicles like the D-series and Hopper are too quiet overall compared to others.

 

In ETK models, the interior isn’t isolated enough from outside. It sounds like the windows are always down. In luxury cars like that, all outside noises should be a lot quieter than they are.

Also I notice there’s new turbo noises in the sbr4 and it’s cool

 

Yeah some engines got noticeably quieter, it's almost too quiet. Let those boys scream!

 

What little I have tested, SBR4 TTB seems to have now hugely improved tire squealing, I still need to test properly, but what little I tested at Hiroichi race track, it was now possible to clearly identify that I'm entering to understeer, I'm worsening the understeer or reducing understeer, but turning more or less, I think it is really good audio feedback now.

Haven't tested much other cars, just GM and SBR4 TTB now.

Overall BeamNG is quieter than other games, but that is as BeamNG is following health recommendations unlike some other games.

But to give you an idea, in Winamp with SID plugin, I have chiptune awesomeness playing at 5% volume at the same time I play BeamNG drive at 100% volume and I'm thinking to reducing volume in Winamp as it is bit strong and not on background so much.

It is not a problem though as I can increase overall volume of headset.

Also I like how engines are not so dominant now as with speed increases tire and wind noises generally overpower engine sounds on standard not customized street cars around 150kph from my experience and game seems to be quite good with this.

I really like to point out ridiculous balancing of Project Cars 2, there I'm driving a race car at 200kph and I shift a gear, that metallic gear change sound is stronger than anything else, that game has so bad balancing with the sounds, that I end up deleting gear change sound files from it and it is still quite horrible and way too loud to comply with healthy gaming recommendations, so BeamNG team is already doing hugely better job than one of the 'big' driving games.
In fact, samples, balancing, everything in sounds is better now in BeamNG than in Project Cars 2, now I could say BeamNG is best audio wise of all driving games, but I have to play bit more of this new update, anyway it is really close being there now.



If something, turbos and BOV's might be bit quiet, but that really depends from the car too, anyway, when Doug is driving this Vector, you can hear how loud wooshes and all turbo related noises are and as I'm building car related to this, I found out that I have to max out BOV sound volume to get anywhere close to it, I need to test more now in 0.23.0 about this, but bit less engine volume might help to extract bit more of other sounds volume in this new update:

 

Hi everybody. Genuinely liking the new update for the most part so far, but I have run into a bit of a strange problem: it seems like this update might have actually broken some sound-related mods I had (including a couple of simple ones I'd made just by modifying JBEAM files, mainly using the legacy V6 sound that was used in the LeGran, etc. in place of the stock one in a car, such the V8s for the Moonhawk & Wendover) even though they actually ended up being fine after that last big update back in March(despite initial concerns otherwise admittedly). Has anybody else had this kind of problem? Talked to TDK on the Discord and he doesn't think he did anything that would have broken mods like that, so I thought I'd come here upon his suggestion.

I should note, too, that although the Verify Integrity process did find a total of 16 errors, none of them appeared to be related to my sound problem, and Automation cars & some Repository mods with third-party sounds do still work, so it seems really unlikely that the update itself is the culprit-so maybe some things got renamed or something?

 

I have same problems, right after update. Also similar number of errors after Verify Integrity process.

 

Once again, great job with the update!

Now that tread hums are in the game, right off the bat, the pitch of the tires seemed too low for a loaded T-series.
I went cycling yesterday to record a passing semi truck. Here's the sound i managed to get. The truck was on the heavier end, and passed me at ~60 km/h.

Spoiler: Real truck passing ~60 km/h

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HOtWPKZRhsLuqpuVqu9shVDizQ8IpRy/view?usp=sharing

Spoiler: Beamng truck passing ~60 km/h

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UkS5SAnLEJLUwPt8P-tAmfyREjXp7xyL/view?usp=sharing

Spoiler: Beamng tread sound only ~60 km/h

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11e42vAV3eIIxK8pXCrJJFNg2PB_epmrl/view?usp=sharing

The perceived pitch of the real truck was 2.5 times that of Beamng's

Spoiler: Beamng tread sound sped up by 2.5x

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7mfNygsAKdZr3DD5FaXpJj87qMI81dL/view?usp=sharing

 

I think that T-Series and Bus engines are too loud, when driving in car IRL and there is truck 4-5 vehicles ahead of you and you drive something around 50kph, it's engine sound is not drowning everything else (in audio volume sense) quite as it is in BeamNG, not sure if others hear it same though as these tend to be somewhat subjective aspects too.

Completely another point, some gear whines seem quite excessive, like Bolide, also you can hear sample looping quite heavily. I had FWD turbo diesel with gearbox on it's end of life and 3rd gear I could hear some whining under acceleration, but otherwise road noise drowned pretty much everything and you could hear bit of engine too under steady travel 80kph and 5th gear.
Maybe it has to do with cockpit muffling too, but also this varies quite some between headsets.

Also have to mention tire squeal again, one of mod cars I have made (never released) was next to impossible to drive last summer, but updates to tire behavior and especially to tire squeal in 23 has made it really enjoyable to drive as now there is audible warning of approaching very narrow margin of limits the car has.
For me, this 23 has made huge change how enjoyable driving fast is in the game.

 

Well, at least I know I'm not the only one who's had that exact problem. Hopefully I can get some more info on the main thread, though.

 

i am with problem, don't have engine sounds, textures in the game cars and in brokens mods

 

disable all mods and deep clean cache

 

I cleared cache and it didn't work

 

in the engine sound of the game and mod cars, before it was with sound in version 0.22.3