positionless player.play_sound()

[xaetral]

I have multiple mods that require or will require being able to play sounds to a player directly, without the sound having coordinates.

For example if I make some sort of user interface and use the player.play_sound() method, the sound is not audible if the player moves away from the coordinates it was when the method was called.

This has a lot of use cases: for example equipment like metal detector or a geiger counter, a gta-like radio in vehicles, and many more...

[Xorimuth]

I think you can change https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/pro ... e_modifier on the sound prototype to make it not affected by distance.

[xaetral]

Thank you for the suggestion, sadly the value "must be" in the range [0;1] and 1 is still positioned on the game surface :/

[curiosity]

Possible duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=221&t=64281

[xaetral]

Possible duplicate of viewtopic.php?f=221&t=64281

I don't think so, I've done a post search before doing this one and it seems like this topic is more about making a sound position follow an entity, which is different from my proposal of not having a position at all.

[Donion]

Hello,
Playing the sound as a global when a position is not defined makes sense to me. In fact, it already behaves like that in 2.0, the change happened as a part of some refactoring I was doing. I'll think about it a little more but I think I'll make the change in 1.1.x as well, I don't see a reason why it would need to default to the player's position (audio center, to be precise).

[Stringweasel]

That would be awesome! It's been requested here as well by me 98618

[xaetral]

Hello,
Playing the sound as a global when a position is not defined makes sense to me. In fact, it already behaves like that in 2.0, the change happened as a part of some refactoring I was doing. I'll think about it a little more but I think I'll make the change in 1.1.x as well, I don't see a reason why it would need to default to the player's position (audio center, to be precise).

Thank you very much

[Donion]

Decision was made to leave it as is for 1.1, so stay tuned for 2.0.