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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...

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.

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

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

curiosity wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:45 pm 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.

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).

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

Donion wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:51 am 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

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