Multiple external tank gun sounds

[USRanger]

As it is now, when you are in the different tanks, you hear a different tankgun sound for each kind of tank.  However there is only one external tankgun.wav sound, causing all surrounding tank gun reports to sound the same, be it panzer, T-34, etc.  I would like each tank to have its individual external tank gun sound.  That way you can tell what's out there just by the sound of its gun report.

Would make tank town sound a lot cooler too.

[trotter]

Great idea.

As I stated in a previous thread
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,251964.0.html
the way the game reads our sound files is way too simplistic. I would compare it to something found in a budget rack action flight game. This game leans far more towards simulation than relaxed realism "action flying", so why do we still have sound programming that is more suited towards the action flight genre. With the complexity of gameplay in the MA, we need equivalent complexity of sound...not just for ear candy, but often (as in Ranger's point about the guns) for necessity of strategy.

It's great that HTC allowed us to modify sound files, but all that is moot if the game does not read the files with complexity and depth.

[Newman5]

When you are in a plane, can't you hear the different plane sounds?  I know I can hear some 37mm from other planes.  Shouldn't it work the same way for tanks?  Seems like it could be an easy change.  I like it, though!   

[thndregg]

As it is now, when you are in the different tanks, you hear a different tankgun sound for each kind of tank.  However there is only one external tankgun.wav sound, causing all surrounding tank gun reports to sound the same, be it panzer, T-34, etc.  I would like each tank to have its individual external tank gun sound.  That way you can tell what's out there just by the sound of its gun report.

Would make tank town sound a lot cooler too.

That would be awesome.

[1701E]

Wait, I a slight bit confused here.

So:  If an M8 was on my right, T34 on left, and each were to fire, it would sound different from each one?

If this is what ya mean, then I need to stop being half-asleep when I play.  I have memorized the tanks sounds and hear em different anyways.

But if that is the general idea. I agree, it would be nice!

[Newman5]

The sounds of the engines and tracks are different, but the sound of the main gun firing are the same depending on the type of tank YOU are in.  The game pulls the file from the folder of the vehicle you are in.  I.E. if you are in a t34, the game uses the files located inside the t34 folder located inside the sounds folder.  Therefore, anytime anyone fires there main gun, you will hear the sound of the t34's main gun, even though it may not have been a t34 firing.  Does this clear it up??       Doin my best!   

Of course it also uses some files which are not under any type of vehicle (plane, boat, or GV).  These are usually for general sounds, such as explosions and bullets hitting the ground, etc.

[SectorNine50]

The sound engine needs some revamping all around, it's a bit old-school.

It'd be nice to be able to have internal and external sounds for each a/c and vehicle.  A lot of sound packs come with both internal and external, when you enable the external sound files on the aircraft your not using and one fly's by, it sounds REALLY cool!

[Denholm]

Sure! This feature would help in pulling AH closer to modern-day standards. Although it would still be a large leap.... with a pogo stick.