Help with: Sound "Height" in the editor.

[Nyrano]

Greetings all,

My current map project is a TD Wars-type game. It is an epic-size map and therefore I changed the "default camera distance" values to a greater number, because otherwise you would only see half of your lane or less due to the standard SC2 camera (which is quite zoomed in imo).

Everything went fine, I worked on my triggers, units and towers, and all of the sudden while testing my map the following occured: "I couldn't hear any sound from the units, towers and even the construction of my towers due to the increased camera distance I have." So it was like playing a tower defense with a lot of towers killing units going on, but the only thing you could hear is the ambient background sound. So that was quite silent.

Now that you have heard my beautiful story-telling, my question is as following:

- Is there any location in the data-editor that you can change so that you DO hear sound at a higher camera distance? And yes, where may that be?

My best regards,
Nyrano

 

[Mindless]

If your goal is to hear the sound, try this:

Instead of moving all of the sound actor's height, change the distance of the camera to normal (default game camera), then use the Trigger Zoom In/Out (well, search for it, it will be something like that). Then your camera position will not be changed but you will still get the effect of seeing things from far away.

 

[ZeroPoints]

i do not know of that but a choice could be that you change the size of all your units and alter terrain so it looks smaller and then just have camera at normal angle. if you don't want to do this make a thread on this site(http://forums.sc2mapster.com/) they are friendly and very active

 

[Nyrano]

My thanks to both of you for the assistance. I ended up lowering the distance paired with a smaller lane. Guess that will do the trick.

So problem solved!