moburma80 Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 One thing I've wondered about recently is how the distance that dialogue can be heard at is set. I need some dialogue to be heard across a wide area, but don't see any obvious way to do it other than making the dialogue a radio station. Using a talking activator I can hear the dialogue but only in the usual small NPC talking distance. Then I looked at President Kimball at Hoover dam. his entire speech is just a regular conversation dialogue topic triggered by a sayto (directed at himself). Yet you can hear his dialogue for miles away, it's processed as if it were a playsound. How on earth is this done? There seem to be no special settings or commands called - it just works somehow. Does anyone know how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moburma80 Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 For reference, I worked it out myself. The clue was in President Kimball's files - all his dialogue is recorded in stereo rather than mono. If you record stuff in stereo it doesn't have any of the distance calculations applied to it, and can be heard everywhere. This is a bit botched even in that sequence - Colonel Moore speaks before him but her dialogue is only in mono, so she can't be heard at a distance even though they both presumably speak through the same PA system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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