feat(audio): Implement 'MoneyTransactionVolume' option to modify the volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events #1353

xezon · 2025-07-23T20:18:42Z

Follow up for [ZH] Fix broken money deposit and withdraw audio and academy income record #1311

This change implements a 'MoneyTransactionVolume' option to control the volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events, via Options.ini.

Generals will begin with MoneyTransactionVolume = 100
Zero Hour will begin with MoneyTransactionVolume = 0

The main purpose of this change is that Zero Hour (and Generals) players will not need to suffer from money audio spam when setting the option value to 0.

Audio spam

MY_EARS.mp4

TODO

Replicate in Generals
Add comments for why default values are chosen

xezon · 2025-07-23T20:19:41Z

Core/GameEngine/Include/Common/AudioSettings.h

Should we perhaps start Generals with default 0 as well?

I would choose a default that fits best with the "best game ever" description, rather then set is a value that mimics the current game experience.

Maybe 0.25?
Or is it considered to be so annoying that we want to have it off by default?

In Data, the volume is set to 0.30. So 0.30 * 0.25 would make it 0.075 - very quiet.

i would say that very quiet is still better than being as noticeable as it currently is for a lot of people. But we could always play about with it, i can get some people to test and see what they think.

I think a problem with this sound is that its limit in data is set to 3. It should have been 1. One sound at a time only. So the spam can be greatly reduced from data side.

xezon

in CCG, is the MONEY tick audio considered to be annoying or fine?

Scotsman

It's never bothered me and I have never heard of anyone mentioning it so probably the latter

xezon · 2025-07-23T20:20:37Z

GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/OptionsMenu.cpp

Is "MoneyTickVolume" an acceptable name or is there a better one?

MoneyChangedVolume?

MoneyDepositVolume?

MoneyChangedVolume?

Based on that name that would imply that the sound should play even when losing money. Like if someone uses a cash hack on you.

Unless it already does and I just never hear it? (I personally typically only notice it when it's rapidly increasing, like when you have a bunch of hackers)

Based on that name that would imply that the sound should play even when losing money. Like if someone uses a cash hack on you.

Unless it already does and I just never hear it? (I personally typically only notice it when it's rapidly increasing, like when you have a bunch of hackers)

it plays on deposit and withdrawal. You just don't tend to hear it on withdrawal since a load of other construction related sounds tend to play, or button press sounds etc.

MoneyChangedVolume works.
MoneyUpdatedVolume too.

Alternatively

MoneyTransferVolume
MoneyTransactionVolume

Renamed to MoneyTransactionVolume

Based on that name that would imply that the sound should play even when losing money. Like if someone uses a cash hack on you.
Unless it already does and I just never hear it? (I personally typically only notice it when it's rapidly increasing, like when you have a bunch of hackers)

it plays on deposit and withdrawal. You just don't tend to hear it on withdrawal since a load of other construction related sounds tend to play, or button press sounds etc.

Well, even after around 20 years of playing this game I learned something new.

xezon · 2025-07-23T20:27:54Z

Generals fails to compile until code is replicated.

Core/GameEngine/Source/Common/Audio/GameAudio.cpp

Core/GameEngine/Include/Common/MiscAudio.h

GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/OptionsMenu.cpp

GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/RTS/Money.cpp

Mauller

looks good to me, i think the complaints are due to it missing on the generals side.

Also did we want to get a wider view on having the sound enabled by default but at a low level?

Skyaero42

Agree

Core/GameEngine/Include/Common/AudioSettings.h

GeneralsMD/Code/GameEngine/Include/Common/UserPreferences.h

…withdraw audio events

xezon · 2025-07-28T16:54:34Z

Tested once more in Generals and Zero Hour. Worked.

Replicated in Generals with conflicts

D:\Projects\TheSuperHackers\GeneralsGameCode>FOR /F "delims=" %b IN ('git merge-base --fork-point main') DO git diff %b  1>changes.patch

D:\Projects\TheSuperHackers\GeneralsGameCode>git diff 0dd58aad54dd36532f77e2e3cab13093bfeb55bf  1>changes.patch

D:\Projects\TheSuperHackers\GeneralsGameCode>git apply -p2 --directory=Generals --reject --whitespace=fix changes.patch
changes.patch:132: trailing whitespace.

changes.patch:144: trailing whitespace.

changes.patch:194: space before tab in indent.
        //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
changes.patch:195: space before tab in indent.
        // slider Gamma
changes.patch:196: space before tab in indent.
        val = GadgetSliderGetPosition(sliderGamma);
Checking patch Generals/GameEngine/Include/Common/AudioSettings.h...
error: Generals/GameEngine/Include/Common/AudioSettings.h: No such file or directory
Checking patch Generals/GameEngine/Source/Common/Audio/GameAudio.cpp...
error: Generals/GameEngine/Source/Common/Audio/GameAudio.cpp: No such file or directory
Checking patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Include/Common/Money.h...
Checking patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Include/Common/UserPreferences.h...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 102 (offset -4 lines).
Checking patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/RTS/Money.cpp...
error: while searching for:
        }
}

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/** CRC */
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

error: patch failed: Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/RTS/Money.cpp:107
Checking patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/OptionsMenu.cpp...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 725 (offset -44 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1208 (offset -60 lines).
Applied patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Include/Common/Money.h cleanly.
Applied patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Include/Common/UserPreferences.h cleanly.
Applying patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/Common/RTS/Money.cpp with 1 reject...
Hunk #1 applied cleanly.
Hunk #2 applied cleanly.
Hunk #3 applied cleanly.
Rejected hunk #4.
Applied patch Generals/Code/GameEngine/Source/GameClient/GUI/GUICallbacks/Menus/OptionsMenu.cpp cleanly.

…volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events (TheSuperHackers#1353) In Options.ini add MoneyTransactionVolume=0 to turn off and MoneyTransactionVolume=100 to turn on

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[ZH] Implement 'MoneyTickVolume' option to control money deposit and …

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Replicate in Generals

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Move comment in AudioSettings.h

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xezon force-pushed the xezon/add-money-tick-audio-config branch from c8ec031 to 4085829 Compare July 28, 2025 16:48

xezon changed the title ~~[GEN][ZH] Implement 'MoneyTransactionVolume' option to control volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events~~ feat(audio): Implement 'MoneyTransactionVolume' option to modify the volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events Jul 28, 2025

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feat(audio): Implement 'MoneyTransactionVolume' option to modify the volume of money deposit and withdraw audio events #1353

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