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## Problem Players reported having to turn the volume slider down to ~20% before noticing any change in loudness. The sliders fed their linear 0–1 position straight to Howler's `volume()`, which is linear amplitude gain. Human loudness perception is roughly logarithmic, so the top ~80% of the slider all sounds nearly identical — the classic linear-fader problem. ## Fix Square the slider position into a perceptual (audio-taper) gain inside `SoundManager`. The stored setting and the displayed `%` remain the intuitive linear slider position; only the gain handed to Howler is curved. | Slider | Old gain (linear) | New gain (x²) | |--------|-------------------|---------------| | 100% | 1.00 | 1.00 | | 90% | 0.90 | 0.81 | | 80% | 0.80 | 0.64 | | 50% | 0.50 | 0.25 | | 20% | 0.20 | 0.04 | Lowering the slider from 100→80 now produces an audible drop instead of nothing until ~20%. ## Notes - Quadratic (x²) was chosen as a balanced, conservative taper. Cubic (x³) would make the top-end drop-off even more immediate if preferred. - Existing saved settings are unaffected; the same slider position will simply sound slightly quieter, which is the intended correction. ## Tests Updated `SoundManager.test.ts` to assert the curved gain and added a dedicated test locking in the top-of-range behavior. All 18 tests pass. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>