More realistic reverse beeping

[lenncube]

Hey, I've got an Idea for a feature that would make driving even more immersive: If the Vehicle has a reverse beeping sound, the sound should start to play while the vehicle is stopped and the transmission is in backwards gear. In Vanilla, the beeping only starts while actively moving backwards, which always annoyed me so much because it's so unrealistic. Same thing with the reverse lights. They only come on while moving backwards.

[quadural]

Hi, it seems there is already a genuine parameter to manage that :
vehicle.motorized.reverseDriveSound#threshold

default value = 4

You can give it a try with 0 to check if this is working or not ?

[lenncube]

Setting it to 0 makes the beep trigger already at 0 kph, so it will sound even when the vehicle is in forward gear and standing still. One idea would be to check whether the vehicle is in reverse gear and set the value to 0 only in that case, then switch it back to 4 when changing to forward gear. Overall, this is a solid foundation, I’m just missing the Lua skills to turn it into a proper script mod by myself.

[quadural]

ok, I checked the giants lua code, and the problem = "self.movingDirection" can be 0 too (not only 1 or -1)
and so, since the code to get the "isreverseDriving" is :
local isReverseDriving = self:getLastSpeed() > spec.reverseDriveThreshold and self.movingDirection ~= reverserDirection

at still, the self.movingDirection is 0 which is different than 1 => beep triggered.

[quadural]

here is the fix : mr 0.26.05.04

[lenncube]

Dude...you're amazing! This bugged me for so long in this game...thank you for fixing this in such a short period of time.
One thing though. If you could apply the same logic to the reverse lights of every movable vehicle, it would make the reversing logic complete.

[quadural]

Hi,
new reverse light behavior = mr engine 0.26.05.05