Big Rig Engine Sound

[OurJud]

Does anyone know if the engine sounds in this game were recorded from real life or created artifically?

 

Most of the vehicles sound fairy good - the muscle cars especially have that nice throaty grunt - but I ask this because I've always been struck by how awful the big rigs sound. If anything should sound big and throaty it's these, but they have a rather annoying tinny hiss to them, especially when driving using first-person mode.

 

If they did use real engine sounds, it seems odd to me that the big rigs sound so off.

Edited February 11, 2015 by OurJud

[LotionYogurt]

I think the sounds for the big rigs were re-used from GTA IV, and we all know how much like vacuum cleaners GTA IV's cars sounded.

[Johan]

Pretty sure they're not taken from real life, otherwise most of the vehicles in the game (including aircrafts) wouldn't sound so off or very similar to other vehicles in the game.

[RedDagger]

It's likely they used a stock sound, a heavily modified recorded one, or a generated one. Getting a recording to loop and transition at a moment's notice is fairly hard.

 

However, plonking the recorded sound into the game world won't give the same effect as as a real one - the propagation of sounds can't be modelled perfectly in real-time, then the recording equipment may not have picked up the entire range of the sound, then there's the problem of not being able to make sounds as loud as they are in real life, so designers have to compensate for that.

 

But basically, no - it would have to be made suitable for a video game, which requires artificial sound somewhere down the line.

[OurJud]

Mmm, intersting set of answers. Thanks.

 

In that case, they did a pretty poor job for the big rigs, then.