techwhipped/rvclient-updates v1.6.5-archived

v1.6.5 (archived)

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v1.6.5 (Current Build) - Patch: Voice chat overlay + headset volume default

• New: on-screen voice overlay (top-center of the screen). It shows who you
  are in voice chat with, right on the HUD - no need to alt-tab or guess:

  • When a player comes into voice range, their name fades in and stays on
    screen for about 15 seconds, then fades out.
  • While a player is actually talking, a microphone icon appears to the
    left of their name and their name brightens. The icon disappears the
    moment they stop talking - it only shows while someone is genuinely
    speaking, not for the constant background "keepalive" audio ODIN sends
    for every connected player.
  • Your own name + a green microphone icon show only while you are holding
    the push-to-talk key (V).
  • When nobody is nearby and you're not talking, the overlay collapses to
    a small "Voice chat connected" line so you still know voice is live.
  • The overlay has no background box - it's just text with a dark outline
    so it stays readable over bright scenery, and it disappears completely
    when there's nothing to show.

• Changed: the overlay only distinguishes players who are STILL CONNECTED.
  A player who left, crashed, or alt-F4'd drops off the list within a
  couple of seconds even if the voice server never sent a "peer left"
  message (which it often doesn't on an ungraceful disconnect). Stale
  names no longer linger.

• Fixed: the overlay showing a player as "Player 1" / "Player 2" / etc
  instead of their real name after you walked away and came back. A
  player's name only arrives once, in the "peer joined" message when they
  connect to the voice room - not when they wander back into voice range
  (proximity is handled on your side; the voice server still considers
  them connected the whole time). The overlay's cleanup was dropping the
  name after ~10 seconds of not hearing from that player, so a re-approach
  had no name left and fell back to a "Player " placeholder. The name
  is no longer dropped on a proximity timeout, so it stays consistent no
  matter how many times you move in and out of range.

• Fixed: "who's talking" indicator staying lit forever after someone
  stopped speaking. The old check trusted the voice decoder's "silent"
  flag, which stays false for the low-level room tone/comfort noise
  between words. The overlay now measures the actual audio level of each
  decoded frame and only counts a peer as "talking" when it clears a real
  speech threshold, so the mic icon clears promptly when they stop.

• Fixed: headset (speaker) volume kept ending up at 0 / silent. Despite
  the v1.6.3 and v1.6.4 guards, the game's dead EOS voice slider could
  still push a 0 through on certain tab transitions and that 0 got saved,
  leaving voice chat inaudible. Two changes close this for good:

  • Headset volume now ALWAYS starts at 50% on every launch. The value
    in RVVoiceConfig.txt (voice_speaker_volume) is no longer read back
    at startup - it only records your last in-session pick.
  • SetSpeakerVolume() now rejects a value of 0 outright (treated as the
    known EOS slider-reset artifact - the slider has no legitimate
    reason to sit at exactly 0), so it can neither mute voice chat nor
    be written to config.
    You can still change headset volume live from Settings > Audio during a
    session; it just resets to 50% next launch instead of risking a silent 0.

• Performance: the voice overlay does no drawing work while nothing is
  animating. It compares what would be drawn each frame against the last
  frame and skips the entire redraw/redraw-to-screen step when they match,
  so running around with nobody talking costs effectively nothing.