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Hails 7c5c6b2c51 Game audio: retail-measured layers, transient-safe one-shots, 75% default volume
- Pop, flip-catch and landing cues built from the layers retail plays per
  moment (bank, record, level, delay, envelope measured from TU3 traces),
  with hollow/normal landing tables and per-kind chances.
- One-shots start at their final level (no fade-in eating the transient);
  loops still fade in.
- Riding bed from the measured statistics.
- Master volume defaults to 75 % (100 % is unity gain; 25 % was too quiet
  to judge retail parity).
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Hails' additions

Changes made in the Hailey-Ross fork of SK8-ENGINE/skate-3-rust-engine, documented so upstream maintainers have the full context when reviewing a pull request: what broke, why, what changed, how it was verified, and what is still open.

Each document stands alone. File paths are relative to the repository root.

# Change Area Status
1 ISO extraction argument order Setup (Python) Done, verified with a real ISO
2 Windows long paths during setup Setup (Python) Done; UAC path not exercised end to end
3 SDL3 gamepad input Game (Rust), build scripts, vendored sdl3-sys Done, verified in play with an Xbox Elite Series 2
4 Authored map spawns Asset pipeline (Python) Done, all 10 maps confirmed in play
5 Invisible collision volumes Game data loader (Rust) Done, all four affected maps confirmed in play
9 Water Game physics, camera and rendering (Rust), setup, diagnostics Matched to retail footage (RPCS3): shallow water solid, deep water floats, board floats, water camera + vignette, entry splash, canal water look matched, small bodies calmer
10 Sky shader validation test Game tests (Rust) Done; all six shader validation tests pass
11 Game audio Setup (Python, vgmstream), game audio (Rust) Tuned by ear over ~15 play sessions: rolling, pop/landing, board-down, footsteps, foot drag, splash, grab whoosh confirmed; bail impact, metal grinds, landing weight, fountains and some other cues not yet confirmed; regression pass pending

Environment used for verification

  • Windows 11, Intel i7-14700KF, NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER (Vulkan).
  • Rust 1.98.1 (MSVC), Visual Studio 2026 C++ tools, Windows SDK 10.0.26100, LLVM 23.1.2, Python 3.13.15.
  • Skate 3 Xbox 360 disc image (103 files, 6,404,940,920 bytes).
  • Xbox Elite Series 2 controller over Bluetooth LE.

Conventions

  • Upstream behaviour is preserved unless a document says otherwise; where a behaviour changes on purpose (for example, a map's default spawn), the document lists the old and new values.
  • Project choices that are not dictated by retail data are called out as such, so maintainers can overrule them.