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Interesting article. EngineSim is good to know about. Clipping the audio when it is == 0 is also a good insight. I usually do the [sample][sample but backwards] trick to make it 'seamless' but that is only because clipping at 0 didnt occur to me lol.

I'd be interested in knowing you you did the skidding sounds. For my car game I had to search 'electric car drifting' or thereabouts, and grab a portion of the audio from that. Did something similar for engine noise as well. Not ideal as you don't have much control over the output and probably not licenceable in a paid game

sevencrane6 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

I found some cc0 audio on freesound.org (or maybe it was in some giant sound asset pack I bought for $15 years ago) of a car skidding and then crashing into a barrier. I extracted just the skidding part and used the One Simple Trick of turning a somewhat homogeneous sound into a loop with Audacity:

Cut the sound in the middle, into two parts
Move the second part before the first part
Select an area around the border of the first and second part
Effect -> Crossfade Clips
Do the 0 volume treatment to avoid clipping

and that’s it, it was one of the easiest sounds to make. I should update the post with that too

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