Volume

The share of full loudness the sound effect is played at.

Specification

Applies to: Sounds
File: SOUND.INI / SOUND01.INI
Section: [<Sound ID>]
Value: floating point
When omitted: 1.0

The value scales whatever loudness the caller asked for. Nothing narrows the figure as it is stored, and the product is clamped at 1.0; a figure above 1.0 therefore raises the requested loudness rather than lowering it, up to that ceiling. Both paths that play a sample apply it. An ordinary sound effect is scaled by this and by the player’s SoundVolume setting, and falls silent altogether when that setting is at zero; the voice path applies this alone and leaves the rest to the caller.

[SCOLD8]
Priority=75
Volume=0.5

The product is also what Priority is scaled by before the channels are compared, so lowering a sound’s volume also makes it easier to cut off.

See also — Priority, SoundVolume, VoiceVolume