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# Noise Indicator

The noise indicator shows how far the player can be heard right now. It picks the loudest of:

* **Movement**: sneaking, walking, running and jumping
* **Voice**: the voice range of pma-voice, SaltyChat, mumble-voip or TokoVOIP while talking
* **Weapons**: gunshots and suppressed shots, kept on screen for a moment
* **Vehicles**: engine noise that grows with speed, motorcycles, bicycles, boats, helicopters and planes
* **Horn and crashes**

![Gunshot noise](https://2487709298-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FqcEXX242M9YYHjASblGi%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-70ee60886bc3310473de2640f1bfbe2b58e9c3d5%2Fdaddy-hud-noise.jpg?alt=media)

## Radius

`Config.Noise.Radius` holds the distance in meters for every source. Vehicles go from `vehicle` (idle) to `vehicleMax` (top speed). When the voice script reports its own distance (pma-voice does), that distance is used instead of `whisper`, `voice` and `shout`.

`Config.Noise.Hold` is how long short noises stay on screen in milliseconds (`shoot`, `crash`, `horn`, `jump`).

## Using the noise in other scripts

The radius is useful for zombie, stealth or police scripts:

```lua
local noise = exports['daddy-hud']:GetNoise()
-- noise.radius (meters), noise.source ('run', 'shoot', 'vehicle' ...), noise.active

if noise.radius > #(GetEntityCoords(zombie) - GetEntityCoords(PlayerPedId())) then
    -- the zombie heard the player
end
```

Another script can override the indicator, for example for a radio or a music box:

```lua
exports['daddy-hud']:SetNoise({ radius = 25, source = 'padMusic', label = 'BOOMBOX' }, 5000)
exports['daddy-hud']:SetNoise(nil) -- back to the built-in estimate
```

Set `Config.Noise.Enabled = false` to drive the indicator only through `SetNoise`.


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