[project1dev] Re: Project1 - SVN Update 436
- From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:59:25 -0700
oh and counterstrike uses this. If you ever heard the radios playing in
game in the villas (etc) you'll know what im talkin about (;
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> well check it out, fmod has a way where you can specify where a sound is
> coming from in 3d coordinates, and it manipulates the sound in software to
> make it sound like its coming from that location (well... if you have stereo
> output anyhow haha).
>
> It's actually really cool, its how in games things sound like they are
> coming from your left, or behind you.
>
> i think it would be really cool in our game cause you could hear a music
> box playing off to the left faintly and as you walked towards it, it would
> get louder.
>
> It would be a neat effect and we could maybe even lead people places by
> sound alone
>
> ::shrug:: :P
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Steven <supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Cool yeah. Honestly in terms of surround sound stuff I don't really know
>> too much. So this will be a learning process for me too. XD
>>
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>> Alan Wolfe wrote:
>>
>>> Steve, I leave the design and implementation of the sound and music
>>> system up to you (:
>>> the only caveat is i'd like our game to have 3d positional sound effects
>>> (or at least we can try it out and see how it fits into our game)
>>> And if something seems cool to you, I just suggest profiling before
>>> deciding not to do it because it will be too slow (ie don't hold back until
>>> you profile! :P)
>>> Also if something is really cool but it IS really expensive (CPU or
>>> memory wise) to do, we can always save it for special situations, like we
>>> could have a simpler area graphically to allow for the sound to be more
>>> intricate if it makes sense (ie echoey cave sounds or something).
>>> (:
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Steven <supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx<mailto:
>>> supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well I would start out with a basic play function for level music.
>>> The way FMOD splits it up, is you have different audio function
>>> calls for music you want to stream as you go (like level
>>> background music), and then ones that get loaded directly into
>>> memory in full to play right away or even multiple times (like
>>> sound fx and whatnot). What I could do is write functions to
>>> allow us to control playback a bit closer. We could have volume
>>> oscillate, or have the music cut in and out (like a glitch), weird
>>> effects, and other stuff I have not even thought of. We don't
>>> want to bog down the engine too much with on the fly audio
>>> processing, but maybe some simple stuff would be ok. Most of all,
>>> this will be stuff that the creative team, kent, and alan will
>>> want to consider, because it will directly affect the
>>> psychological flow of the game.
>>>
>>> Also, we could have different playback functions for sound effects
>>> to control different aspects of them, and have them play differently.
>>>
>>> In any case, the first step is just the basic Sound_Play()
>>> function that alan talked about. This is what I will start on.
>>> But once that is done, we can make more complicated ones.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kent Petersen wrote:
>>>
>>> What ideas do you have?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Steven
>>> <supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx
>>>
>>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I might be able to put some work into that this weekend, or
>>> this
>>> week. I'm going to try my best to set aside some time. :)
>>>
>>> I'll want to talk to you guys regarding how you want to
>>> implement
>>> that. We could have different kinds of plays depending on
>>> how you
>>> want the music file to play/interact with the level.. ;)
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
>>> Alan Wolfe wrote:
>>>
>>> we need Steve to make a Music_Play() script function so
>>> we can
>>> start dropping music in levels (:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kent Petersen
>>> <kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>> <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:kentkmp@xxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yay, potential music.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Apache User
>>> <dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:dhapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> User:puggles
>>>
>>> Message: trying various patches with some improv
>>> alan did.
>>> pretty rough draft here so i'll be playing
>>> around with it a
>>> lot more or if aynone else wants to do anything
>>> with it
>>> feel
>>> free. same with any other files i submit. :D
>>>
>>> <Files Changed>
>>> A Audio/Music/Underwater1_01 draft.mp3
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