[project1dev] Re: Project1 - SVN Update 436
- From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:53:53 -0700
Good ideas (:
re: the music it's up to eric, but we might not have enough of the world
built yet to know what kind of music we want? i dunno, all the creative
stuff i defer to eric hehe ::shrug::
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Steven <supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In that case, it sounds like we can easily create sounds that emanate
> directly from the object/sprite in question. :)
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> One thing we could do with the background music if you like the effect is
> have the level music come from speakers mounted on the wall in certain
> rooms, so it would seem like the sound gets quieter and louder as you leave
> and enter different rooms. I seem to recall games like half life doing
> stuff like this with voice announcements. It might make the music itself
> more interactive.
> Some of my random ideas:
>
> I think it would be cool if we had musical sound effects to go with
> attacks, so if you use some kind of combo special attack it could have a
> musical effect that plays along with any slashing/chopping/etc. effect.
> Games like Kingdom Hearts have done this, and I always thought it was cool.
> Same thing could be done with jumping, running etc. We could even have the
> music slow down and speed up based on how fast you are moving... or if we
> have a time limit imposed have the music speed up to add drama.
>
> Maybe equipping specific items/weapons/etc. could change the music. Like
> if you put on a "Knight's Hood" it could switch to some hardcore medieval
> music. Overall, I think having music cued to events (not just sound
> effects) would make the game feel more interactive.
>
> Maybe if I get the hang of this stuff, we can put in some weird music
> creation mini-game (since you guys have been talking about mini games so
> much), or even a part of the game where the floor is like a giant keyboard,
> and as you walk it plays the sounds. I think stuff like this really adds to
> a game. ;)
>
> Also as a side note, if you (those in charge XD) would like
> Leonardo/Cosmonet/K-Pax to work on music, let me know so I can tell him. If
> you want him to have email/server access, that can happen too. His English
> is not great, but I can still easily understand and converse with him. But
> I bet our wacky/tech'd out emails would throw him a loop... on the other
> hand he is trying to get better at speaking English. Anyway, no rush but if
> we want him to work on anything let me know so I can tell him, or put him on
> the email list.
>
> XD
>
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> Alan Wolfe wrote:
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>> 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<mailto:
>> supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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>
>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx
>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Also, we could have different playback functions for sound
>> effects
>> to control different aspects of them, and have them play
>> differently.
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>> 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.
>>
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>> Kent Petersen wrote:
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>> What ideas do you have?
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Steven
>> <supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx
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>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx
>> <mailto:supremeshadowkai@xxxxxxx>>>> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Alan Wolfe wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Yay, potential music.
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>> 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
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>> A Audio/Music/Underwater1_01 draft.mp3
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