A few questions about ... sounds, you guessed it :o)

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A few questions about ... sounds, you guessed it :o)

Post by Liliath »

There are a few things I would like to ask, as I tried quite a long time ago now to deal with sounds. First I must say I'm not competent in sound editing, the only soft I used once to change a bit a waterfall sound was Atomix MP3...

So, in a jumble :

- Is there any form of "collision" between sounds in the game ? I'm asking this because I once placed 3 sound activators in the CS in a cave (exterior cell though) , and when walking around the cave in-game, the sounds would work fine until one area in which the sound would stop, though the activator wasn't far away...
I doubt it comes from the game's taking destructive interferences due to the undulatory properties of sound waves into account ... :roll: . My misuse of sounds in the CS would be more plausible...

- Is it possible to have sounds randomly playing in exterior cells ? Cause I found a few bird squawks and rainforest ambiences I would have liked to put in my claim, but if they start each time the PC gets at the precise location the sound activator is at, it wouldn't seem natural. I would like them to play randomly in the forest.

- I heard of a mod that added ambient sounds in taverns, pple laughing, bottle and glass sounds etc.. Would be nice to have such ambient sounds :).

In a more general way, adding ambient sounds truely gives another dimension to the game ("dimension" is the word you used, and it is the right word to me :) ), so your sub forum is really important, I'm glad you decided to take care of this.

Thanks in advance .

Liliath.
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Post by Anonymous »

Liliath, I cant remember exactly ow to do it but try fooling around in the region editor. I think you can it to have a random chance of playing some sound :)
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Post by sirwootalot123 »

I was wondering this too; seeing as that my claim is the most rainforest-like. Nothing I can do now; but it's good to know.
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Post by dragonfly »

Liliath, if you have some sound files you would like to use in your claim, it would be great if you put them up for download so I can have a look at them; then we could make them available for anyone who would like to use them. It would be best if everyone used the same soundsets; it would really blog the game as well as the distributed files if everyone used different sounds for the same purpose. And also, it wouldn't sound right.

I'm adding a thread about naming conventions so please read that one too as it ties into this discussion.
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I saved those sounds on a back up CD, now I gotta find where the CD is... :?
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