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Alex:
I guess priority could be difficult, but maybe a rough guide so we soundies know which ones to do first, sort of like:

H: High priority, we really need these sounds.
L: low priority, these sounds are needed, but not right now.
C: Conceptual, these are sounds for things not yet certain to be in-game.

I think the idea of sample length is a good one, for example a gun firing could have 10 seconds of reverb after the initial shot, or it could be a simple shot with a very quick fadeout.

So, who should make this table?  I could make it an Excel spreadsheet, but I am not sure exactly what Winterslice and the other art-guys want in the sound department.

Zenerka:
My ten cents about sounds.

All of you, people, have certainly nice ideas about sounds and sound usage in game. There is a one little problem with such new ideas (which, again, are nice): they have to be coded.
That's why neither me nor anyone else can just tell anything like: hey, prepare some sounds for $X-Feature. I cannot tell that because I certainly don't know when and who will code that. And I am sure that everyone would agree that it would be pity to have great sound files and sound input which would not be used in the game for some time.
Let me be clear about that: for sure everyone (including me) wants to have a lot of various sounds in the game. And for sure someone will do code/map support for that. The question is: when. Not talking about priorities.

As a side note, currently I am working on the code support for actors sounds when being killed or hit. We received some sound tracks for that from Destructavator, we already have some alien sounds as well but I just simply didn't have neither time nor the possibility to check that in game - that's why, again, I won't ask for more sounds here now, because I simply don't know what we already have and what can be used and where.

Again, please let get this clear: I am not telling that we don't need sounds - no. I am telling that we (or at least me) are not able to just make a list of needed sounds for now unless one agree that his/her sounds and usage of them in game can be postponed for some time. Most probably our storywriters can tell more what would be needed in the future, but still they are not able to determine when. Maybe they could prepare some kind of "sounds wanted" list, I don't know.

About music, that it is simply thing: the more - the better. Currently:
- we have 28 music tracks we can use in the missions;
- we have 34 missions in the campaign.
Clearly we could gather even more and more mission tracks. Especially that we are going to do more randomly map asseblies (and crashsites missions) in 2.2 if only we will manage to fix the bugs with that.

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