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Sound effects for SpaceEngine

JRM

Date: Friday, 30.08.2013, 11:55 | Message # 31

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Why? That's not very hard to do.

Things which "not very hard to do" are usually boring because of lack of complexity.

Starship's cockpit sound is very complex or suppose to be very complex: engines, transmissions, radio-transmissions, computers, system sounds, AI... - all the sounds what randomly change/appear/disappear through time and make you feel like you're inside of working dynamic mechanical system, not in ventilation pipe smile

It is also important because of player have no real cockpit and need some sort of "sound illusion" to make game/sim believable.
Of course, these sounds can be recorded mechanically (using fans and vents as well) or synthesized. In case of recording sounds from mechanical things there will be some difficulties - microphone quality, isolation from other sounds, isolation from reverberation... it means to take a good, high quality sound of any objects you'll need studio environment/equipment/recording engineer.

I wouldn't recommend to any game/sim developer to try to imitate sounds of real world/objects, because these sounds are connected to things, creating them (like real starship cockpit) and without visual representation of objects can be just boring. Thus, if you have a real cockpit - you may have a simple sound; if you have only sound and no cockpit - sound should be complex to compensate the absent of real object.

The best way could be combination of both parts - sound which is "real" and "interesting" at the same time.

the_other_roots

Date: Friday, 24.07.2015, 00:26 | Message # 32

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Hello,
my suggestion is to implement alternative sounds on atmospheric planets such as wind (in different intensities), the sound of waves on coastlines or even storms, for example on gas giants like Jupiter instead of music. Of course it would be better if combined with working weathers. So the sound could switch from music to environmental sounds when entering the atmosphere of a planet. Maybe you could set in the options that you can also have music on planets.

sinsforeal

Date: Friday, 24.07.2015, 00:46 | Message # 33

Space Pilot

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That probably would not be too hard for space engineer to implement.

"Man once looked up at the stars and wondered, Now all we do is look at our hands and hesitate"

FastFourierTransform

Date: Friday, 24.07.2015, 09:50 | Message # 34

Pioneer

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my suggestion is to implement alternative sounds on atmospheric planets such as wind

If you are interested, there's a whole thread for that already in this forum. I recomend you to read the entire thread because there are quite amazing ideas over there about wich sounds should be picked and very interesting explanations of how sound behaves in other atmospheres (pressure and temperature can change the pitch of this sounds).
Also we have to consider things as what a sound can make a waterfall or shore in different gravity (speed up for example) or what sound does liquid methane makes when it smashes on rocks (for example). SpaceEngineer has explained that he will implement this sound features sooner or later. He talks about making thunder sounds with a lag beetwen the flash light and the sound depending on your distance to it, ect...

This is the thread: http://en.spaceengine.org/forum/8-108-1

By the way, maybe both threads should be merged.

HarbingerDawn

Date: Friday, 24.07.2015, 10:24 | Message # 35