sanderd17 Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I believe if we had formations, and could easily locate a group of fighters to one area, it would then make sense to have one sound for 10 archers firing instead of playing 10 singe arrow shots at one time. But otherwise we lose a lot unless we introduce some complicated method of grouping and locating similar fighters. Of course we need to be very careful not to do anything that takes too long. This code would need to be executed every frame. I have always worked to keep the computation time to a minimum there. Time to get formation fighting working I do agree with you, I prefer unit sounds being played a lot to create a battle sound, rather than playing battle loops. The battle loops must always depend on some software detection system, which will be slow. But with unit sounds, the moment the last arrow is fired is the moment you'll hear the last arrow. One thing I'd like as a start is a frequency system in the sound selection, like in the actor variations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAVS Posted January 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Well, after messing around with a whole bunch of short motifs I've decided to ask - how important it is to use the same melody for all the civs?The instruments and musical styles are very different, and while it is (of course) possible, sometimes it just doesn't sound natural.For instance, the motif I originally thought of sounded great on tin whistles, Spanish guitar, mandolin and even bouzouki, but was completely "lost in translation" to the oud, saz and fretless guitar.That said, I'll keep searching for a motif that works all around.OmriHi Omri, I'm back from a brief holidays.For 'phase reach' sounds, I think the main goal is to make the player feel that the sounds belong to the same action. Maybe is not mandatory the same motif. We could try to generate that feeling with the swell perc and the cheers. If you want, send me the motif in order to assembly the sound and let the team check the output. Matias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAVS Posted January 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Hello All,Sorry for my prolonged absence. I'l be getting back into the programming thing in the new year. Its good to hear all of this oniterest in the sound stuff. I'll try and explain some thing as easily as I can. I'll also be writing up a short description of how the sound stuff works. Some of it is counterintuitive but it explains a lot of why we do things the way we do.Currently the sound system will locate a sound source so when listening in stereo sounds from the righ of the screen come out of tthe right speaker. My issue with the battle intensity sounds is that this would largely eliminate that. and I think it would be bad.I believe if we had formations, and could easily locate a group of fighters to one area, it would then make sense to have one sound for 10 archers firing instead of playing 10 singe arrow shots at one time. But otherwise we lose a lot unless we introduce some complicated method of grouping and locating similar fighters. Of course we need to be very careful not to do anything that takes too long. This code would need to be executed every frame. I have always worked to keep the computation time to a minimum there.Also note that the current code does alter the pitch, volume and frequency for most sounds randomly. This is in addition to the 10 or sos sounds there are for a sword clank. These also get used in a random order and have their volumes and pitches altered randomly. I think it is important to remember this is a game. The sounds should first serve the game, making sure to alert the player of important events, and not serve to confuse them with too many sounds. It would be nice if in addition to that everything sounded like a hollywood movie battle scene, but playability should come first. Please feel free to ask any questions. I'll try to be in IRC more too. Let me know if there is a good time and I can try to be online.Time to get formation fighting working I do agree with you, I prefer unit sounds being played a lot to create a battle sound, rather than playing battle loops. The battle loops must always depend on some software detection system, which will be slow. But with unit sounds, the moment the last arrow is fired is the moment you'll hear the last arrow.One thing I'd like as a start is a frequency system in the sound selection, like in the actor variations.Hi STWF and Sander, thanks for the useful information. So, I will work the 'battle sounds' focused in units. In order to take advantage of the sound system, do you think there will be further limitations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmriLahav Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 OK, found a short motif that works well in all styles!http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Carthage_1.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Carthage_2.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Celtica_1.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Celtica_2.mp3I went with a simple, easy to recognize three note pattern, with harmonies that resolve from minor to major for extra gratification!Here are very basic, hastily recorded examples for Carthage and Celtica, just to illustrate how this mini-melody works in both eastern and western styles.The second phase reach effect is enhanced with a cymbal swell and a larger chord in the string section, and also played an octave higher.At the moment they're a bit bare and small but I figured it'd be best to leave some room for cheering instead of filling them up too much.If you like this general direction I'll record them properly (for all civs) and get the raw files to LAVS for integration.Omri 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 I like them. Only thing is, I think there is too much dead space at the beginning. Should probably start to hear the drum roll immediately when the tech is completed. Good direction though! It would be nice to have tech notifications. And then extend them to have a standard chat notification for regular techs and a "grand" notification for phase techs that is more dramatic than a simple chat notification and hits you over the head with the fact that you have advanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAVS Posted January 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 I like them too. When you get them ready send it please so I can complete the SD.Mythos, we will apply your suggestion to the sounds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmriLahav Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Yea, will def. start the export on the drum roll.LAVS, will get .wav files for all civs sent this week and we'll take it from there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted April 27, 2014 Report Share Posted April 27, 2014 Any possibility of getting this put in soon? Or will we wait for A17? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 OK, found a short motif that works well in all styles!http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Carthage_1.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Carthage_2.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Celtica_1.mp3http://wildfiregames.com/users/omri/SFX/Celtica_2.mp3I went with a simple, easy to recognize three note pattern, with harmonies that resolve from minor to major for extra gratification!Here are very basic, hastily recorded examples for Carthage and Celtica, just to illustrate how this mini-melody works in both eastern and western styles.The second phase reach effect is enhanced with a cymbal swell and a larger chord in the string section, and also played an octave higher.At the moment they're a bit bare and small but I figured it'd be best to leave some room for cheering instead of filling them up too much.If you like this general direction I'll record them properly (for all civs) and get the raw files to LAVS for integration.OmriI like these are very cool to hear. You can hear the difference between celt and carthage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Now I can see this , is missing building place sound like in AoE 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
man3ster Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Hello. I can help with sound design/editing/mixing/mastering. If there is any work in particular that needs attention let me know. -Manny 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 hello this post have some examples what is needed for example phase passing complete.Other thing can you do is play the game and see which sounds needs improved example battle warnings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pureon Posted March 13, 2015 Report Share Posted March 13, 2015 Hello. I can help with sound design/editing/mixing/mastering. If there is any work in particular that needs attention let me know.Hi man3ster. We have quite a few animals in the game that could use new sounds when they're clicked on. Is that something you could look into? Easiest way would be to place all the animals in a new map in Atlas Editor and then play the Map to hear what they sound like.As Lion suggests, feel free to also give feedback on any sounds that are currently in the game. If you can improve something, let us know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 Speaking of sound, I attach edited ship sound from my mod. It chop the current ship sound in half and I use first half for select and last half for command order.ship_select_01.zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 I would like to make some sound-design tasks greatingsLed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Hi man3ster. We have quite a few animals in the game that could use new sounds when they're clicked on. Is that something you could look into? Easiest way would be to place all the animals in a new map in Atlas Editor and then play the Map to hear what they sound like.As Lion suggests, feel free to also give feedback on any sounds that are currently in the game. If you can improve something, let us know I placed all animals in whom and how should I send files wich I think could be fit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderd17 Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 As you see from the (lack of) activity in this thread, we still don't have a sound leader. So Enrique, as art leader, would probably be the best choice. However, you can also just post them for display on the forums for community review. You probably know the requirements, but most sounds should be rather short (a few seconds), and animal sounds are best when there are a number of variations (else the sound becomes boring), however, it's still important to keep them recognisable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Is it possible to use sounds from the internet as a basic? Of course I will consider Copyright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrique Posted March 26, 2015 Report Share Posted March 26, 2015 Is it possible to use sounds from the internet as a basic? Of course I will consider Copyright Hi Led, only CC0 (public domain) or CC-BY-SA 3.0We can't use more restrictive licenses than that last one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 Speaking of sound, I attach edited ship sound from my mod. It chop the current ship sound in half and I use first half for select and last half for command order.bump, should go in official branch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 I've looked on the peacock sound:This sounds should be the basic ;but I'm not shure what I have to edit so I post it here for review Peacock Bird-SoundBible.com-98379922.wavPeacock-SoundBible.com-1698361099.wav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I wish we could give animals some ambient sounds (growls for tigers, cries for peacocks). Game also need ambient sound emmitters very badly, for waves, trees rustling, sand storms, etc. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Now we have new features we need the the follow sound:Must have-Sound when a message is recieved ( chat)-sound when the allied Ai chat with you ( request something or notify an attack) -when you lose a building by capturing-when you lose a CC by capturing-when you capture a building ( can be the same as below)-when you capture a animal -when you capture a unit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) I've looked on the peacock sound:This sounds should be the basic ;but I'm not shure what I have to edit so I post it here for review Is this the same, I'm on iPad I can't reproduce sounds from the forumhttp://soundbible.com/1737-Turkey-Gobble.html Edited April 20, 2015 by Lion.Kanzen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoekeloosNL Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Shame that LAVS is disappeared because the new battle sounds he made where awesome and would gave a mutch better and realistic feel to battles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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