FreeBuild's ingame sounds are messed up. When playing any sound, there is a weird sound after it. I can't describe the sound much, but it sounds like from an old 8-bit game console. Also, the sounds won't go quieter when I go away from it.
SpaceNinja wrote:
FreeBuild's ingame sounds are messed up. When playing any sound, there is a weird sound after it. I can't describe the sound much, but it sounds like from an old 8-bit game console. Also, the sounds won't go quieter when I go away from it.
You mean volume isn't proportional to distance from the emitter? 
SpaceNinja wrote:
FreeBuild's ingame sounds are messed up. When playing any sound, there is a weird sound after it. I can't describe the sound much, but it sounds like from an old 8-bit game console. Also, the sounds won't go quieter when I go away from it.
When I transcoded from wav to ogg some things got garbled. Don't worry about it too much, since these are mostly place-holder sounds.
I would presume the datablocks simply haven't been configured to fall off correctly, but honestly I haven't spent much time looking at sound.
elfprince13 wrote:
I would presume the datablocks simply haven't been configured to fall off correctly, but honestly I haven't spent much time looking at sound.
Fair enough, I'm sure you'll get to it. 
The graphics and physics things are more important to me at this point anyway. 
If anybody wants to find some new sounds that would be really cool. Just so long as they are ogg and free (as in beer). I can put some grunt work in finding sounds as well, if nobody wants to help.
CyberPrime wrote:
If anybody wants to find some new sounds that would be really cool. Just so long as they are ogg and free (as in beer). I can put some grunt work in finding sounds as well, if nobody wants to help.
I would think free as in speech would be highly desirable as well, would it not? 
Svenne wrote:
According to Badspot, .ogg files can't be used for sound effects, at least not in Retail.
Good thing that this isn't Retail and that Elfprince and Cyberprime have the power to do anything they want to the engine. 
KermMartian wrote:
Svenne wrote:
According to Badspot, .ogg files can't be used for sound effects, at least not in Retail.
Good thing that this isn't Retail and that Elfprince and Cyberprime have the power to do anything they want to the engine. This.
But why not just use the original wav files? I can't imagine ogg would be much smaller, and wav is just as compatible with the engine.
N wrote:
Or a miscellaneous option to just disable sound effects for the menu all together.
This can be done by simply muting your computer's sounds. And, why would someone want to?
DShiznit wrote:
But why not just use the original wav files? I can't imagine ogg would be much smaller, and wav is just as compatible with the engine.
Actually, ogg is immensely smaller. My core/data/sound is around 4MB. Unfortunately I seem to have deleted my TBM installation, but I seem to remember that it was closer to 20MB.
elfprince13 wrote:
DShiznit wrote:
But why not just use the original wav files? I can't imagine ogg would be much smaller, and wav is just as compatible with the engine.
Actually, ogg is immensely smaller. My core/data/sound is around 4MB. Unfortunately I seem to have deleted my TBM installation, but I seem to remember that it was closer to 20MB.
Code:
r00t@simms4:~/cemetech0/blockland0002/tbm/data$ du -h sound
88K sound/energysword
5.8M sound/brian
168K sound/sigmafighter
620K sound/environment
76K sound/fettblaster
608K sound/gobbles
2.0M sound/pelouze
9.1M sound/da
22M sound
In the era of terrabyte harddrives, a difference between 4 and 20 mb is about the same as the difference between 4 and 20 kb was 5-10 years ago. But if you're trying to save as much space as possible, I guess I can see why you'd prefer to switch to ogg where you can. I'd still leave wav as an option if a good sound isn't available in another format and doesn't convert well.
DShiznit wrote:
In the era of terrabyte harddrives, a difference between 4 and 20 mb is about the same as the difference between 4 and 20 kb was 5-10 years ago. But if you're trying to save as much space as possible, I guess I can see why you'd prefer to switch to ogg where you can. I'd still leave wav as an option if a good sound isn't available in another format and doesn't convert well.
Particularly for a game without installation media and targeted at low-end hardware, it's nice to keep things small. Keep in mind that while some people have tight graphics requirements, others have tight storage requirements
Ogg really isn't going to cut the quality that much in general - part of the problem was just that the wav files themselves were improperly formatted and broke the conversion.
Did you try using Audacity to convert them? There's also Super Video Converter which supports audio-only media formats:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
As an asside, Super is also great at converting animated gifs and other videos into the png frames used for animated decals in TBM.
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
As an asside, Super is also great at converting animated gifs and other videos into the png frames used for animated decals in TBM.
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