Polyworks sound area

[Monsteri]

I agree idea that Polyworks have ``sound areas´´. I mean circle, where something sound can heard, if you're standing in it. It could make maps much more ``living´´ For an excample in forest, birds singing, or next to highway, horrible TUUT TUUT Wroom botbotbot..  But i'm not an engineer, if somebody wants to take this further, he can do it.

[chutem]

That is up to the developer of the game, not polyworks, so the chance that it will happen is low.

[Monsteri]

yeah I know that soldat needs too changes, But it still could be fun. But I hope that idea passes.

[scarface09]

This suggestion may happen in the next 300 - 700 years. If so very unlikely.

[vehicledestroyer]

It's a good idea but needs to be worked out more; how exactly is it going to work. Other than that I say it's a great idea! Map .pms files (and the scenery they come with) are incredibly small. Adding a few Map specific sounds wouldn't hurt file/download size. Not much would need to be done in Soldat or Poly Works. Sounds would be map specific and the .pms would look for sound files just like it looks for scenery files. I see it adding polish to Soldat. It being 6 years old and not changing much tech wise, this really bumps it up.

EDIT: It's been submitted before http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=32200.0

[chutem]

If you had been following the (very little) development of soldat over the past years, you would know how unlikely this is going to happen.
Just look at all the other awesome suggestions on this board, and count how many have made it into the game.

[Monsteri]

how unlikely this is going to happen

Don't be so depressing. I know that the probable this happens is very low, but as vehicledestroyer said

this really bumps it up.

, and not much changes to code aren't needed at all. (how many times I have said that    ) And If NsC or MM care this game about at all, they're doing it. or NsC. And of course they could had make true lots of other ideas here.

[chutem]

The problem is that no matter how small a change is needed, enesce doesnt listen to aything we say.

[Monsteri]

You're right, but still..

From: October 20, 2010, 04:49:46 am

how exactly is it going to work

If you mean, how circles are working, this is my visual: In tools bar is circle tool.
It's little same thing like scenery. Yoy choose a place where you want it, and then click your mouse again, and then you can make it bigger, tinier. You can make it oval, full round, like that.

When it's right sized, you click it and choose a sound type what can be heard. Then, when you're in soldat, you go to circle, and then you hear in excample distance war sounds. 

[darDar]

nice idea but it can be abused i guess, like maps could be edited that way that u get informed by sounds where the enemies are ( if player moves on polyogon sound appears)
still good idea

[Monsteri]

Eh, but I mean that only those who are standing in circle, can hear sound. Wouldn't it stupid, if you're in end of some map, and suddenly you hear sound going on from highway, what's in the other side of map?

[Dr.DR4IG]

Eh, but I mean that only those who are standing in circle, can hear sound. Wouldn't it stupid, if you're in end of some map, and suddenly you hear sound going on from highway, what's in the other side of map?

 This sounds like it would require the ambient sound code to be really heavilly coded as a separate module.

 It would make more sense (To me) to re-write the existing code using the in-game music engine. I'm assuming here that like other games that play IT/XM/S3M modules that the 'music' and 'sound' samples are played in a similar fashion. It shouldn't in theory be too hard then to use the existing module 'channel volume slide' and positional info with a object on-map to determine (If player 'hearing' sound is (x) close or far from the emitter to increase or decrease the volume of the played sample.

 Since the module music seems to be trumped by the 'mp3' feature this might not be the best way though. I could even be wrong about how the sound is handled (It might be a separate music/Sound routines ) I'd really have to either peek at the sound code or talk to someone who has. X3