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Wednesday Grimm

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Join date: 9 Jan 2003

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08-28-2003 09:56

Right now sound effects are dopplered, they change pitch if you approach or receede from the source at speed.

It would be cool if we could vary the pitch of sounds in other cases, two examples:

Footsteps and collision sounds - these become repetitive and boring really fast, if they varied randomly, it would sound more realistic

Script sound effects - if a script could control the pitch of a sound, it could randomly vary the sound and the various bleeps and bloops and thuds and other atomospheric sounds would be much more interesting and natural.

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Darwin Appleby

I Was Beaten With Satan

Join date: 14 Mar 2003

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08-28-2003 09:58

OH PLEASE PLEASE do this.

When I'm wearing headphones this is what I hate to hear:

clickclickclick
clickclickclick
clickclickclick
clickclickclick
clickclickclick

GRRR

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Darwin Appleby

I Was Beaten With Satan

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08-28-2003 09:59

Oh, I was talking about the typing sound lol

But llSetSoundPitch would be good. Maybe that could help in making musical instraments in SL.

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Nergal Fallingbridge

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Join date: 26 Jun 2003

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08-28-2003 10:13

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Originally posted by Darwin Appleby
Oh, I was talking about the typing sound lol

But llSetSoundPitch would be good. Maybe that could help in making musical instraments in SL.

Oooooh. For years, I've wanted to make a musical kinetic sculpture, but never could because of RL laws of physics (boo) -- and this might actually help make it possible... >

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Huns Valen

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08-28-2003 20:33

I like this. I could make my attachments sound more realistic.

I could also make a .mod player. >:)

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Huns Valen

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10-31-2003 01:05

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Tiger Crossing

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Join date: 18 Aug 2003

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10-31-2003 07:25

I'm for it. It would make it much easier to extend the Marimball physical music instrument in Blue (NE corner).

I have the footstep sounds turned completely off. They ARE just too bloody annoying. Of course, people tend to sneak up on me now...

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Philip Linden

Founder, Linden Lab

Join date: 18 Nov 2002

Posts: 428

11-04-2003 11:42

We already use a filterbank approach to 'bend' a noise source to make the wind sounds you hear today.

Doing this for multiple sources in the environment is a great idea but computationally fairly expensive - but I will enter it into our feature database as something to talk about and analyze.

Good thought.

Wednesday Grimm

Ex Libris

Join date: 9 Jan 2003

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11-04-2003 13:27

From: someone

Originally posted by Philip Linden
Doing this for multiple sources in the environment is a great idea but computationally fairly expensive - but I will enter it into our feature database as something to talk about and analyze.

Thanks for the response Philip, would this be more expensive than the dopplering that's done on sound sources today?

The only reason I can think of is that that can be done on the client side whereas what I'm proposing would be a server event.

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Charlie Omega

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Join date: 2 Dec 2002

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11-04-2003 16:56

OOOh yea, Huns cool .mod player

gotta love the ole Amiga days

I still got 10 to 50 Amigas laying around.

They were great Mod machines.

Speaking of which, it would be nice to be able to play .mod in SL. So then I don't have to convert them to .wav

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Wednesday Grimm Ex Libris Join date: 9 Jan 2003 Posts: 934	08-28-2003 09:56 Right now sound effects are dopplered, they change pitch if you approach or receede from the source at speed. It would be cool if we could vary the pitch of sounds in other cases, two examples: Footsteps and collision sounds - these become repetitive and boring really fast, if they varied randomly, it would sound more realistic Script sound effects - if a script could control the pitch of a sound, it could randomly vary the sound and the various bleeps and bloops and thuds and other atomospheric sounds would be much more interesting and natural. _____________________ Sarcasm meter: *0 \|------------------------\| 10** Rating: Awww Jeeze!
Darwin Appleby I Was Beaten With Satan Join date: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 2,779	08-28-2003 09:58 OH PLEASE PLEASE do this. When I'm wearing headphones this is what I hate to hear: clickclickclick clickclickclick clickclickclick clickclickclick clickclickclick GRRR _____________________ Touche.
Darwin Appleby I Was Beaten With Satan Join date: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 2,779	08-28-2003 09:59 Oh, I was talking about the typing sound lol But llSetSoundPitch would be good. Maybe that could help in making musical instraments in SL. _____________________ Touche.
Nergal Fallingbridge meep. Join date: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 677	08-28-2003 10:13 From: someone Originally posted by Darwin Appleby Oh, I was talking about the typing sound lol But llSetSoundPitch would be good. Maybe that could help in making musical instraments in SL. Oooooh. For years, I've wanted to make a musical kinetic sculpture, but never could because of RL laws of physics (boo) -- and this might actually help make it possible... > _____________________ powered by caffeine since 1998! "In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty." -- Phil Ochs
Huns Valen Don't PM me here. Join date: 3 May 2003 Posts: 2,749	08-28-2003 20:33 I like this. I could make my attachments sound more realistic. I could also make a .mod player. >:) _____________________ [ huns? \|\| words \|\| 1TBS KREW \|\| VHI Aircraft \|\| Whitepaper on Aircraft Physics ] Make yourself and your objects immune to llPushObject().
Huns Valen Don't PM me here. Join date: 3 May 2003 Posts: 2,749	10-31-2003 01:05 (kick) _____________________ [ huns? \|\| words \|\| 1TBS KREW \|\| VHI Aircraft \|\| Whitepaper on Aircraft Physics ] Make yourself and your objects immune to llPushObject().
Tiger Crossing The Prim Maker Join date: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 1,560	10-31-2003 07:25 I'm for it. It would make it much easier to extend the Marimball physical music instrument in Blue (NE corner). I have the footstep sounds turned completely off. They ARE just too bloody annoying. Of course, people tend to sneak up on me now... _____________________ ~ Tiger Crossing ~ (Nonsanity)
Philip Linden Founder, Linden Lab Join date: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 428	11-04-2003 11:42 We already use a filterbank approach to 'bend' a noise source to make the wind sounds you hear today. Doing this for multiple sources in the environment is a great idea but computationally fairly expensive - but I will enter it into our feature database as something to talk about and analyze. Good thought.
Wednesday Grimm Ex Libris Join date: 9 Jan 2003 Posts: 934	11-04-2003 13:27 From: someone Originally posted by Philip Linden Doing this for multiple sources in the environment is a great idea but computationally fairly expensive - but I will enter it into our feature database as something to talk about and analyze. Thanks for the response Philip, would this be more expensive than the dopplering that's done on sound sources today? The only reason I can think of is that that can be done on the client side whereas what I'm proposing would be a server event. _____________________ Sarcasm meter: *0 \|------------------------\| 10** Rating: Awww Jeeze!
Charlie Omega Registered User Join date: 2 Dec 2002 Posts: 755	11-04-2003 16:56 OOOh yea, Huns cool .mod player gotta love the ole Amiga days I still got 10 to 50 Amigas laying around. They were great Mod machines. Speaking of which, it would be nice to be able to play .mod in SL. So then I don't have to convert them to .wav _____________________ From: 5oClock Lach With a game based on acquiring money, sex, and material goods, SL has effectively recreated all the negative aspects of the real world. Mega Prim issues and resolution ideas.... http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/04/second-life-havok4-beta-preview-temporarily-offline/