[Mod] Immersive Sounds [.36] [ambience]

[Neuromancer]

fade in for effects - no, but a fade out. but it has to fade out at the moment when it goes out. do you get my idea?

I get what you are saying. When you leave an environment, the sound should get quieter slowly as you walk farther away from that environment. There are only 2 approaches to let a sound effect fade out as you walk into a different environment. The first would be to change the engine code to allow you to adjust the gain while the sound is playing. The second would be to do as was discussed earlier, to always play sounds from a given location so that as you walk away from them they grow quieter, and then set a timer to have them automatically stop after a certain time. The trick would be to check if an environment sound was already playing to not restart it up over and over again if you are crossing between biomes repeatedly in a short span of time. This would involve a significant amount of coding. Unfortunately I'm tackling a different project right now. If someone wants to take a crack at this or even a different approach, they are welcome to.

[Mito551]

oh! great! too bad I'm bad coder( we'll see if someone has enough courage;)

[Inocudom]

A couple of days ago, oOChainLynxOo made a Youtube video dedicated exclusively to this mod. I hope this mod has not been abandoned.

[keyxmakerx]

A couple of days ago, oOChainLynxOo made a Youtube video dedicated exclusively to this mod. I hope this mod has not been abandoned.

As do I, but I am not able to add it to my server. It's too big of a mod... It's a great one though!

[mauvebic]

Well i did serverlite and im no longer dev'ing, neuromancer doesn't come around as often anymore either. That leaves Realbadangel's version, and he's still active :-)

[Neuromancer]

Well i did serverlite and im no longer dev'ing, neuromancer doesn't come around as often anymore either. That leaves Realbadangel's version, and he's still active :-)

I saw the review for this Mod, and I think a few things that could be tweaked:
1) Get rid of the weird sound when starting to fly as it kicks in when just jumping around on the ground and just sounds stupid.
2) Make one of Amethystium's songs louder. I have to check which one is too quiet again.
3) Maybe make the songs fade out a little better.

[Neuromancer]

DONE 1) Get rid of the weird sound when starting to fly as it kicks in when just jumping around on the ground and just sounds stupid.
DONE2) Make one of Amethystium's songs louder. I have to check which one is too quiet again.
Actually quieted down most of them, and made eastern Feeling and Avalon louder. Sounds way better.

[Iqualfragile]

ah, great, that flying sound realy was frking annoying

[onpon4]

This is really nice.

[vktRus]

Stable version + Immersive Sounds mod + moreteers + more more :) fire.



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[Blackthorne]

Weird. I can't download the current version. No matter how many times I try, ompldr is offline.

[Temperest]

Ompldr is going down, possibly permanently, due to lack of funding. Or so I've heard. The authors must re-upload everything to a new host.

[RealBadAngel]

Use github download links or my version.

[Neuromancer]

Use github download links or my version.

I changed the current version link in the main post to use the gitub zipfile link.

[CalumMc]

Does anyone have the ambience-serverlite.zip? Thanks.

[MirceaKitsune]

Great mod! I tried it months ago on a server and it sounded very nice. Got the latest GIT but I think that causes some strange lag to happen. The link for the serverlite version seems to be broken... maybe that will work if there's still a working location? Hope this mod is still being worked on :)

[Mito551]

http://ubuntuone.com/4gnUi7Q4folLAvGaQJr1MI

[MirceaKitsune]

http://ubuntuone.com/4gnUi7Q4folLAvGaQJr1MI

Thanks. That also seems to be way less laggy

[Neuromancer]

http://ubuntuone.com/4gnUi7Q4folLAvGaQJr1MI

Thanks for finding this link! I updated the first post to use this instead of the broken link.

[Bas080]

This mod has improved allot! I remember the first version. I really like the water effects and the music. Although the crow and the other bird are still very noticable. I do find it cool that they sometimes appear to be far or nearby. Your wishlist looks awesome! I look forward to it.

[MirceaKitsune]

I like the mod too. But sadly, I have to disagree with how the sounds are triggered and played at this stage, and the general implementation.

The reason is that sounds are triggered and played directly depending on there the player is located. So for instance, if the player is sitting on grass, some forest animal sounds are randomly played, without an exact source of the sound.

The correct way at the current stage IMO is to have appropriate nodes trigger the sounds spatially and with distance culling. For instance, tree leafs should occasionally play birds singing, while grass can play crickets. Flowing water however should be permanently looped by water nodes, etc.

This isn't an end result I'm hoping to be final either. Once we have an official mob framework and animals, animal sounds can be generated by animal mobs only. Including birds, crickets, bees... which yes, I'm hoping will all become mobs eventually. I seen insects done as normal mobs in Minecraft and it was pretty neat with no performance loss whatsoever.

I love the mod and would like to see it improve, which is why I suggested this. Currently we don't have mobs, but I think nodes should trigger the sounds for starters until we do. The Lua API allows spatial sounds so it should work nicely.

[Bas080]

MirceaKitsune, good point, The animal sounds should be comming from animals and not leaves or grass. It makes me supersticious!

[AndrOn]

I agree with MirceaKitsune, it would be easier to fade out the sounds if they were played from a node. But only some nodes, to avoid having a hundred sources.
And I think it would be great to make the sounds quieter when the player is inside a building or a cave. Like when there is a node between the sound source and the player!
But to make the sounds being played from a given location you have to use mono sounds.

[Bas080]

I agree with MirceaKitsune, it would be easier to fade out the sounds if they were played from a node. But only some nodes, to avoid having a hundred sources.
And I think it would be great to make the sounds quieter when the player is inside a building or a cave. Like when there is a node between the sound source and the player!
But to make the sounds being played from a given location you have to use mono sounds.

+1. Having to much sounds can be avoided by having big repeat times and randomizing the triggering of sounds. Just like abm

[philipbenr]

I can't download the file... :( this is really ticking me off because the mod sounds so good.

[Topywo]

I can't download the file... :( this is really ticking me off because the mod sounds so good.

The links under 'current version' and 'alternate forks' are downloadable (just tried). Perhaps you tried to download a version under 'history' (omploader)?

Edit: In the first post.

[philipbenr]

either that or its my browser. It starts downloading the file then stops.

[philipbenr]

I tried both Iexplorer and Firefox. neither of them get past 5%...

[Topywo]

either that or its my browser. It starts downloading the file then stops.

I can put ambience on dropbox to try out. Which one)s) did you want to download?

[Topywo]

I use chrome under Lubuntu where downloading worked. I just tried firefox under Windows7 and that one also downloaded the complete mod (latest version).

Edit:

If everything went okay, the master:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65428713/MinetestAmbience-master%20(1).zip

and the serverlite:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/65428713/ambience-serverlite%20(1).zip