Donion, Ian

Hello,
Today we will be looking at (and listening to!) many of the sound improvements we have been working on for 2.0.

Working sound accents

The sound an entity makes when it is active is usually a single looping main sound, some entities might have sounds that play when they become active or when they stop working and go idle. In addition there are several properties and modifiers that can be used to control working sounds a little bit more. But there is only so much one can do creatively with a single looping sound when it needs to work in all situations.

The ability to synchronize the sounds of a machine to its animation was very high on the list of requested audio features. What I came up with was the concept of Sound accents. Shorter sounds which get played at a specific frame of a specific animation. Initially I expected a machine would get two or three sound accents to complement its main sound and that woul...