Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics Feb 15

[Sindhi]

No, that's just acne. Tree acne. Or perhaps the heartbreak of psoriasis.

[Lady-Succubus]

I'm sure she still makes for beautiful scenery though. ^.^

[Sindhi]

Hey, do any of you guys know how to add sounds to a mod? I know you can buy sounds, but, uh, we're cheap. We are talking about snake-like hissing and mosquito buzzing. Yogoda just made the most incredible monster mosquito (not a boss, just annoying) because he got tired of working in the forest maps and having nothing to kill...

[Yogoda]

Well, we do know how to add sounds to the mod  What we don't know is how to create a new buzzing sound for the mosquito Can we create this with Audacity for example ?

[Lady-Succubus]

Audacity is mostly a sound editing software... You might be able to find one of their generators (or whatever it was called) that might create a sound resembling buzzing though. Alternatively, you can just record a buzzing noise, clean it up in Audacity, and then use it. :3

If all else fails, there are always sound databases online.

[Yogoda]

Thant's great, thanks a lot I went the lazy way, and just picked one on the database and converted it to ogg.

Now, do you know how to make a sound loop ? There are some sounds in Aquaria that loop automatically, like "waterfallloop.ogg" or "airship-engineloop.ogg", and it is not in the scripting.

[Sindhi]

So, I drew some pine branches and added them to existing trunks; changed the fir branches too. See here with the Dancing Goddess Tree.




This is in forest map 1, by the way, and the mosquitoes are in forest map 2, and are attacking Naija and making this awful mosquito sound... yum. This is my revenge for getting about a thousand mosquito bites in Tulum last month...we are making them easy to kill.

[Alphasoldier]

Perhaps also add forest sounds like crickets or tweeting birds or something, maybe rustling when Naija walks?

[Sindhi]

Brilliant, Alpha; downloaded crickets and birds from www.freesounds.com (thanks to Lady Succubus) so we have a choice. Yogoda has already added the mosquito buzzing to the mod. Yogoda didn't think any birds sang at night, but I guess they do...thanks, Alpha and Lady!

[Alphasoldier]

Owls then?

[Sindhi]

I'm not sure if we can layer the sounds; we need to perhaps choose. We like the sounds with crickets and a few birds best, and there is an owl in one in the distance. Does anyone know how to loop the sounds? And/or layer the sounds? We have Audacity. We are just too lazy to hunt for the answers in this moment. I wanted to do a flying squirrel, but don't know if they make noises other than a faint "whoosh". And lemurs in the Secret Garden with the monkey script, and an exotic bird with the parrot script... and after our trip to the San Juans to see the orcas yesterday, we will add an orca or two in with the whale in the Sunset map; apparently orcas range widely, even into Mexico and other areas with palm trees... and of course we are talking about another planet anyway... a Harry Potter type snowy owl would be great in the forest...

[Lady-Succubus]

Maybe you could "bake" the sounds into the music?

[Alphasoldier]

Isn't it possible to simply make a node that plays sound and gets louder the closer you get to it? Orrr am I talking crazy now?

[Sindhi]

Yogoda says we can layer the sounds. About making them louder when Naija gets closer, that is also probably easy but he's not here to ask; he's taking a pre-dinner nap. I made some new fir branches to go with the new pine branches. I will go through and replace any of the post pics that got dumped when they were replaced in Photobucket.



So you can see both the new fir and pine branches together. I found some great forest sounds today and downloaded them for Yogoda to add to the mod; we will have crickets, wind, birds and probably owl sounds. Yogoda is making a queztal bird today and adding some macaw wings (different planet!) so we can use the parrot script to have it fly in the secret garden and maybe the waterfall map. He has made the mosquito sound get louder when Naija encounters them.

[Sindhi]

Just for you, Alpha, I will make a snowy owl (Hegwig-like). And I did some more noodling in the forest 1 map. Yogoda is working on a quetzal bird to fly like a parrot.
I am getting mixed up replacing all the pics that got dumped when I changed the name of the photobucket album...