Game polishing: sound on advancement

cyberfrag · Post by **cyberfrag** » September 22nd, 2005, 7:09 pm

Hi,

I'd just like to throw in an idea that came up lately and would be a good candidate to include in 1.0 (IMHO): Play a sound on unit level-up.
This would
a) be easy to accomplish (I tested it myself - just a oneliner in actions.cpp - something like sound::play_sound("$SOUNDFILE");)
b) add to overall game polish (acoustic feedback) without breaking anything, requiring rebalancing or whatnot.

I would recommend a simple "pling", or perhaps a nice triad. Just so the player gets the feeling to have something accomplished.
I'd also recommend doing this before the player selects (in case of multiple choices) to which unit he/she will advance. That would, unless I am mistaken, be at the beginning of the advance_unit method in actions.cpp - after line 01288 according to current online source.

I'd provide a patch, but such a simple change is probably not worth the trouble...

So is there a chance for this to be still included?

CU
Cyberfrag

Post by **Dave** » September 22nd, 2005, 8:25 pm

I think it's a nice idea...if someone can provide a nice sound.

hunz · Post by **hunz** » September 22nd, 2005, 8:51 pm

Nice idea, I liked it.

And the sound isn't dificult to found, I'll search a little and post it back later.

God bless.

hunz · Post by **hunz** » September 22nd, 2005, 8:55 pm

Maybe it could be the "tada!" from Win98...
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83/asm/media/ ... 3/tada.zip

God bless

Post by **fmunoz** » September 22nd, 2005, 8:57 pm

hunz wrote:Maybe it could be the "tada!" from Win98...
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83/asm/media/ ... 3/tada.zip

God bless

No it couldn't.
Unless Microsoft releases it as GPL compatible.
But maybe the starting sounds of KDE or Gnome could do...

Post by **fmunoz** » September 22nd, 2005, 9:13 pm

Can somebody scan this ones (GPL ones) to find a good leveling sound?
http://www.kde-look.org/?xcontentmode=25

I'm going to create a thread in Music&Sound so anwers could be posted there.
http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 254#101254

hunz · Post by **hunz** » September 22nd, 2005, 10:09 pm

Ops, sorry for the inconvenience..
I thinked the sound wasn't under the license of Microsoft...
So, I'll like to see (hear?) a Gnome sound as I use [and love] it.

Or, maybe, someone can mix a new sound for the game. I'll look for mixing softwares for Linux and post back.

God bless

cyberfrag · Post by **cyberfrag** » October 4th, 2005, 4:18 pm

Hm... I wonder what has become of this?

CU
Cyberfrag

Loki · Post by **Loki** » October 5th, 2005, 2:10 am

I vote for an audio clip of Mario eating a mushroom.

scott · Post by **scott** » October 9th, 2005, 1:59 am

I dug some up. The first is a little short and the second is a little long. Something will come along.

http://www.cis.rit.edu/~slk8779/wesnoth/gotmail.mp3
http://www.cis.rit.edu/~slk8779/wesnoth/angel_open.ogg

Tout · Post by **Tout** » October 9th, 2005, 8:49 am

I think the upgrade sound used must not be hard coded but an attribute of the newly upgraded unit description.

Grand Knight upgrade sound may be different from the Dread Lich upgrade.

icen · Post by **icen** » October 9th, 2005, 9:21 am

I'm throwing all the GPL/Public Domain sounds that may be useful for Wesnoth, here: http://www.echostar.pl/~dolny/wes/

Fama · Post by **Fama** » October 10th, 2005, 12:11 pm

I know what you need... The "bling bling" sound of a cash register (or whatever, you know, old shops?) thingy

martenzo · Post by **martenzo** » October 10th, 2005, 2:10 pm

I think that it shouldn't be some starting theme or real world sound-effect. Perhaps it could be someone saying "level up" with a really cool voice.

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » October 10th, 2005, 4:06 pm

martenzo wrote:I think that it shouldn't be some starting theme or real world sound-effect. Perhaps it could be someone saying "level up" with a really cool voice.

I guess we won't see speech in Wesnoth until Version 3.0