Another Point We Should Agree On...

[LiquidBronze]

we should decide and agree on what to record and render everything at as well.

i normally record and render everything at 44.1 Hz, 16 bit, stereo (thats basically the default for all recording needs)

if we want surround sound, we will have to use someone who has that 5 point pluggin to render it that way, because i do not.

 

peace

LB

Edited October 17, 2004 by LiquidBronze

[pakmannen]

Thief uses stereo sound, but all the sounds are recorded in mono. It's all about how the engine is constructed. Not how the sounds are recorded. But yeah, we should decide on a format. The Doom 3 sounds seem to be in the ogg format. I don't know much about that, so I'll leave it to someone who does. Otherwise I too vote for 44.1 Hz, 16 bit.

[New Horizon]

I was thinking of using Ogg as well. I'm going to run a few tests to see what will give us the best quality vs. filesize for storage of the vocal sets.

[LiquidBronze]

understood, thanks pak...

but it would still be best to get everyone on the same page for file rendering and what format.

i dont know much about .ogg either, ill look into it some

 

peace

LB

 

 

here is page for oggvorbis

 

http://www.vorbis.com/

Edited October 17, 2004 by LiquidBronze

[New Horizon]

I've worked with it a bit before. Essentially a nice alternate to mp3. I find it gives much better results for gaming purposes.

[pakmannen]

The Doom 3 sounds seems to be recorded at 44.1kHz, 86Kbps (0.4q), mono

[New Horizon]

Cool, I can do that no prob.

[Darkness_Falls]

I can do whatever, as long as my software allows I wouldn't know which KHz settings, etc. to use for a game anyways, so I'll rely on your guys' expertise!

[LiquidBronze]

that rendering should not be a problem, but 86Kbps thats an odd number there

the norm is at least 96

 

 

peace

LB

Edited October 22, 2004 by LiquidBronze

[Fingernail]

The specs are at http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/sounds.php

Edited October 22, 2004 by pakmannen

[pakmannen]

"Valid sound files are 1 or 2 channel, 16 bit OGG or WAV files at 11025, 22050 or 44100 Hz."

 

So, what about: Ogg, 44100Hz, 96kbps, mono?

 

That page also talks about sound-shaders. Is that something we should look into?

Edited October 22, 2004 by pakmannen

[Darkness_Falls]

What's the final decision on this? I just made some Ogg files using these standards:

 

Ogg, 44100Hz, 96kbps, mono (per Parkmannen).

 

I don't know what the final decision was on the 'q', but I used (0.5q). I have no clue what 'q' is (0.5q) was the only available option for me in Goldwave when selecting the other Ogg settings.

Edited November 1, 2004 by Darkness_Falls

[Fingernail]

sound shaders, my dear friend Pak, are basically like material shaders in that they tell the engine how to mix the sounds with other sounds and which sounds to play. So you could have a sound shader which is called, but actually references several sound files, and randomly plays one each time, for instance.

[pakmannen]

Darkness: I think 0.5q stands for 0.5 quality. Just something Goldwave uses probably. The weird thing is, it says your files are saved with 0.4q, 86Kbps?

 

Finger: Oh, that's actually useful then.

[Darkness_Falls]

LOL, well, I *tried* to record them all at 96kbs. Maybe I missed one or two, but I'm quite certain I saved the majority of them at 96kbs, according to the options Goldwave gave me. Are we sure we want all our sound files saved in 'mono'??

[pakmannen]

There are no real advantages of recording them in stereo. And the filesize is half as big in mono.