Stendhal Development Meeting 2009-11-22/Result Log/Music: Difference between revisions

* Oslsachem: there's the question whether music should be played individually for each player or whether it should be associated with the zone...

* hendrik: There should be different music for cities, forest, dungeons.

* hendrik: So it would be zone depended.

* hendrik: We already have some wind like sounds in 0_semos_village_w, but that is very basic.

* plassy: music have to add atmosphere

* superkym: yes and storyteller's music are great examples of this

* storyteller: Thanks very much :)

* superkym: some are very pretty and quiet and suitable for outdoors, a meadow

* superkym: some are dark and scary like for a dungeon

* Oslsachem: but that means that when a player enters a zone the music is not played from the beginning

* superkym: also he made them fairly small file which is important as we don't want to force large downloads, and they loop, too.

* yoriy: if music stay zone dependent it must not be monotonic , so probably there must be 2-3 misic themes for each zones

* blackfinix: osl that wouuld be ok though?

* hendrik: There is this problem:

* hendrik: Player One enters the zone.

* hendrik: The music starts.

* hendrik: 30 second later player Two enters the zone.

* storyteller: Then the music has to be played for every single player

* hendrik: Will he hear the music from the start? Or will it start with 30 seconds into the track?

* tigertoes: if it is a loop, wouldnt that mean it doesnt matter?

* vomit: the music should play for each player

* tigertoes: same concept for when you have music on telephone and they put you on hold

* storyteller: yes, tigertoes... for loops it doesnt matter

* love_puppet: or maybe the player 2 picks up 30s in to the track

* vomit: that should be controlled locally by the client

* plassy: the music should fade in... there is no need to hear it from the start

* hendrik: Always starting at the beginning of the file is a lot easier to code.

* plassy: except if special events arise

* yoriy: id like to have music in client instead server

* plassy: hendrik: i dont see the problem... dosn't java handle this?

* plassy: isn't there any library?

* superkym: why is it a problem if the music starts from the beginning as you enter, for each player? i think that is ok

* jesco: yes it is

* hendrik: okay, that makes things easier.

* Oslsachem: there's an unofficial rule that states that all the players should see the same things in the game though I don't know if music is really a part of the world or just the game interface because there isn't actually a musician playing it...

* kiheru: java does not handle everything. there's still a lot about the behaviour to code

* blackfinix: wouldn't all this music be very resource hungry?

* Oslsachem: you could play with the music tempo, increasing it when a player has low health

* humana: so if you want some music for some maps... I am here, I have guitar pro .. and domi have a better programm

* miasma: like the time-out music in super mario, oslsachem? ;)

* kiheru: maybe eventually osl. first we need something that works

* kiheru: just have a "atmosphere" property for the zones that's send to the client

* superkym: if you really wanted to make it start at the correct place you'd send what moment in the track to start from but not stream