Engine sound

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:55 am

Ahruman wrote:
ktulu1975 wrote:
It'd be cool to have the Blue Danube kick in when you are about to dock with a space station also...
Doesn’t it do that already? Oh, wait, I have vague memories of a problem there in non-Mac builds that was recentlyish solved.

And of course you need to use your docking computer in order to hear the Blue Danube.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:57 pm

never thought about engine noise before!
might be pretty cool to change the sound file to a choppy/rougher engine note when it gets damaged too.

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:09 pm

I think it should sound like a generator. Because the cockpit is always far away from the engine room. But there could be subtle differences. Hence in a racing game sounds are almost the primary immersion factor for a game.

Anyone does play GTR2 or GTR Evolution? Then you know that sound CAN make a very big difference

0235 · Post by **0235** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:27 am

an engine sound would be excelent, and mabey the odd rattle or shake from small asteroid dust or if you hit a solar flare, but a background hum would be good, and mabey crea\king during Maneuvers.

Post by **Micha** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:57 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
And of course you need to use your docking computer in order to hear the Blue Danube.

A little off-topic for this thread, but in the original (C64) Elite the docking computer could run you all the way from the witchspace point to the station - in Oolite it only works in station proximity. Any reason behind the change? In a (hopefully) safe system it was always good to whack on the DC and go off and have dinner *g* (Admittedly that was primarily before I discovered the 'J'umpdrive..)

On-topic, I'd also vote for some sort of engine/generator background sounds.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:24 am

Micha wrote:
In a (hopefully) safe system it was always good to whack on the DC and go off and have dinner

There is no such thing as a safe system.

(Admittedly that was primarily before I discovered the 'J'umpdrive..)

I think that's the answer you're looking for. Why should anybody go on autopilot from the witchbuoy and have a painfully slow (or long) coffee-break, when there's a jumpdrive?