Hello, folks. Long time no update, yes? Yes. Agreed.
Now that we have that out of the way, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you a brief teaser trailer I made. A teaser trailer of what, you ask? Of lightning, my friends. Behold:
Yes, the rumors are true - I have not forgotten about my twelfth sound design development diary, which features the improvements I am making to the weather system using my favorite medium (hint: it's audio). I spent a significant amount of time recording storms last year in the Rockies, and you may remember my excitement when I posted the audio for the strike that nearly hit me (it missed by about 15 feet, thankfully). Well, I've organized much from those sessions and recently implemented them into our weather system with some advice from @vincentswtc of the Stalker Weather Total Conversion mod. I sped up the strike frequency in the teaser to demonstrate the utter madness that occurs in 360º all around the player. All audio is pulled randomly from my library of dozens and dozens of thunder strikes, all recorded by me.
Yup, that's right. This thunder you are hearing is all from my personal library, recorded by yours truly for L.U.R.K. 1.2. Finally, you won't have another mod that uses the same old sounds from the same old free libraries found online. This shit is legit, as they say. Well, I'm pretty sure that's what they say.
Dev Diary 12 will showcase the implementation of:
- distant thunder (for strikes several miles away) audio
- stereo thunder audio
- mono, positional thunder audio
- rain drops on the actor's clothes
- exterior audio environments that match the weather, now with two-channel integration
- interior audio environments that match the weather
- and other stuff I've forgotten
Stay tuned, folks. I know it has been a long wait, but we've got more coming.
- Dae
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This is such awesome news. I've always loved just grabbing my headphones and listening to your video's! I can't wait to start this daily ritual again :)
Also, let me know if you need anything!
And hey Daem, I've been inspired by you as well. BUt it's been some time since my last creation, see this: Moddb.com (If you'd like, you could take a look at the files. I've got the .wav files for you if you'd like. I recorded some of those sounds and edited them a bit)
Thanks, Loner. I'd be happy to help out with anything if you need it. I'll give that vid a good listening to soon, but first impressions are quite good :)
hey, are you in anyway affiliated with Robbaz from youtube?
Yes, how so? :p
I am more than pleased to hear news from you, mate. Let the troubles pass by you.
No troubles here, friend. Life is good. I am just busy as a madman over here in my new digs.
Great news. The video makes you feel really cozy when thinking you and your pals are sitting near the barrel. :)
You'll love what I'm doing with the more distant thunder, then. Thanks for the feedback.
Holt ****, players will have heart attacks! :))
WHERE DA BOOMSTICKS AT!?
Great! I love your diaries.
Fantastic, as always!
Sounds great.
Holy ****! I never imagined that thunder would add that much more atmosphere. The next logical step in my illogical brain would be more dynamic storms with mutants reacting to them. I live in a dream world.
The excitement just grows and grows. I am having a difficult time containing it.
I love thunder... unless it's right over my head!
Very few games, let alone mods, give audio this much attention. If you get weapon sounds right, you could definitely give DICE a run for their money.