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For me sounds are a two-way street. On the one hand dice sounds could be cool, but to me the graphical dice are more impactive. What I would like to have for sounds is the ability to record say a room description and be able to play it when the party enters a room, or to record things like player introductions and such.
Yeah, dice sounds could be cool, but I would rather have sound for other things.
- Thore
You know, I initially didn't think too much of the whole sound idea...I mean, to a certain extent, you have to concede that your not playing face to face and stop trying to spin your wheels compensating for that. I put the making of the dice sound, the shuffling of the paper sound, the opening of the book sound into that category.
But, this thread kinda has me turned around a bit. Some of the ideas that you guys are throwing around are actually pretty cool. I especially like the idea that you could "register" a sound file with the system (by either dropping it into a specified directory like images and tokens) or by command line and then being able to call it back at the command line with a "/play mySound". Very flexible.
Two thoughts.
I'd like to see it implemented in a way so that it can be used completely at the preference of the user. In other words, if someone just isn't into the sound thing, they should be able to turn it completely off.
Second, IMHO (for me, personally, :D ), I would like to see this go towards the bottom of the list. There are some very cool ideas, but I think there are some more important things that need dev cycles before this gets implemented. People have talked about better token support (I know this is being worked on), better editing/adventure writing and creation support so people aren't working with raw XML (which sounds like it is happening a lot - not good), as well as some other things.
But this thread has really thrown out some very cool ideas. Im looking forward to whatever the FG guys throw our way!
-Matt
I am no to the sound. I used it in a competing product and while at first thought it was very cool, it became quite maddening... especially as certain sounds (tied to combat) could not be toggled on & off.
Personally I would rather see other improvements completed first (mapping, DM utilities, tying player data to icons, etc). When and if sound is implemented it should be an optional user preference.
My two cents!
Cheers,
BTS
I say, absolutely, yes. This product has a polish to it like no other of its kind. The only thing that feels to be missing are sounds; the first time I used the product the glaring lack of sounds made me think it was broken or bugged. I understand that Fantasy Grounds is still fairly early in production so I would be hesitant to advocate pushing sound implementation to the top of the list. I do, however, recommend that it be on "the list" somewhere.
This applies to both dice sounds and interface sounds. I think you'd do well to include a seperate toggle for both dice and interface sounds, as well, to appease both camps.
Thanks for listening!
i would like sounds too, but the ability to toggle is essential
other than system sounds, sound effects and room descriptions or NPC speeches would be cool, perhaps in a similar way to boxed text, i.e insert the link to the sound in the storybook, then drag it into the chat window to activate at the appropriate time
Chris
This would suffer from the same 'problem' that someone just pointed out about the maps showing up on the pc's side before they are needed. Since sound files tend to be large they will need to be present like maps and would be accessable by players to play on their pc. Whatever 'fix' is done for maps would have to do the same for sound files as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by tarrasque
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There are many ways of playing, of course, but I tend to think that making an audio clip of some situation might make the game seem very linear, not RPG-like. And it has the same drawback than would have NPC-portraits: The GM would need to have a portrait of every NPC, making session preparation very heavy, or players would immediately recognize important (planned) NPCs from improvised ones. With audio clips the difference would be even more dramatic. Just my personal thoughts, though.
Ok just one sound then, when is ours turn to play then ..Dooonnngg.. :D
Heh, I didn't even think of that. We could always tell when we were 'on track' when our dm started to read from his papers. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged