Sound

Introduction

The audio part of the Dark Mod has been divided into the following three sections:

• SFX
• Ambient
• Voices

The folderstructure

This structure and all the soundfiles can be found in doom3/darkmod/sound.

• Ambient - Sounds which are added by the leveldesigner in order to bring life to the map. Mood enhancers, if you wish. Ex: machines, birds, waterfalls and background music/loops.
  • Ambience: Sounds not tied to an object. Music/background hums. Added purely to enhance the atmosphere.
  • Environmental: Sounds that imitate an object from the world. Such as machines, birds, crickets and other animals, a stream of water, churchbells, rattling chains etc.

• SFX (or Soundeffects) - We have adopted this term for any sound that is played from within the code. That basically means leveldesigner wont have to bother about them. Ex: footsteps, impact sounds, weapon sounds, the pickup-loot sound, porcelain-cup-dropped-on-marble sounds etc.
  • Game: Certain "special" sounds as levelstart, objective_complete/failed, main menu sounds etc
  • Movement: Footsteps etc
  • Tools: Weapons and gadgets
  • World: Collisions, objects (open doors etc)

• Voices - Things spoken or expressed by the inhabitants of the world. That includes: Humans, zombies, belchers, and any other creatures we might come up with.

File formats

The Dark Mod is using the following standards:

• SFX: Ogg, 44100Hz, 96kbps, mono
• Ambient: Ogg, 44100Hz, 160kbps, stereo OR Ogg, 44100Hz, 96kbps, mono. (Does the sound really benefit from stereo format?)

Doom 3 supports 1 or 2 channel, 16 bit OGG or WAV files at 11025, 22050 or 44100 Hz.

Adding sounds to your level

This part will explain how you add a sound to a level using the inbuilt soundeditor

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