Dynamic Sound System

[PKodon]

While discussing this mod:

http://www.xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=922

with R_P_C (RPC) on IRC, we came up with the idea that perhaps support should be included in Vanilla Transcendence (or in the Official Transcendence Patch) for providing custom sounds for weapons (initially, perhaps for other things later), if present, with fallback to standard sounds when custom sounds are not present.

For instance, the game has a standard sound for lasers, this could be the "default" sound if there are no custom sounds present. If there is a custom sound present, in some category, then use that sound when firing the laser. Keep in mind that this is the firing sound of the weapon or launcher, not the sound of the impact, flight, or detonation of the projectile/beam/etc.

This could be further refined to include a tiered-approach, kind of like this:

Weapon-specific (replaces default sound for this weapon only - say X-Ray laser)
Corporate-specific (different sounds for, say, a Makayev launcher, and a similar launcher made by NAMI)
Weapon Class-specific (replaces sound for all lasers)

Somewhere in there, one could also probably have weapon level-based choice of sound, as well, (all kinetic weapons of Class IV or below sound like this).

The idea is to be able to support custom sound mods without having to overwrite vanilla weapons.

Anyway, I'm posting this here for discussion, before writing a ticket.

PK

[shanejfilomena]

the switch is a good thing.....

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; If not found, return the closest media
						(sysPlaySound unid  theSource ".wav") ;(sysPlaySound unid [.mp3])???

do not plan on any code I come up with working: i usually have to beat them to death before they work or......die.

[RPC]

How about for the second tier (sounds based on weaponstype/damagetype) we could give a damagetype it's own Unid and specify a sound, calling that sound whenever that damagetype was used?

[Ttech]

So like a sounds directory? And a program that can do it?