Once a car runs across old tire rubber and other debris along the wall, known as "the marbles", you're most likely to lose traction, and into the wall you go! Sometimes, suttle use of the wheel can help, most of the time, though, you're in for a wild ride. -- If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Crash's spin on Raceway trailer
> Hi, > > Quote >> Smiles Listening to one ture for 300 miles may cause me to turn right >> into a >> wall. >> So, I guess you will have a multitrack player. >> > End quote > > My hope is to have the game cycle through a list of songs. If I use > songs I create I can make several tracks for the game. If I license > music and then there will be considerably less to choose from, but I > hope to make it customisable on this point. > I realise all of us have our own taistes in music weather it is heavy > metal, Country, Wrap, Techno, etc and I want the users eventually to be > able to choose what they want to hear while driving. > For obvious copyright reasons I can not just rip songs like Step And > Wolf's Born To Be Wild, BTO's Let It Roll, the Beach Boy's Fun Fun Fun, > Golden Earings Radar Love, etc off their cds and drop them in. The way > the music industry is about sharing mp3s today that is somewhere I won't > go. > However, I can theoretically make the game so you can drop the songs in > and play them on your own. > > Quote >> MIDI files player could be a nice option in the game. >> That can help in not doing all the tures but able to play our own. >> > End quote > > In perspective I think an mp3 or ogg file player might be better since > allot of folks have mp3s of their favorite tunes, and it is better than > searching the net for midis that don't quite have the same quality of > enjoyment. > > Quote >> Thinking of driving fast music first comes to mind is >> BTO tunes. >> Deep Purple tunes from Machine Head. There should be a few keyboard >> tunes >> on that album. Smiles. >> Throw in some classics like Queen Champion, Plant and Beck, >> Well, I could go through the Alphabet and come back to start again with >> Aerosmith to ReO Speed Wagon. >> > End quote > > This is why at some point an built in mp3 player might be good. You > could wrip these to mp3 using gold wave drop them, in and race and rock > away. > > Quote >> Turning IN the demo it sounds like you have the nack for turning with >> the >> voice, so it sounds like you got the timing down. >> What I see or hear is what would be nice is what I saw in the first >> response >> to the thread. >> The voice being a turning signal . The problem may be when to turn when >> one >> may be traveling at different speeds and differt place on the track. Is >> the >> turn 10 yeards or a 100 yeards. >> It was the phrase "Turning Signal". You know that Click, Click, Click >> sounds when a driver has the turn Signal turned on. >> This sound is suttle enough to give the racer the first indication to >> start >> turning. >> > End quote > > Well, I can look into the possability of adding a true turning signal in > the game. As far as distance the way tracks are designed distance is > kind of relative. When Your car reaches a certain spot in the array the > announcement is fired. > > Quote >> I understand too that you wanted to get something out there and the Voice >> turning may not even be in the final product. >> End quote >> > > At this point I don't have any plans of removing the voice turn signals, > but I will probably add to the options menu a feature to disable it for > racers that don't want it. > > Quote >> Lastly for the Wall sound effect have an echo may be the way but could be >> confusing with many cars on the track. >> A little echo could be good, but my thought is for the Wall and for the >> inside of the track boarders. >> There are several terms for being to close to the wall, The grey area, >> the >> rough and the ice. >> This area of a NaSCAR track becomes dirty with pebbles, track trash, sand >> dirt so so on. >> Before making contact with the wall what about a sound of crackleing, >> pebble >> crunching or other sound to give the driver better move down the track a >> bit >> before rubbing the wall. > End quote > > I've already got a sound in place for this. You won't hit a wall before > your engine gets loud, you will hear ruff surface, and once ff support > goes in your controller will be rumbling like mad on a rough surface. > Cheers. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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