Post by scornflake on Dec 3, 2021 11:57:04 GMT
Helllo!
I'm using MapMagic to generate terrains.
As such I know where sand, water, grass and trees are. I'm thinking it might make sense to create a bunch of prefabs for various sound types (with Ambient sound scripts in them), then spawn these over my terrain using similar rules.
Then I'd be able to get most of my ambience for free. yay.
At this stage; because it's ambience, the sound groups are endless loops, with 30-60s long same for the most part.
I'll likely end up with many overlapping areas - is this a concern performance wise? I might end up spawning 50-60 of these in a single 512 terrain, quite easily.
From what I can tell so far; MA seems to only play one sound even if im in multiple areas (overlapping).
I'm asking because ideally I want to make the ambience distance "reasonable" so that there's some kind of distance falloff away from the source (moving away from the ocean, for example). But also small enough that I can cover terrain in a granular-ish sort of way.
So I guess I'm asking for comments on the approach in general. Am I heading for "audio pain" later on? or nothing to worry about?
I'm using MapMagic to generate terrains.
As such I know where sand, water, grass and trees are. I'm thinking it might make sense to create a bunch of prefabs for various sound types (with Ambient sound scripts in them), then spawn these over my terrain using similar rules.
Then I'd be able to get most of my ambience for free. yay.
At this stage; because it's ambience, the sound groups are endless loops, with 30-60s long same for the most part.
I'll likely end up with many overlapping areas - is this a concern performance wise? I might end up spawning 50-60 of these in a single 512 terrain, quite easily.
From what I can tell so far; MA seems to only play one sound even if im in multiple areas (overlapping).
I'm asking because ideally I want to make the ambience distance "reasonable" so that there's some kind of distance falloff away from the source (moving away from the ocean, for example). But also small enough that I can cover terrain in a granular-ish sort of way.
So I guess I'm asking for comments on the approach in general. Am I heading for "audio pain" later on? or nothing to worry about?
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