[Opensim-users] Soundscaping

[Fleep Tuque]

Hi Storm,

In my experience, sound in Opensim is tricky and even less reliable than in
Second Life (which is already somewhat unreliable!).

The biggest problem I've had is with queuing sounds, which afaik doesn't
work.  If you just need to do simple looping, that should be possible with
basic scripts, but if someone's developed a good system for more
complicated soundscapes, I'd be interested in hearing about it too.

A couple of resources that might be helpful for you:

http://nickzwart.blogspot.com/2011/06/soundscaping-tips-for-opensim-and-sl.html
http://forums.osgrid.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2233

Sincerely,

- Chris/Fleep


Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
University of Cincinnati
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Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Storm Singer <mycatlovesme at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello, everyone. I'm wondering what you use to soundscape your Sim. I'm
> still in planning mode for mine, but I was thinking it would be nice to
> have area music on a 20-30 second loop in multiple areas. I haven't done
> much with media prims, last time I used them I found them to be more of a
> hassle and a limitation than I wanted. I was thinking I could script a
> "band in a box"by using short loops and lots of timers, but I heard that
> OpenSim uses its own timer unit that isn't necessarily as small as I would
> need for something like that. Also, timers slow down the Sim by a lot,
> iirc.
> So then my thought was, why not just change the configuration of the
> program to accept sounds in prims that are longer than 10 seconds. I
> remember reading a discussion about the pros and cons of it in secondlife,
> but that was a long time ago, and I don't remember what was said. Also, I
> can't seem to figure out how it would be done. Where is this set at? Would
> I have to get my hands dirty with the source, or can I override it with a
> config file? Also, can I do it to a preset configuration like diva or soas?
>
> Mostly I'm looking for your experiences. Have you messed with this before?
> What have you tried? What worked, or kind of worked, or what should I stay
> away from?
>
> Thanks.
> -Rina M.
>
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