MC707 wrote:well, recieving calls from listeners also happens in GTA SA, too.
Believe it or not, I didn't know it
MC707 wrote:Having said that, we could even *call* between ourselves, (though not in the way you are thinking). We could first plan here in the forums, for instance, a call from someone in a system to the DJ. Then we record individually (DJ and caller), modify the caller's recording to make them sound like telephone, and finally we put the voices together. what do we get? a nice interestellar call in a holo radio.
Good
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My voice is already more present than it should, but I could always help with sound post production, taking some burden off the voice actors.
Just a negative thought: all jumps and docking/undocking interrupt the current soundtrack. Very appropriate for docking, think of the news and commercial center soundtracks, or the oceanic theme, but that way we could never listen to the end of a sufficiently long program. That leads to 2 ideas: possibly make radio survive jumps (standard faction related music can change as it reflects jumping between differently controlled systems), and possibly start playing a radio ogg from a random point, not always from the start; alternatively, have playlists of short radio contents that play in queue, but randomly starting from any of the single contents. Of course, I have no idea if these things are doable at all.
How about a call from an ISO supporter, advocating the cause, the DJ makes "casual" questions with the goal to locate him as he speaks, keyboard noises (DJ notifying security) then at some point we hear intruders, the ISO man going like wtf, brawl sounds, "help! help! I'm being oppressed!" more noise, end of call
Let's sum up what's needed for the radio project:
- writers (commercials, DJ talk, calls, song lyrics)
- music composers (songs, jingles) not necessarily owning all that's needed to make the final ogg. In that case...
- ...music makers to make the unequipped composers' works come to life
- voice actors (everything!
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- post producers
and finally,
- a brainstorming topic, named "What's the frequency, Deucalion?" (sorry, can't help messing with real song titles
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) where even a single line joke or idea can be posted by anyone, and I repeat, *anyone*.
Why am I stressing that? Well, I've noticed that whenever we've asked for feedback in the voice acting threads, we've rarely gotten anything from people who weren't already contributing as actors or having coding/content roles, as if there's an official voice acting team and no one else is entitled to give opinions... wrong, wrong, wrong! Don't be too lazy and shy, share your ideas, give feedback to the others' ideas! (Pretty please with icing on top?
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) One day I wrote a very vague post hinting at a voice filter to try for radio messages, with absolutely no intention of being dragged in... and then I got dragged in
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