-=> Quoting Roger Fingas to Lee Jackson <=-
 RF> was to do something unique - "one-sided" foley.   For instance, they
 LJ> Possible, but it sounds very memory and CPU 
 LJ> intensive, especially with
 RF> That's what I've been thinking, but apparently, they've
 RF> managed to solve the problem (to a degree).
 LJ> The biggest problem would be the multiple sound 
 LJ> channels it would require -
 LJ> at least 2 per sound.  We'll have to look into it, but I can't guarantee
 LJ> anything.
        My understanding is that the sounds are mixed and *then* fed into a 
channel, but I'm not entirely sure.
 LJ> I wonder if Joe Blow with his ESS clone....
 RF> Do most people have ESS clones?  The people I know only own
 RF> Sound Blasters.
 LJ> A lot of the systems sold over the counter have clone 
 LJ> sound - Yamaha OPL3SA
 LJ> in Toshiba's stuff, Crystal in IBM's stuff, ESS in others, with the odd
 LJ> Creative Labs Vibra or equivalent in others.  The idea I was trying to 
get
 LJ> across is that most sound devices sold with today's bundled systems are,
 LJ> more or less, crap.
        Yes, but most of us can't afford the cards you have at 3D Realms!
 RF> They certainly should!  The sounds in most games are rather
 RF> linear, i.e., fire a gun into a wall, the sounds will always be the
 RF> same.  In Trespasser, the sounds for the same event will change
 RF> constantly.
 LJ> Yes, but will the change be so subtle that you won't be 
 LJ> able to tell that a
 LJ> change has happened?  Again, we'll see.
        The example they use for the sound variation is hitting a monitor 
with a baseball bat (haven't we all wanted to do that at some point?).  If 
you tap the monitor glass lightly, it'll make a light "clink" noise.  
However, if you wind up and smash the monitor into microscopic pieces, it'll 
make one heck of a racket, right?  The problem with sound system design in 
most games these days is that they play one object contact sound for just 
about everything.  Only recently have we started hearing sounds for different 
varieties of objects!  DreamWorks was supposedly worked around this dilemma.
 LJ> ... Lemon Curry, Hallelujah.  Fnord.
        Someone's a Monty Python fan, eh?
        Lemon curry?  ;-)
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