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Offline Melssj5

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Getting some sounds!
« on: October 13, 2008, 09:37:03 pm »
Hi, does anybody knows some source of sounds to use freely. A firend of mine said he could help me doing the sounds and the music for my game "undead FlierMatch", but now he says he has no time and I am looking for some free sounds to use.
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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2008, 10:06:55 pm »

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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2008, 10:57:42 pm »
I mainly use the second site that Egon mentioned.  It does have free sounds, but there is also a large archive of pay-per-download sound effects which are reasonably priced IMHO.

Another site that has a massive archive of free sound effects is http://www.findsounds.com/.  I was not able to find any copyright information on this site, though, so I would recommend further research before using it to download sounds for use in a commercial application.  It looks to be similar to google images, where it searches the internet for sound effects.  That would raise serious copyright issues if it is the case.

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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 08:33:26 pm »
Couldnt find anything nice, I guess I will have to do my own sounds using a microphone and blowing, whistling and things like that. Maybe recording some sounds from movies like starwars and then editing a bit.
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 11:30:34 pm »
Audacity is a pretty nice free sound editing program.  Has a lot of filters and things for changing pitch, etc.
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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 11:40:33 pm »
Couldnt find anything nice, I guess I will have to do my own sounds using a microphone and blowing, whistling and things like that. Maybe recording some sounds from movies like starwars and then editing a bit.
IMHO, the problem with sampling sounds out of movies (let alone the copyright stuff) is, that they almost never appear in a clean form. They are intermixed with music, speech, other sounds...you don't really recognize this when watching the movie, but you do when taking little sound bits out of it.

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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2008, 06:30:55 am »
ok, and what about some explotion animations? Any idea?
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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2008, 08:59:45 pm »
Apart from the particle engine, it's a little rough to do a general purpose explosion animation.  I might could do one for you if you post your ship someplace.  I work in Blender so it would be some 3ds frames, like 4 or something.  The poly count would be higher because I would have to divide the ship up.
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Re: Getting some sounds!
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2008, 09:28:45 pm »
I don't remember if you use 3ds Max.  If you do, there is a nice tutorial on how to make a generic explosion (not an object blowing up - just an explosion).  You can use the basic concept outlined there to make a variety of different explosions.

http://www.tutcity.com/view/explosion.14490.html