Customsounds.plist

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The customsounds.plist is organized as dictionary with pairs of key and value strings. The used keynames are enclosed in square brackets. Values can be filenames with filextension (e.g. "scoop.ogg"), references to other keys (e.g. "[buy-commodity]") or arrays in which case Oolite picks a value randomly.

Keynames starting with "@..." are (by convention) only used within customsounds.plist, not directly by the game and can be used as reference.

Keys

aegis-planet

Triggered when player enters the planets aegis. Unused by Oolite itself.

aegis-station

Triggered when player enters the stations aegis. Unused by Oolite itself.

autopilot-denied

Station refuses docking clearance.

changed-option

Player made a change on options screen.

dismissed-mission-screen

No way to differentiate between mission options

energy-low

Energy below 25% - may occur repeatedly. Unused by Oolite itself.

escape-pod-scooped

Unused by Oolite itself.

ident-locked-on

Ident targeted ship

ident-off

Turned off ident

ident-on

Turned on ident

incoming-missile

Help, help, they're shooting at us

jump-mass-locked

Target memory expansion could not be used

menu-navigation-not

Attempt to go past end of a menu. Unused by Oolite itself.

mine-launched

Unused by Oolite itself.

player-direct-hit

Hit by weapon while shield down (player-hit-by-weapon and player-direct-hit play at once).

player-hit-by-weapon

Hit by weapon.

player-scrape-damage

Touched another ship (or docking bay).

save-overwrite-no

Player selects Cancel on "are you sure you want to overwrite?" alert on save screen.

save-overwrite-yes

Player selects Overwrite on "are you sure you want to overwrite?" alert on save screen.

target-switched

Target memory expansion used successfully.

weapon-overheat

Unused by Oolite itself.

witchdrive-failure

Jump failed, internal damage (1/8 witchjump malfunctions; other 1/8 is fuel leak, see fuel-leak).

witchdrive-malfunction

Misjump (3/4 witchjump malfunctions).

wormhole-created

Unused by Oolite itself.

Ideas

Sounds for specific ships

• It would be lovely to see the first really complete oxp ship. That means:

own 3d model

own textures

own shaders

own hud

own sound set.

for complete immersion. (https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=114395#p114395 PAGroove 2010)

• A Krait could sound pretty different from a Python... .-)

The only thing you need is 3 soundfiles and then a small modification on your shipdata.plist:

script_info = {"engine" = "myengine.ogg"; "engineUp" = "myengineUp.ogg"; "engineDown" = "myengineDown.ogg";};

engine is the basic mumbling sound, the other are for accelerating and decelerating (Svengali 2010 - a few posts down from the above)

Chatter on the SpaceLanes

Well, there's a lot of possibilities for radio chatter, especially recorded in the voices of different community members..

"Hey! Anybody want to buy a trumble? They're cute, cuddly and soooooper cheap for a limited time only!"

"Keep your trumbles to yourself, buddy."

"Yeah, nobody wants to hear about your trumbles."

<singing> "Oh, pack up your trumbles in your old kit pack and smile, smile, smiiiiiile."

.. but these might be more fun as random bits one hears when heading along the spacelane, mixed kinda low with some static to make them sound like distant signals of ships somewhere outside scanner or visual contact range. (Ganelon, 2010 - followed by three more dialogue ideas)

Issues

• There are a number of things which can interfere with the timing

• Pausing the game:

Cody: Something I’ve noticed… the BGS background sounds continue when the game is paused.

This includes the injector rumble and the hyperspace countdown (which puts the countdown out of step).

Svengali: As the hyperspace countdown is defined in customsounds.plist, there's not much we can do. The only chance would be to create single sounds for the last five seconds and only keep a background layer in customsounds.plist. But as the BGS oxp is intended to be available as single packs too (customsounds, images and scriptcontrolled ambient/fx) it is no option. (At this time BGS was a suite of 3 OXPs).

The other thing is the engine stuff. This is script controlled and to stop these sounds when the game gets paused would require to store the game clock and compare against the stored value. I'm a bit worried about adding additional checks as the script already needs quite a few milliseconds to run. I've spent a whole while in speeding it up, so it doesn't hit the timelimiter in Oolite anymore. And I'm also not sure what happens when the sounds are restarted then (gap? would be nasty.). (All from 2010)

Ahruman: (This is doable in javascript).

I pointed out quite some time ago that a fixed countdown sound does not work properly and never will. There are several reasons: pausing, the Time Acceleration Factor, and the fact that ships can have custom countdown periods spring to mind. The only way to get a countdown that sounds right is to set up a timer in response to the playerStartedJumpCountdown(time) event and play each word as a separate sound.

• Mission Screens (see the old 2010 discussion here).

Links

• Split: Sound Effects (2015-18) has a post by cim on new possibilities for sounds since the v.1.80 upgrade to the OpenAL sound library.
• See Sound effect OXPs (2015) for a discussion of issues with programming sounds in Oolite.
• Random Sound Selection (2009) for details of how to enable this