Community Event / Creation SoundTag

[Battlegrade]

This is a concept "only" idea for adding additional sounds in game [PC side] for some added effects.

The idea was to map KB commands to some extra sounds in individual threads.

You use a form to map KB comands in a GUI and save the data to a file that is read by the console app.
The run-time .exe runs in the background reading KB commands on the fly. [using DirectSound api]
When it sees a match it fires a thread to play the sound buffer.

Its a work in progress.

 

[Cataclysm72]

Playing devil's advocate here, but doesn't basically every executable action in ED already play a sound effect?

 

[Battlegrade]

Playing devil's advocate here, but doesn't basically every executable action in ED already play a sound effect?

Yup, indeed it does.
I am just messing around with some ideas as I wait for my parts to arrive.

And there are probably 1000 different ways to add automated sounds from software to hardware.
I see some really cheap embedded .mp3 and .wav players that could be interesting add-on.

Maybe I'll have one running all the time so when I first get into my seat it can greet me with "Welcome back Cmdr shall I boot the subsystems?" Then have a power relay supply power to everything including the PC.

 

[Cataclysm72]

Then have a power relay supply power to everything including the PC.

Usually the power switch of your PC is a basic switch that switches to GND on a jumper. Just replace the jumper wire with your own and power everything else off USB maybe?

 

[Battlegrade]

Usually the power switch of your PC is a basic switch that switches to GND on a jumper. Just replace the jumper wire with your own and power everything else off USB maybe?

Yup that would work since it's digital IO there. Have the sound module hooked to a PIR and when I enter the cockpit area it speaks the welcome message, power up my panels and boots the PC. Then PC side has a script/task that launches the Game as I get seated.

 

[Cataclysm72]

I've seen a script somewhere that creates a shortcut on the desktop to skip the launcher and start the game right away. I want to try that out myself because i'm already tired of taking the mouse everytime I turn on the pc.

 

[Battlegrade]

I've seen a script somewhere that creates a shortcut on the desktop to skip the launcher and start the game right away. I want to try that out myself because i'm already tired of taking the mouse everytime I turn on the pc.

Here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99483

And it works grand, already using to launch my system for a more seemless boot sequence.

Should be easy nuff to make a C# app that gen's this token and makes a shortcut or script.

I should have a beta demo of SoundTag here shortly for bashing on.