{"author_name":"wombatica","cat":"LD #24","comments":[],"epoch":1345960980,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"52801","p_author":"wombatica","p_authorkey":"13300","p_urlkey":"88503","p_title":"Day 2","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1345960980","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"13300","us_name":"wombatica","us_username":"wombatica","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

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A day in the life of the graphics bod is fun, fun, fun! Well, I’m also by default the audio bloke too, which is something I am really not qualified in. Anyone who’s heard me sing would cringe at the mere thought.<\/p>\n

I used BFXR<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.bfxr.net\/<\/a>\u00a0for the main sound effects. Love that program.<\/p>\n

We then attempted to record a girl’s voice for speech sound effects. Recording is easy, but editing out the background noise and static proved too painful given the time scale so we hatched plan-B. After some searching (and much frustration) I found Mary<\/strong> which is an open-source text-to-speech program that exports to WAV. We will probably convert to OGG format but anyway WAV is at least something we can work with in Audacity<\/strong>. Very happy with the result, it has the right touch of constipated darlic we wanted.\u00a0http:\/\/www.findbestopensource.com\/product\/mary<\/p>\n

Graphics To-do list:<\/p>\n

* Help splash showing keyboard controls<\/p>\n

* Winning and losing splashes<\/p>\n

* Explosion (G3D probably, not sure if we’ll have time to add particle effects)<\/p>\n

* Bullet G3D files<\/p>\n

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Will already posted this progress video from last night but if anyone hasn’t seen it and cares…\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fS-JMsLi2E0<\/a>\u00a0<we have made a lot of progress since then.<\/p>","time":"August 26th, 2012 1:03 am","title":"Day 2"}