FMOD Modding - Requirements Survey

If at all possible, a relay click before the starter sound on older vehicles?

 

I do appreciate the idea that changeing FMOD stuff will be possible in the future, looking forward to that!

Sounds I believe will be changed alot, will mainly be Engine sounds, Turbo spools and Bov, Backfire and maybe crash / glass breaking, at least those are some sounds that I would look into changing

 

Tire rolling sounds on tarmac, potentially different ones for different vehicles.

 

I believe there was a mod previously that added radiator fan sounds, that could be a nice addition.

And how about tyre punctures/coolant overheating creating a pop or hiss?

 

The ability to swap every in-game sound with different ones would be good.
So I could, for example, swap all of the sound effects (engines, dirt roads, ambient sounds, etc..) from Mario Kart Wii into BeamNG.

 

I'm unfamiliar with fmod, but have used audio editing software in the past to replace existing sounds in my favorite games. I would love to replace collision, scrape, skids, environment, ground, and engine loops with my own samples. I used to do it before most of the game's files became password protected. Replacing audio allows me to customize my own experience without the frustration of trying to reverse engineer and implement new sound scripting events.

*edit* In a perfect world I would love for there to be some user friendly interface where I could select individual or groups of nodes and attach audio samples to be played depending on the pressure of contact, such as a small tap using a different sample than a hard collision or a soft and hard scrape.

 

Just trying to think ahead, my main concern would be to increase the detail for sounds which are, in real life, unique to a specific make & model of car. The engine sounds we have now are better than the sounds we had before, but there are many variables which can affect the sound of an engine even relative to other engines of the same type, such that some claim they can tell the difference between a Chevrolet and a Ford small-block V8 just by listening to it - so while for now the game can get away with using the same sound for every engine of the same type regardless of age or state of tune, eventually, it would do wonders for the character and detail of each individual car to have a more differentiated sound. More to the point, if I were going to attempt vehicle modding, I would want something sound-related to be a part of it, as my entire philosophy on cars and tuning (and a large part of the reason I don't care much for sanctioned racing in its current form) is that every car has a unique character worth experiencing.

(Maybe even the Citroen 2CV. I just can't bring myself to like it because it is surrounded by vast mountains of hipstery and "IN A STRAIGHT LINE AT 85 MPH IT CAN EASILY OVERTAKE THE PORSCHE 911 TURBO WHEN IT'S DOING 70 HUEHUEHUEHUE I R SO FUNNEH 4 POSTING THIS AD".)

Also, we just have Automation sounds for engine types not currently used in a vanilla car, correct? Well, their V12 sounds like a V10. Sorry, but it's true.

 

I would like to request some kind of backup beeper or a car alarm which activates when the car detects a collision.

 

We need chimes... All of them!

 

definitely tire rolling sounds, if we want to make an aggressive mud-terrain tire, we can use a louder, more fitting sound for it.

also, not sure if this is currently possible, but impact sounds would be nice to be replacable. something hitting a fiberglass panel would sound different than something hitting a steel one, so it would be great to be able to differentiate it.
along with custom impact sounds, custom scraping sounds for different custom materials (say we want to make something scrape the ground that has a metal tinging sound on asphalt, like a skidplate, we could set our skidplate material to have a custom sound.)

 

I am really interested in adding/replacing new/existing engine/exhaust sounds.
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Depending on how the code works, just being able to add your own sounds to almost everything would be enough (how spoiled does this sound?)
That way you can still make alternate versions of things.
As for sound types, I was thinking about car sounds. Not just the engine but also the parts like the indicator. The difference between indicators is really big. Our 2007 Skoda makes a soft sound while a 2010 Ford Focus makes the sound of breaking a cheap plastic toy. My MX-5 on the other hand sounds different again. etc etc etc blah blah.
Changing groundmodels and bushes would be nice too. You could make some pretty funny and serious maps with that .

 

Looks like I slightly misunderstood.

It would be awesome to be able to change the tyre rolling noise to recreate the buzzing of off-road tyres on tarmac.

 

as long as I can replace all the sounds with minecraft sounds, I'm happy.

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I was playing NFS Most wanted recently, and it made me realise how much I want to be able to change out the gearbox whine sounds.

 

Vehicle sound events, especially for planes. Landing gear moving sounds, switch clicks, warning sounds, etc.

 

I believe the ability to change the turbo/supercharger sound per engine would make a big difference. The sound of small diesel turbos for example cannot be replicated very well at the moment.
I would also appreciate if the following things were open for modding:
- The sound switches make (light switch click, the click of the signal stalk, the turn signal itself)
- Brake noises
- Tyre noises per surface. For example the skidding on asphalt sounds way different on a street tire than on a baja truck.
- Transmission whine (which gears whine, some cars only have their top gear whining because they are worn out, etc)
- Pulling and releasing the parking brake
- Gear clatter with sequential gearboxes
- Not quite sound related but maybe higher RPMs when the engine is cold and maybe slightly rougher idle when cold?

 

the turbo sounds thing is possible, look at any turbocharged vehicle's jbeam and you'll see the sounds they use (there's a few different ones).

 

a tutorial about event creation for beamng would be awesome!! atm i have no idea how to correctly implement events and where to put the .bank. Looks like its not similar to assetto corsa