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Using of custom sounds in animations?

  • I would like to use custom sounds as well as standard ones 103
  • I would prefer to not use custom sounds but edit standard ones instead 35
  • 2019-05-24
  • —2019-05-29
  • 138 votes
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Content

Hi! Because of Kris' comment here I decided to make the poll about using custom sounds in animations. The point is there are both advantages and disadvantages in the use of custom sounds. On the one hand there are no special voices of sex in the game and without using of custom sounds I have to use standard game ones that might be suitable more or less. On the other hand If I use custom sounds, they are exactly voices of sex but they may sound different than balanced standard sounds even if they were tuned in sound editor and this is really might be unwanted. 

So I'm asking you to look at the recent animation and decide should we use custom actor sounds in animations as well as standard sounds or we should use standard sounds only.

One more thing I want to tell you is I can also use custom sound feature in the other way, just to edit standard sounds by adding suitable variations from one sound to another or removing unwanted ones and this may increase the suitability of standard sounds for animations.

Comments

True AI

Would the sounds be noticably different for your animations than for those from other animators? I wouldn't mind custom sounds as long as it wouldn't make your animations sound completely different from all the others I have.

TakayaHiromu

The one you used in the recent animation is easily close enough to the original voice tone sims usually have. Kudos!

AbjectlyCasey

There's just so much entailed in producing high quality custom sounds. From finding the base sound to mixing and standardizing the volume to match default levels, cleaning up the output sound, matching it to the activity, etc. It's a daunting, lengthy process and even for a pro just coming up with a 30 second loop would take a lot of time. Grunts and groans wouldn't be tough, but the Devil is in the details! I record live music gigs, edit, mix and produce both audio and video, and have all the tools and software...but I wouldn't want to try pure custom sounds with something like this. Large scale anyway. But without having access to the raw in-game data I couldn't know for sure...

AbjectlyCasey

Amen to that! I rarely think something's right until after I've broken it and HAD to fix it! Sometimes it's better, and occasionally it's even on purpose! :-) Just have fun with it and good luck!

Kris

My main concern is that after a while custom sounds will get repetitive, since there's only one 'voice' for males and females, and I'm unsure if you'll do compatibility for m/m or f/f uses of your m/f poses (meaning, a receiving male or giving female will either not make noise at all, or they will end up making the same exact sounds as their partner) - and that this will also not help distinguish sims voices from one another since there's three 'tones' of voice, along with pitch for each sex. Also unsure how this will work with Aliens either (haven't tested these variables, so sorry if you've already accounted for them!) -- I just remember the ye olde days of Newgrounds NSFW flash games that had stock sounds that got old when all the women sounded the same - I think tweaking sims-files for your own purposes will still allow for variety, but making things with your own special spin. However I'm also not a modder, so I could be talking out my ass lol! Thanks so much for listening to feedback though - I really appreciate it!

Cher151

I like both! 👍

Charles Adams

I've played the sims so long I never even listen to their "voices" and sometimes I'll get a male character with a female voice and vica versa (must be a glitch somewhere in my game) so it wouldn't bother me.