[REQ] Radio Broadcasts

ryuzu · 03-21-07, 06:14 PM

So digging a bit in SH4 the radio broadcast possibilities look interesting.

To summarise there are two ways of playing modded sound; the gramophone (just like SHIII) and the new radio set.

The radio is already stocked by Ubi surprisingly, but the way it works you may never know about it

It seems the radio is designed such that it will play files at specified times/dates - just like real radio you have to have your set switched on and tuned in! Given that the broadcasts are only a few seconds long, unless you know it's coming the chances of having the radio on at that time are slim!

The data is just a set of text files and ogg (and some wave) files. Each radio station is set up in a text file. A quite cool thing is that the radio stations have dates so you could have one station in Manila initially English language, being shutdown and replaced by a Japanese one

Plus the stations can be given a specified frequency so you can have a US, Japanese, Australian, Chinese station etc There appears to be a coordinate system possibly coupled with a range parameter - if so (and if that works) it would be v. cool to only get transmissions when in range of the transmitter. (As a side note, I suppose you could incorporate this into missions - special forces transmissions at certain times etc)

So here's the requests

1) Obviously, news clips at the right times (perhaps repeated each hour for a day since they can easily be missed), and some stock radio music to fill in the gaps.

As I see it, a US Sub will have its own English language records, so the radio may as well be foreign (Japanese, Chinese etc) music and speech, while other English language stations may be just speech broadcasts (with minimal music to fill in the gaps).

2) The problem with the radio system as it stands is knowing when a broadcast is on. As it is you'd need to leave the radio on all the time to hear them... There are a couple of possiblities here 1) Use a text file - this is what I did, just read the config file to see the dates for broadcast and made sure I was there and tuned in 2) Set the the broadcasts like the real thing so that they occur at the same time each day (or week if that's too much news!) 3) Provide a little window in game which provides a list of broadcast times & dates.

I've had a bit of a dig, one problem is easy access to Japanese music and speech broadcasts from that period. Probably need a Japanese speaker/reader to assist with that process....

r.

03-21-07, 06:14 PM	#1
ryuzu Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 171 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	[REQ] Radio Broadcasts So digging a bit in SH4 the radio broadcast possibilities look interesting. To summarise there are two ways of playing modded sound; the gramophone (just like SHIII) and the new radio set. The radio is already stocked by Ubi surprisingly, but the way it works you may never know about it It seems the radio is designed such that it will play files at specified times/dates - just like real radio you have to have your set switched on and tuned in! Given that the broadcasts are only a few seconds long, unless you know it's coming the chances of having the radio on at that time are slim! The data is just a set of text files and ogg (and some wave) files. Each radio station is set up in a text file. A quite cool thing is that the radio stations have dates so you could have one station in Manila initially English language, being shutdown and replaced by a Japanese one Plus the stations can be given a specified frequency so you can have a US, Japanese, Australian, Chinese station etc There appears to be a coordinate system possibly coupled with a range parameter - if so (and if that works) it would be v. cool to only get transmissions when in range of the transmitter. (As a side note, I suppose you could incorporate this into missions - special forces transmissions at certain times etc) So here's the requests 1) Obviously, news clips at the right times (perhaps repeated each hour for a day since they can easily be missed), and some stock radio music to fill in the gaps. As I see it, a US Sub will have its own English language records, so the radio may as well be foreign (Japanese, Chinese etc) music and speech, while other English language stations may be just speech broadcasts (with minimal music to fill in the gaps). 2) The problem with the radio system as it stands is knowing when a broadcast is on. As it is you'd need to leave the radio on all the time to hear them... There are a couple of possiblities here 1) Use a text file - this is what I did, just read the config file to see the dates for broadcast and made sure I was there and tuned in 2) Set the the broadcasts like the real thing so that they occur at the same time each day (or week if that's too much news!) 3) Provide a little window in game which provides a list of broadcast times & dates. I've had a bit of a dig, one problem is easy access to Japanese music and speech broadcasts from that period. Probably need a Japanese speaker/reader to assist with that process.... r.