Item-based crafting machine sound

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Item-based crafting machine sound

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Crafting machines emit different sounds based on the item they are crafting.

What ?
Crafting machines could make sound according to the item they are crafting. For example, crafting iron bars from iron plates would make a metallic sound (like a repetitive hammering). Each item (or category of item) would have its own sound.

Why ?
When walking through your factory, you see the various lines of products. It creates a kind of colorful mosaic. From a sound perspective, there is no such thing as you only hear the same sound of crafting machines, conveyors and inserters (and occasionnaly chemical plants). Such a feature would make sound be a mosaic as well.
[Lot of work tho, for both the sound designer and the sound engineer taking care of blending with music.]

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I would really like that. But it’s difficult (it takes some days to create sounds for most important items) and gameplay value is medium/low.
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Re: Item-based crafting machine sound

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indeed (I used to be a composer so I know the work it is lol) and the mixing of any given combination of sounds should be thought which would be quite a nightmare to do...

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"sounds" expensive

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netmand wrote:
Thu Aug 27, 2020 2:31 pm
"sounds" expensive
Oh you
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