Re: [M-dev] Question and request

[Gregory S. <wo...@tr...>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Forrest Cameranesi wrote:

> Question: is it possible (and if not, would it be easy to make it
> possible) to change the rate at which the "breathing" sound plays?
> Right now it plays every 30 seconds (ish), but as soon as you've gone
> underwater even briefly it plays the complete sound, so my options
> are either to have a brief sound play once every 30 seconds while
> you're underwater or in vacuum, or have a long, 30-second-ish sound
> play every time you go underwater, even if you immediately leave the
> water again. If I could shorten the repeat delay, I could have a
> short sound that plays more frequently, but doesn't play for long
> after leaving the water.

I'm not sure how this would work, since the interval varies based on the 
number of minutes of O2 the player has left:

4+  minutes: 30 seconds
3-4 minutes: 20 seconds
2-3 minutes: 15 seconds
1-2 minutes: 12 seconds
0-1 minutes: 10 seconds

> > Request: It would be nice if pausing while in full-screen mode didn't
> swap back to windowed mode automatically. It makes sense that
> switching out to another app while in windowed mode would pause, but
> sometimes I just want to pause the game without switching modes. (And
> since I have rather long texture load times in Eternal, every mode
> switch is really annoying).

If it's been more than 7 seconds since you saved or started the game, you 
could just hit Esc, which will pause the game (but not switch to 
windowed mode) until you hit Yes or No.

Long texture load times are easily eliminated by using a faster texture 
format (or using Linux, where we don't need to reload the OpenGL context 
on mode switches :)

Gregory