Requesting a pic of the Noise Overlay.

[goboking]

I'm watching last night's Rhymes with Play stream and the guys were asked what concept they most regretted having to abandon.  @jambell says his was a noise system, which frankly sounds awesome, but II can understand why it was scrapped.  He goes on to say the overlay for the system looked great, so I hereby request a pic of said overlay, if one exists. 

[Gurgel]

A noise overlay would have been the thing! Just imagine loud sleepers _everywhere_!

[Ellilea]

Another thing to optimize my pretty base around? Sign me up!

[Yoma_Nosme]

It's a pity. All the possibilities. Noisy machinery,  a rocketlaunch. Waking everything... popped eardrums...the other way...ouch..soundproof material, of course...deaf as a dupe attribute to choose...It's space anyway, right? 

[OxCD]

Oh yeah oh yeah a new mechanism ! I would have love it !

[SharraShimada]

I think, it was because performance. They already have so many things effecting other things, effecting dupes... Everything eats CPU-Power in huge amounts. Now imagine an additional system, emitting sound waves from every thing in the game that makes a noise, effecting the surrounding. 

In terms of executable code, its a mess and a horror for performance.

[goboking]

1 hour ago, SharraShimada said:

I think, it was because performance. They already have so many things effecting other things, effecting dupes... Everything eats CPU-Power in huge amounts. Now imagine an additional system, emitting sound waves from every thing in the game that makes a noise, effecting the surrounding. 

@jambell said it was scrapped because it was another layer of complication new players had to contend with.

 

1 hour ago, SharraShimada said:

In terms of executable code, its a mess and a horror for performance.

IIRC he said enough of the code might still be in there for a modder to do something with it.

[silverbluep]

Wel it is still there right? It's decor.

[watermelen671]

On 11/23/2019 at 8:48 AM, goboking said:

IIRC he said enough of the code might still be in there for a modder to do something with it.

It is.

Spoiler

And if enough of it isn't in the most current version, I have Pre-Thermal version 206776 if people want some of that old code.

 

[Derringer]

There's definitely at least a limited noise system still in place. Snores and sneezes make enough of a racket to disturb sleeping dupes, although the Loud Sleeper trait also confers immunity to most sleep disturbances.

In Dwarf Fortress when last I looked the noise system completely disregards intervening objects. Constructing and deconstructing buildings makes noise as does the operation of a number of buildings, and harvesting lumber in particular raises a truly appalling racket.

[Craigjw]

Dwarves should like noise though, they dream about bashing chunks of metal together.  Surely any blacksmithing in an area should reduce a Dwarf's stress.