Mana Games

[matservant]

Hi Manu,

Would it be possible to update the grunt system with a pre-strike delay ?
As we can hear from some tennis players, they start grunting before the strike, during serve or during point.

My idea, for not breaking the actual grunts system : we could add a "Pre-strike Grunt Delay" setting in Player ini file, which will be optional
If "Pre-strike Grunt Delay" is not defined in the ini file : the grunt is played at default timing like now, so when the player hits the ball
If "Pre-strike Grunt Delay = 0.4" the grunts will be played 0.4s before the player hits the ball.

So we could make grunts sounds that include these pre-strike sounds, making the sound design of the game even more realistic

Thanks a lot

[manutoo]

Hello,

I want to do that since a couple of years and even started to look into it, but it's non-trivial so I didn't have the time to finish it ; maybe I'll do it someday but I'm not sure when...

[matservant]

Oh interesting ! What do you mean by "it's non-trivial" ?

[manutoo]

That it doesn't take 15~20 minutes of work, but more like 1 day, because there are a lot of layers in the sound system to isolate each functionality and this one would require connecting one end (the gameplay) to the other end (the .ini).