On a night out with the NPCs

Sometimes NPCs deserve a night off too! #npcrights

This quick experiment for a simple diegetic music system switches between 2d and 3d audio as you move inside and outside the building to maintain the illusion of a single diegetic audio source. With attenuation of volume and LPF on the 3d side. The system itself is pretty simple and doesn’t use any environmental acoustics (verb zones or occlusion).

What strikes me most about this exercise is how effective the audio is at creating mood - doing the heavy-lifting with story-telling and making the scene feel dynamic and alive! For what are essentially pretty boring, static NPC animations - doing their weird little on-the-spot running man/moonwalk moves 😂

Anyways, I thought some of you might find this fun and @Anni Movsisyan said I should be more active on here (she’s 100% right). Can anyone name the DJ or MC?

(Disclaimer: I did not make any of this audio - credit: One Nation 2012)