Idea about Audio behavior - narration​​

Enscape Requests
1

Hi everyone,

My team had an idea about audio

  • Let audio pause playing when user is out of range(volume zero), and continue playing from where it paused when in range.

OR

  • Reset audio playing every time when out of range, always start playing from beginning.

unlike current behavior - Audio is muted when out of range, but still “playing”, so you can’t expect where to begin with.

By changing the behavior to what I mentioned above, we can add narration to a scene,

so user can listen to narration when entering a scene. We can make a story line that guide user through a design.

I came up this idea because our company are promoting VR design review.

we are planing to demo Enscape to branches and customers,

we think the best way is to make an standalone that user can experience and interact with it.

but interactivity that Enscpape can offer is limited currently, an alternative is to make description boards in model so user can read and learn,

but it feels tedious to read so many text.

I think it’s a good idea to let narrative possible, what do you think?

Cheers, :thumbsup:

Eric

2

Hey @Eric_Hsu , those are very interesting ideas indeed and I’ll happily file a corresponding feature request for you which includes your feedback! :slight_smile: Generally, would you, overall, prefer to have the audio reset, or just pause?

3

It’s a good idea in general to have the audio only play when you come into range (I think just now that all audio plays, but the volume is 0 when you are out-with the range.)

I think you would also have to have a loop control so that the audio would either stop at the end of the file or repeat.

It would also be cool if you could hook up an audio source like a web player.

4

both work for my team!

which is better may depends on coding complexity and processor efficiency.
let audio stop when being out-ranged sounds less taxing for computer

5

Thanks a lot for the replies @Gadget_1 and @Eric_Hsu , a corresponding feature request will be filed, and your feedback will be added! :slight_smile: