I love to listen to their voices while the machines are running. 
However, gregtech 6 machines do not make any noise while working.
Are you considering adding sound to the machines?
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Not really, making a Sound Loop requires some sort of custom Audio Code in Minecraft that I cant just do. And I would need good free Sounds and everything.
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Engines used to have a sound but iirc, you removed it due to performance issues.
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That was a Fizz Noise that happened every single time the Engine switched between forward and backward, that was not a Loop, lol.
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So, whatās bout paid library? How much might this cost for you? Just touching GTNH and guys added this shit, lol.
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That would be very annoying licensing issues.
Also i barely work on GT6 as is by now, so im not sure if this is gonna happen at all tbh.
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Having played with Minecraftās audio I donāt blame you for keeping them silent, itās hideous to work with. What audio loop would you envision?
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Just having the Machinesā¦. run i guess? IC2 Style basically.
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Hm, I use a looping sound when underwater, that is called when a players head intersects a water material. In order for it to work however I needed to inject an audio handler that intercepts audio being passed to the audio manager and pass in my own through a loop handler specifically for that audio. The audio handler can detect audio sources and their location, and modify their volume and pitch on the fly. This could probably be converted to play audio loops from machine block locations when they enter certain states.
Trouble is your code is so rambunctious I find it hard to wrap my head around it. So while in theory I reckon it could work, in practice it might be more complicated than that.
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just use the ārunningā or āactiveā state clientside, itās already sent to the server for the texture animations, so it would easily work for sounds too.
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Progress so far, handled mostly from a single class. Able to determine most tile entities and their states on clientTick, and provide and play a required soundKey based on that. Handles looping and cleanup.
Not shown, breaking blocks stops sound also.
Need to account for more generic tile entity classes and introduce a method that can provide random time intervals between looped sounds for certain blocks (bumble_hives), but not worried yet.
(Sounds are for testing and subject to change)
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maybe add something forā¦ resourcepacks? switch in config too and some comments. Users make what they want, you still use what u used.
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Coming along, a lot of the programming is pretty much done, now itās just creating sounds for everything,.. There are, a lot of sounds to make. I estimate about 80 more blocks need sounds with some requiring at least two per block.
Iām making them in Audacity so there is no pesky copyright or royalty licensing to deal with, just modified tones and noise, other than the fire audio that is direct from Minecraft itself. Once complete theyāll be provided to Gregtech under the standard open licensing.
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Nice Sound Effects, just make sure to add the Sound Files in a different pull request than the Sound System itself.
Also I guess all the sounds need to be in the gregapi sounds folder where the tool sounds are, just for some semblance of cohesion. XD
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Donāt worry, Iām getting fairly good at understanding your file structure. Iāve built an audio subdirectory in gregapi, your move to basically build all machines from a single basic machine tile entity has made the work incredibly straight-forward. Currently itās really only a sound handler, looping sound class and some modification to the client proxy to inject the handler thatās new, I plan on adding to your CS audio datastructure to reference the audio files and align with your current work. Iāve had to modify sounds.json and some various machine classes to comment out your current sound implementations but Iām attempting to be as non-invasive as possible.
Iāll separate the sound files pull request itself from the code when Iām done, and let you look over the classes. Currently iām checking for tile entity states based on various variables like mState and mActivity but they can be a little hacky due to some protected fields. Iām taking advantage of your intermediate state changes to introduce, āstart upā or āstallingā sounds as the machine warms, but some blocks like the steam engine could benefit from a dedicated sound state field. Itās inconsequential right now but might be fun to look at after the initial pull request.
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I got excited about this! Any ETA?
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Delayed around the end of the year with some other project work but work was just about complete. Multistructure testing in progress and some electric/electronic sound effect creation.
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