Every once in a while I hear this sound while playing The Ball:
http://soundcloud.com/vptaycih/strange-sound-from-the-ball/s-Acxho
It always feels sort of out of place and happens at seemingly unrelated times. I'm guessing it is a "sound not found" placeholder or maybe some sort of debug signal from the game or sound library that something needs to be fixed -- sort of like the big yellow question marks some games will show when they are missing a model file. It feels like that sound is designed to get people's attention. But I don't really know.
It has happened in quite a few places, but for the first time I've been able to reproduce it: the sound plays every time I load my game where it is currently saved. At this point, my Launch log file shows this:
Maybe the sound is related to those warnings?
What does the sound actually mean? It isn't terribly bothersome. If it is a 'bug', I don't really mind if I never find a solution. But I am curious to find out what it is.
http://soundcloud.com/vptaycih/strange-sound-from-the-ball/s-Acxho
It always feels sort of out of place and happens at seemingly unrelated times. I'm guessing it is a "sound not found" placeholder or maybe some sort of debug signal from the game or sound library that something needs to be fixed -- sort of like the big yellow question marks some games will show when they are missing a model file. It feels like that sound is designed to get people's attention. But I don't really know.
It has happened in quite a few places, but for the first time I've been able to reproduce it: the sound plays every time I load my game where it is currently saved. At this point, my Launch log file shows this:
[0028.43] Log: LoadMap: TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2?Name=Player?team=255?SaveGame=Slot0
[0028.55] DevMemory: Virtual memory allocation size: 187.91 MByte (197033984 Bytes)
[0030.86] Log: Game class is 'BallGame'
[0031.20] Log: Primary PhysX scene will be in software.
[0031.20] Log: Creating Primary PhysX Scene.
[0031.32] Log: No Cached Brush Physics Data Found Or Out Of Date (Model_50) (Owner: BlockingVolume_88) - Cooking Now.
[0031.33] Log: Bringing World TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorld up for play (0) at 2011.04.08-02.19.23
[0031.77] Log: WARNING: Cooking Convex For Actor: TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorldersistentLevel.TBBallBlocker_Gorilla_0 Component: StaticMeshComponent_153 StaticMesh: TB_Coders.ballcollision_cylinder (Scale: 0.645000 0.645000 1.419000)
[0031.80] Log: Bringing up level for play took: 0.937969
[0031.81] Log: ########### Finished loading level: 3.371381 seconds
[0032.44] Log: TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorld
[0032.52] ScriptWarning: Accessed None 'ArmsMesh'
TBWeap_BallGun TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorld
Function TheBall.TBWeap_BallGun:AttachWeaponTo:0242
[0032.52] ScriptWarning: Accessed None 'ArmsMesh'
TBWeap_BallGun TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorld
Function TheBall.TBWeap_BallGun:AttachWeaponTo:0279
[0032.52] ScriptWarning: Accessed None 'Controller'
TBPawn TB-Part3-Teotl-Level2.TheWorld
Function UTGame.UTPawn:AddDefaultInventory:000A
Maybe the sound is related to those warnings?
What does the sound actually mean? It isn't terribly bothersome. If it is a 'bug', I don't really mind if I never find a solution. But I am curious to find out what it is.
