Sounds of Skyrim


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The Dungeons (1.1) | http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=8601 | | http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=9106 | | http://www.tesvskyrim.com/skyrim-content-9-sounds-of-skyrim--the-dungeons | |http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1124-sounds-of-skyrim-the-dungeons/ |
The Wilds (1.0.1) | http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10886 | | http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13231 | | http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1138-sounds-of-skyrim-the-wilds/ |

What does it do?

Sounds of Skyrim adds around 450+ sound effects to the game that are played from thousands of hand-placed sound emission points. Sounds of Skyrim affects most cells and regions. From Civilization to the Dungeons; From the Wilds to Special Events, all situations will benefit from sound additions. The time of day gives you a different atmosphere. So when walking in the city streets during the day, you’ll hear the echo of people shouting in the distance, doors opening and closing, workers hammering roofs. While at night, cats fight for territory, dogs bark, drunkards yell.

Released Modules

The Dungeons

The Dungeons includes 90+ sound effects to add life to the dungeons. The enemy type that inhabits a dungeon will make itself heard. In an undead infested dungeon, zombies moan and spirits yell. In Dwemer ruins inhabited by the Falmer, listen as you hear their distant, echoed screams. At dungeons' entrances, you also hear the exterior weather. If there's a thunderstorm raging outside, you'll hear the thunder rumbling in the fort or cave.

The Dungeons Soundlist

There’s a standard sound set for each type of dungeon: Cave, Dwemer Ruins, Forts/Burrows, Sewers and Mines. These sounds play in these dungeons regardless of who or what lives in it. To spice it up, dungeons inhabited by Daedras or the Undead have their own sound sets in addition to the standard ones. Undead dungeons have zombies and wraiths screaming or moaning. Daedric dungeons have demonic voices or daedras screaming.

The Wilds

The Wilds focuses on adding sound effects in Skyrim's wilderness. With the 94 new sound effects, the purpose of The Wilds is to audibly enlarge Skyrim's fauna with the addition of various animals, birds and insects that play according to weather, time of day and region. In the forests, for example, you'll hear the sounds of foxes, deers and ravens. At night, you'll hear wolves howling from far away or common loons calling others. In The Reach, you might hear the occasional mountain goat or hawk.

In addition to animals, The Wilds also adds rain-impact sounds on tents and wooden structures, sounds of rustling bushes to simulate the movements of small mammals that scatter away as you approach and sounds of calm water waves hitting wood on tree logs or structures that are partially submerged in water.

The Wilds Soundlist

Work-In-Progress Modules

Civilization

Civilization focuses on sound effects heard in cities, settlements, villages and any location where Skyrim's mortals live. It adds 360 sound effects that include distant town shouts, cats & dogs, doors opening/closing and the possibility to hear these sounds and other exterior sounds from the inside of buildings, including thunder, rain and snowstorms.

Civilization Soundlist

Special Events

This module focuses on specific quests and events. I will not give spoilers as to what quests will be affected, but some events like dragons attacking towns are given a "crowd panic" sound in which you hear the soldiers sounding the battle horns and the citizens screaming. A video will be released shortly that will reveal what it affects exactly. For now, it's a mystery.

Special Events Soundlist

Trailers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fFZVF5iL18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmYNTJDCsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8H_XmMYN-s


For your ears' pleasure

http://soundcloud.com/cliffworms/sets/sounds-of-skyrim-civilization/
http://soundcloud.com/cliffworms/sets/sounds-of-skyrim-samples/
http://soundcloud.com/cliffworms/sets/sounds-of-skyrim-special/

You have sound addition ideas, suggestions and comments? I'm all ears.

I loved your Oblivion mod, really looking forward to this.

Oh. My. God. Yes.

Mods like this, are the reason I ALWAYS turn off the stupid game music, because of the total heart-pounding immersion factor of Mods like this!

Crawling around in a dungeon and having the lights out, and the creepy ambient noises of the dungeon as the only thing I hear, gets my pulse going.
I've been surprised in other Bethesda Games because of the ambient sounds and literally yelled out loud and my mouse hand jumps, and makes my FPS view goes all over hell,
and my character usually ends up looking at the ceiling .

Good to see you here Cliffworms!

Sounds are the life blood of adventure games.

Could I suggest three of my favourites: the hooting of any species of owl, the cry of the Common Loon (Common Diver) at dawn, and one I know you will never find, the cry of a rabbit being killed at night, the most terrible sound one can imagine.

Great work

Groovy, Sounds of Cyrodiil is a great mod, look forward to Sounds of Skyrim!

Really looking forward to this. Sounds of Cyrodiil is fantastic.

Looped tavern pvssyr is a great idea to make the places feel alive. There's already at least one tavern having that in-game, the Bannered Mare in Whiterun, so that should be no problem for the rest. In my opinion, all taverns should have it.

I am actually one of the (probably) few people who think it's sad that they took out the absurd conversations between NPC's (you know "I saw a mudcrab the other day.", "Horrible creatures, I avoid them whenever I can", "But I hear their meat is rather tasty".). Those conversations were really making Oblivion come alive, although they were mostly laughable. Skyrim is a much more sad place without them, I think, so maybe sounds in other areas can make things better, eh.

Good luck with the project!

Great to hear that. But to be fair, Bethesda sound director Lampert did for the most part a wonderful job. In the sea of complaints that Skyrim is having, the sound department is remarkably absent of complaints. Sure, there are some areas that needs better or new sound additions, but for a game this size Lampert did his job very well. I'm pretty sure I'll use some of your sounds to compliment Lampert's work.

Thanks!


And to you as well!


No problem for the first two. They're already in. As for the last...well...I guess I can go buy a rabbit and do some...."field tests"..


Oh it's great if there's already one. I'll use it in the other taverns then. Thanks for the tip.
I do miss some of those dialogue lines. It's a big step forward to have NPCs address each other by name and discuss specific matters with them, but it would have been great to hear them talk about your deeds again. (But maybe it's in the game and I have yet to hear them)



Skyrim's sound design is truly excellent and I applaud Mark Lampert and his team for doing such an excellent job in this department.

I'm really looking forward for this. I just watched your work on Oblivion yesterday and they definitely raised my hair in excitement. What a great job, sir! *watching*

Glad to see you're back for Skyrim Cliffworms.

Do you have the call of Larks at all for the more temperate regions of Skyrim, during daytime?

THanks Fhaarkaas!


I did a quick search on the sound resource I use and I get many samples of larks, though it's field recording so it's tricky to isolate the sound. I'll continue more research to get one...Unless I already have a lark in my bird sounds from Sounds of Cyrodiil. I renamed them all so unfortunately I do not know if I already had one.
This being said, I'll still have around 30 bird sounds so if the lark cannot be found, there'll be plenty of more birds to take its place.


Well I've played a lot since I started the thread and I'm eager to start working on it with the Creation Kit. I've been taking notes as I play of sounds to add. In some dungeons where there's a battle going on between two groups, I'll add the echoes of shouts/screams/battle sounds that dissipate as you clear the area. Some special events should benefit from this as well.

I'll re-record the tavern and street sounds from Sounds of Cyrodiil with professional tools and more voices. With Skyrim's sound design being top notch, I want Sounds of Skyrim to sound just as good.

Here are two compilations of the Dwemer Ruins sound sets.

The first being the sounds you'll hear in the Dwemer Ruins inhabited only by the Dwemer machines or bandits. The second being what you hear in Dwemer Ruins inhabited by the Falmer. The first compilation is also heard in the Falmers' lairs, so that you do not only hear their screams.

Enjoy!

http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/327605_vjdv9/DwemerStandard.mp3
http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/327606_ip16h/DwemerFalmer.mp3

Note: The volume has been raised for easier listening. It'll be quieter in the game.

What is this onmvoice thing? doesnt work for me, soundcloud is much better .

Anyway, my only complaint from the Oblivion/Cyrodiil trailers is that a lot of those sounds are too "Loud" for being ambient sound, the rats and ruins and the forts and the undead caves especially.

Skyrims sound design is very carefully crafted in that nothing becomes overwhelming, where as most of these sounds are.

Just my personal preference andtaste, if your doing this for Skyrim, i'd advise to make it bit more subtle and more of sound scape, rather than a few random sound effects playing (some which i heard were rather low quality)

Just my two cents. Goodluck with this though .

Sounds amazing. Great job!

What happens when you try to load the OnmVoice pages? It has always worked great on my side.

The sounds in the Oblivion trailers had been put at a higher volume for easier distinction of the added sound effects. In-game, they blended in perfectly with the background.
Thanks for the feedback, Tyranick!


Thanks!

Great news. I loved the mod you made for Oblivion.

Three more compilations for your ears. Once again, we are in the depths of Skyrim's dungeons:

http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/327603_kove6/FortsAndBurrows.mp3 - Echoed, distant impacts. Done by draugrs or human hand?
http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/327602_l116k/Sewers.mp3 - Metal gates creaking far in the corridors, rats squeaking and fighting, echoed distant impacts from the inhabitants.
http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/327604_nn2wy/FalmerScreams.mp3 - Falmers are blind and must rely on their hearing to sense danger. When they hear something, they scream to alert their brethren. When you hear these high pitched, distant screams, you know a Falmer tribe is waiting for you.


For the inhabitants' screams and the like, I do wonder if it's possible with a script command to know if an area has been cleared of monsters. Hopefully there's a function that can check this and thus, remove the dungeon inhabitant sounds when you've cleared an area.

Otherwise, I am pretty much done in sound research. I have distant sounds for most animals/creatures that you can hear at night or day from inside and outside. Like a lone wolf howling or several wolves howling at each other.

On the next update I will provide the "Horror" dungeon sound effects. These include ghosts, undead and Daedras sound effects played in the dungeons inhabited by these fine gentlemen we love to destroy.

EDIT: Oh and I also changed the Dwemer Standard sounds. The creaking did not please me and I muchly preferred subtle, echoed and reverbed metallic impacts. It fits the atmosphere better, http://www.onmvoice.com/play.php?a=76175


Thanks!

I use onmvoice too, however it doesn't work for some people, you could always try upload-mp3.com too, you can give a direct link and get that usual quicktime looking screen with the controls etc when the file plays.

I like the distance falmer screams, the bangs in the first two sound compilations a bit too purposeful, I think the Tombs in Morrowind and the Vaults in FO3 had some scary atmospheres
The main thing that irritates me about Skyrims caves and Dungeon etc, is they all sound like you're in a wind tunnel, I would like for the inside of the Dungeon or whatever to once in a while be a "shock",
because you just stepped in from outside where the wind is blowing and this particular dungeon is dead silent except for some drips etc, but most of the Dungeons seem louder than the actual weather outside sometimes,
it's pretty cliche in this game.

For certain Dungeons/Barrows/Caves I would go with "Less is more"

Thanks for the tip. The samples are now hosted on UploadMP3.


The dungeon sounds are controlled by a script that plays them once every 20-40 seconds (A random variable determines the time between the sounds). This way, you won't hear constantly them every 10 seconds. I also prefer quieter atmospheres for dungeons. While it's true the in-game dungeons have wind or noise, I find it necessary to fill the audio emptyness it would leave.

Just saw this WIP linked in another thread, very much looking forward to it!

Downloaded Sounds of Cyrodiil and will be downloading this one as well. Thanks, cant wait

Here's a new sound effect. The dungeons are pretty much complete, so onwards to Special Events.
The following sound, which is still a work-in-progress, is one of the sounds played when a dragon flies-by a Stormcloak-occupied city. Only cities (Like Windhelm) or towns (Like Dawnstar or Riverwood) have this sound. Smaller settlements do not.

When a dragon attacks, there's the possibility that this sound is played, or only horns or only the people screaming. So that way it is not redundant, especially considering how the dragons love to launch frequent attacks there.
Imperial-Occupied towns have the Imperial battle horn instead of the Stormcloak's.

http://soundcloud.com/cliffworms/sounds-of-skyrim-dragon


Thanks!