Here's a few of the Evil Spit Plant sounds I've been making over the previous two blog entries set to gameplay footage to show how the sounds work within the context of gameplay.
School of Video Game Audio - Weapon Sounds + Project Asset List
Designed the initial projectile shoot sound for the enemy spit plant in the Wwise Adventure Game this week.
To create this sound, I used a combination of monster and gun samples (SoundMoprh's Monster Within, Watson Wu's Battle Rifles and Pistols and Airborne Sound's Free Firearm Library) plus my own vocal recordings to create a punchy yet still organic projectile launch sound.
Inspired by a really cool talk on gun sound design by Barney Oram at last month's Game Audio North meetup, I split my sound design for the spit sound into several layers. These were:
- Punch Layer - This initial layer contained a combination of bassy sounds to give the spit event a meaty kick. This layer includes a kick drum sample and the first transient from some shotgun blasts to suggest the poison projectiles are exploding out of the plant's mouth after a build-up of pressure.
- Slime Layer - As a substitute for the traditional mechanical layer of a gun sound, I used several groups of slime/gore samples to emphasise the organic nature of the plant, and to suggest that the enemy generates the spit projectiles is a very messy process!
- Vocal/Character Layer - To further add to the disgusting/revolting feeling I wanted to achieve with the slime layer, I also included processed monster vocal sounds to suggest that the poison projectiles the spit plant launches at the player are being regurgitated up from the plant's innards before being projectile vomited at the player. Gross!
- Tail Layer - This layer contained hissing vocal sounds I recorded to give a natural decrescendo effect to the end of the sound as it decays away.
I then imported these layers into Wwise and arranged them into various SFX objects and random containers within the play actions of the Enemy_EvilSpitPlant_ShootBullet event.
The Enemy_EvilSpitPlant_ShootBullet event in my Wwise project. Randomised pitch and volume offsets were applied to certain layers, and randomised delay offsets to the vocal and tail layers were used to vary the playback speed of the latter sections of the sound.