Senses integration.

I'm recollecting all of the various senses and render methods to go along with them. Post senses we've confirmed and their render methods here using this format:

Sense (what it does)
organ (organ placed to create sense)
render method (how the sense is represented in the game)
levels (i.e sight: b&w vision, limited color vision, color, beyond human range of color)

Current list

Sense: Electromagnetic (Sight)
Organ: Optical Organs
Render Method: Visual
Levels: Certain Ranges of EM with differentiation and magnitude detection.

Sense: Audition (Hearing)
Organ: Auditory Organs
Render Method: Audio
Levels: Hertz and Decibel detection.

Sense: Gustation (Taste)
Organ: Gustatory
Render Method: Text, possibly starting with "Tastes..."
Levels: Accuracy and Magnitude

Sense: Olfaction (Smell)
Organ: Olfactory
Render Method: Gaseous Renderings
Levels: Accuracy and Magnitude

Sense: Tactition (Touch)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Text again, possibly starting with "Feels..."
Levels: Magnitude and Location

Sense: Thermoception (Heat)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Text (magical tool, ain't it?) stating "Hot", "Cold", "TOO HOT!", ect.
Levels: Magnitude, Location and Temperature

Sense: Nociception (Pain)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Flashing screen
Levels: Magnitude and Location

Sense: Magnetoception (Magnetic Fields)
Organ: Ferrorus metal concentrations in body
Render Method: Compass?
Levels: Sensitivity

Sense: Echolocation
Organ: Auditory, and vocal organs
Render method: Visual
Levels: Louder vocalizations, and sensitivity

Render Methods:
These are possible effects that we can use or combine as render methods.

Spoiler:

@GamerXA Under render methods I saw that you had alot of ????, most of those I think could be rendered by a comfortability tab. It would tell you if it was to hot or cold for your creature, or where your creature hurts. This could aslo have effects on how well your creature preforms. An overheating wouded creature dosen't run as fast as a healthy comfortable creature. But then again we don't want to make this game to realistic, otherwise it will get too complicated and not be as fun.

Sense: Echolocation
Organ: Auditory, and vocal organs
Render method: Visual
Levels: Louder vocalizations, and sensitivity

GamerXA wrote:

Sense: Electromagnetic (Sight)
Organ: Optical Organs
Render Method: Visual
Levels: Certain Ranges of EM with differentiation and magnitude detection.

Sense: Audition (Hearing)
Organ: Auditory Organs
Render Method: Audio
Levels: Hertz and Decibel detection.

Sense: Gustation (Taste)
Organ: Gustatory
Render Method: Text, possibly starting with "Tastes..."
Levels: Accuracy and Magnitude

Sense: Olfaction (Smell)
Organ: Olfactory
Render Method: Gaseous Renderings
Levels: Accuracy and Magnitude

Sense: Tactition (Touch)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Text again, possibly starting with "Feels..."
Levels: Magnitude and Location

Sense: Thermoception (Heat)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Text (magical tool, ain't it?) stating "Hot", "Cold", "TOO HOT!", ect.
Levels: Magnitude, Location and Temperature

Sense: Nociception (Pain)
Organ: Nerves
Render Method: Flashing screen
Levels: Magnitude and Location

Sense: Magnetoception (Magnetic Fields)
Organ: Ferrorus metal concentrations in body
Render Method: Compass?
Levels: Sensitivity

All suggestions are in blue.

Added.

There's no doubt in my mind that magnetoception should be shown by a compass on the screen.

Sense: Nightvision
Organ: An add-on to your optical organ
Render: During night outlines of creatures can be seen in green
Levels: The higher the level the clearer the outline.

Also what about this sense for underwater creatures...

Some fish like this drum fish "hear" using their air bladders. The bladders detect sound vibrations and relay them to the inner ear via a set of bones in the middle ear called the "Weberian apparatus." Hair cells in the inner ear respond to the vibrations and transmit the sound information to the fish's brain.

2creator wrote:

Sense: Nightvision
Organ: An add-on to your optical organ
Render: During night outlines of creatures can be seen in green
Levels: The higher the level the clearer the outline.

Also what about this sense for underwater creatures...

Some fish like this drum fish "hear" using their air bladders. The bladders detect sound vibrations and relay them to the inner ear via a set of bones in the middle ear called the "Weberian apparatus." Hair cells in the inner ear respond to the vibrations and transmit the sound information to the fish's brain.

Or just have a night vision image like cameras have.

Albalrogue wrote:

2creator wrote:

Sense: Nightvision
Organ: An add-on to your optical organ
Render: During night outlines of creatures can be seen in green
Levels: The higher the level the clearer the outline.

Also what about this sense for underwater creatures...

Some fish like this drum fish "hear" using their air bladders. The bladders detect sound vibrations and relay them to the inner ear via a set of bones in the middle ear called the "Weberian apparatus." Hair cells in the inner ear respond to the vibrations and transmit the sound information to the fish's brain.

Or just have a night vision image like cameras have.

QFT. Just bump up contrast a ton at night and render with slightly more light.

~sciocont wrote:

Albalrogue wrote:

2creator wrote:

Sense: Nightvision
Organ: An add-on to your optical organ
Render: During night outlines of creatures can be seen in green
Levels: The higher the level the clearer the outline.

Also what about this sense for underwater creatures...

Some fish like this drum fish "hear" using their air bladders. The bladders detect sound vibrations and relay them to the inner ear via a set of bones in the middle ear called the "Weberian apparatus." Hair cells in the inner ear respond to the vibrations and transmit the sound information to the fish's brain.

Or just have a night vision image like cameras have.

QFT. Just bump up contrast a ton at night and render with slightly more light.

Well the contrast should be bumped up a ton at day as well. Since the organisms that will have night vision will be nocturnal or live in dark places such as caves and abysses and will most probably be blinded during day light.

Albalrogue wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Albalrogue wrote:

2creator wrote:

Sense: Nightvision
Organ: An add-on to your optical organ
Render: During night outlines of creatures can be seen in green
Levels: The higher the level the clearer the outline.

Also what about this sense for underwater creatures...

Some fish like this drum fish "hear" using their air bladders. The bladders detect sound vibrations and relay them to the inner ear via a set of bones in the middle ear called the "Weberian apparatus." Hair cells in the inner ear respond to the vibrations and transmit the sound information to the fish's brain.

Or just have a night vision image like cameras have.

QFT. Just bump up contrast a ton at night and render with slightly more light.

Well the contrast should be bumped up a ton at day as well. Since the organisms that will have night vision will be nocturnal or live in dark places such as caves and abysses and will most probably be blinded during day light.

QFT. actually, during the day, i'd just bump up brightness.

GamerXA wrote:

Sense: Audition (Hearing)
Organ: Auditory Organs
Render Method: Audio and a possible tinting of the screen to point the direction of the sound?
Levels: Hertz and Decibel detection.

So, here's my first time post and suggestion

Darkgamma wrote:

and a possible tinting of the screen to point the direction of the sound?

Might get annoying with too many sounds, but I'll wait to see what other people think...

Darkgamma wrote:

GamerXA wrote:

Sense: Audition (Hearing)
Organ: Auditory Organs
Render Method: Audio and a possible tinting of the screen to point the direction of the sound?
Levels: Hertz and Decibel detection.

So, here's my first time post and suggestion

I wonder what the screen will look like at a construction site, or some sort of anything, involving a large crowds of things making noise.. hmm..



Must be hard to keep track of, anyway.

Creatures like these probably would be confused by too many sounds.

Commander Keen wrote:

Creatures like these probably would be confused by too many sounds.

Good point, maybe this could be used in earlier multicellular?

But that still leaves later on in the game...

The Uteen wrote:

Commander Keen wrote:

Creatures like these probably would be confused by too many sounds.

Good point, maybe this could be used in earlier multicellular?

But that still leaves later on in the game...

Why not use the minor screen tint in the early multicellular, heh?

Darkgamma wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

Commander Keen wrote:

Creatures like these probably would be confused by too many sounds.

Good point, maybe this could be used in earlier multicellular?

But that still leaves later on in the game...

Why not use the minor screen tint in the early multicellular, heh?

Hmm... Aha!

Better hearing = Smaller sounds make more of a tint, louder sounds stay the same (you don't want to get overwhelmed with tints more easily with better hearing)

Bigger brain = Less tint on louder noises, they overwhelm you less easily.


But maybe all of this is bringing sound into the visuals too much.
Most people do have stereo, that should be enough.
Maybe we include this as an option?
Maybe an option would make it harder to play with louder creatures, so people wouldn't use it...
On the other hand, it makes it easier to hear quieter sounds, so people will.
Overall, this sounds a lot like a thing to help the deaf, but maybe that's just me.

The thing is, in real life your eyesight does not tint when you hear a very loud noise. Surely loud noises should slightly stun your creature and make them try to cover up their ears and a super loud sound cuuld potentially damage your creature's ears and severely stun them.p

fredpie wrote:

The thing is, in real life your eyesight does not tint when you hear a very loud noise. Surely loud noises should slightly stun your creature and make them try to cover up their ears and a super loud sound cuuld potentially damage your creature's ears and severely stun them.p

It could make you feel dizzy, which can make your eyesight go all weird, and you can't see properly because your brain is overwhelmed... And if you heard a loud noise you would close your eyes tightly, and clutch your head, so... I dunno, we don't have to include this, but we should have something for deafening noises.

And remember, a creature with a small brain would get very confused with lots of noises, how else could we simulate that confusion?

The Uteen wrote:

And remember, a creature with a small brain would get very confused with lots of noises, how else could we simulate that confusion?

Start changing the pitch of the sound in game so it makes less sense.

caekdaemon wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

And remember, a creature with a small brain would get very confused with lots of noises, how else could we simulate that confusion?

Start changing the pitch of the sound in game so it makes less sense.

Two problems with that:
1: It doesn't make sense anyway.
2: If a small-brained organism gets confused in a digsite, the pitch the creature hears doesn't change, the creature gets disorientated/confused, and possibly goes into a frenzy if their creature is easily agitated/aggressive.
The player wouldn't have that problem, because they have a big brain and can understand what the reason for all the noises is, so how do we make them get disorientated, confused, or go into a frenzy when their organism would?

The Uteen wrote:

fredpie wrote:

The thing is, in real life your eyesight does not tint when you hear a very loud noise. Surely loud noises should slightly stun your creature and make them try to cover up their ears and a super loud sound cuuld potentially damage your creature's ears and severely stun them.p

It could make you feel dizzy, which can make your eyesight go all weird, and you can't see properly because your brain is overwhelmed... And if you heard a loud noise you would close your eyes tightly, and clutch your head, so... I dunno, we don't have to include this, but we should have something for deafening noises.

And remember, a creature with a small brain would get very confused with lots of noises, how else could we simulate that confusion?

Simple, wiggle the screen and change the controls around a bit. I remember a game I played ages ago where the controls were flipped when you were under pressure, and it actually confuses you especially if you don't expect it.

fredpie wrote:

The Uteen wrote:

fredpie wrote:

The thing is, in real life your eyesight does not tint when you hear a very loud noise. Surely loud noises should slightly stun your creature and make them try to cover up their ears and a super loud sound cuuld potentially damage your creature's ears and severely stun them.p

It could make you feel dizzy, which can make your eyesight go all weird, and you can't see properly because your brain is overwhelmed... And if you heard a loud noise you would close your eyes tightly, and clutch your head, so... I dunno, we don't have to include this, but we should have something for deafening noises.

And remember, a creature with a small brain would get very confused with lots of noises, how else could we simulate that confusion?

Simple, wiggle the screen and change the controls around a bit. I remember a game I played ages ago where the controls were flipped when you were under pressure, and it actually confuses you especially if you don't expect it.

That is a good idea. Maybe you automatically move your head towards a sound if it is loud enough (from your creatures POV). With all the sounds happening rapidly, that would do the wiggling affect and give it a good reason, too.

Imagine yourself playing as a soldier in Org. mode. In a middle of normal patrol mission, you are suddenly under enemy artillery barrage. The only way to save yourself is to run, yet you can't because the camera is constantly jumping from one explosion to another, making you unable to even see what's going on (and giving you a headache ). I don't think thats realistic or good for gameplay.