Dramatic alarms

[lazarus1024]

There are a few I like on that (especialy if it could be configurable).

- radar altitude

- low resource

I agree. I'd just stick to these, but I really, REALLY like the idead behind both.

I'd use either 500m or 1,000m for the altitude alarm.

I'd only have one for fuel (not RCS or anything else), and I'd set the threshold at 10% remaining.

Neither of them I'd have too loud or "alarming". Maybe a "beep, beep, beep" repeating for altitude and the same for fuel, but different pitch to differentiate between them.

Alarm shuts off if your velocity is zero or positive in the direction away from the ground.

[Meatsauce]

I'll see about allowing alarm triggers to be user-set.

[Lazro]

Maybe if you approach the surface at more than 30 m/s at under 500m radar altitude it could work. No nuclear alarm type alarms though. At high volumes it could give people a heart attack! Maybe when engines are close to exploding due to overheating or when fuel is low during landing too.

[Meatsauce]

I got something working right now

Couldn't resist resurrecting the old plugin. Audio is working for a few conditions.

I'll start a new thread when I have something halfway presentable.

[Dun Kirk]

I have on multiple occasions imagined the master alarm sound from apollo 13, when an engine shears off. Thumbs up.

They do plan to have voices in game, so I would me nice to have a radar range count down. Atm you have to be in the IVA to see it...

[boomerdog2000]

I'd only have one for fuel (not RCS or anything else), and I'd set the threshold at 10% remaining.

Altitude alarms could be cool especially for when doing sub orbital hops on smaller moons, Jeb almost had a collision with a mountain when searching for the Kraken on Bop, but about the 10% fuel alarm.

10% of what? The total fuel in the ship? The total fuel in the stage? If it were fuel in the ship most of our smaller craft would have the alarms going all the time due to the high amount of fuel on launch. If it's stage we're going to be hearing that alarm while launching, especially if you're launching an asparagus stage.

[Meatsauce]

It is almost ready for some public testing.

Edited November 19, 2013 by Meatsauce

[Meatsauce]

I've had my hand at this request.

Check it out > here <

[Kruleworld]

i think the gui could add some feedback as well as alarm sounds. it was mentioned earlier that flameout needs an alarm, it could also alert via the stage stack.

[fastbikkel]

Or just A dramatic alarm, just for fun :-)

Anyone seen that southpark episode with the "inception" theme?

That guy that screams his ass off when trying to get the group to sleep.

[coolitic]

I don't want alarms to be annoying.

[technicalfool]

Adding *****ing Betty to the command pods?

Hell yeah.

EDIT: Err. Seems this forum even censors the URL. (word for female dog)ing Betty. Google it.

EDIT EDIT: Created a redirect. The above URL should now work, so long as the Wikifiddlers don't revert my page creation.

Edited February 19, 2014 by technicalfool

[Nemrav]

When we get multiplayer, there should be a Kerbal text-to-speach

[CsendesMark]

I don't want alarms to be annoying.

if they add, I bet they will add an option to turn off too

[AlteranEmpire]

I would love like that "too low terrain" alarm for when gears aren't deployed or something like that.

[THX1138]

I also wish for these (configurable) alarms.

[pandaman]

Yes, I like the idea of this.  altitude us the obvious one, but low fuel, electricity etc are all the kind of things that RL pilots would get warnings for anyway.

[worir4]

Just for an idea of what it would be like, you can try out BD's awesome cockpit. It has one of the best IVAs I have ever seen. All the little switches work!

It has got altitude callouts and alarms. 

Edited January 29, 2016 by worir4

[THX1138]

43 minutes ago, worir4 said:

Just for an idea of what it would be like, you can try out BD's awesome cockpit. It has one of the best IVAs I have ever seen. All the little switches work!

It has got altitude callouts and alarms. 

Do the alarms only work in IVA mode?

[worir4]

14 minutes ago, THX1138 said:

Do the alarms only work in IVA mode?

I think so.

[THX1138]

Are there any current dramatic alarm mods?

[Matuchkin]

On 29/01/2016 at 5:25 PM, pandaman said:

Yes, I like the idea of this.  altitude us the obvious one, but low fuel, electricity etc are all the kind of things that RL pilots would get warnings for anyway.

Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bingo. Fuel. Bing-

"Shut the hell up!" *Turns off alarm*

[hurric]

How's about when the situation is completely hopeless and Doom is assured

 

a panic stricken voice saying ....Ejecting Black Box

[Coga19000]

I am only against the fuel warning alarm. It would be a big suspension-breaking to hear said alarm every time a booster stage was getting empty.

[Corona688]

The game has a lot of alarms already, albeit visual ones, including some you might not be aware of, like the vertical speed alarm.  Observe the red light beside the vertical velocity indicator.

They tried to add an "overheat" sound early in the game, but took it straight back out because it was pretty much on all the time XD

It might be more useful now.  How I envision it, a single warning "beep" when a part begins to heat up (i.e. when its thermometer bar would appear).  Above 50%, a steady slow beep with pitch determined by temperature, above 80% a pulsing alarm.  There'd only be one alarm, not one for each part, with the worst overheating overriding the others.

Other useful auditory notifications might be the traditional airplane seatbelt "bing" when you've slowed down from re-entry to the point it's safe to deploy your parachute.

You could install a radar as an "optional part" which would click slower and faster depending on how far you were from the ground.

Edited June 16, 2016 by Corona688