Separate lighting/orchestrion control by floor

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Originally Posted by AriesMouse

Not sure how they would get the orchestrion to work, unless you would then have to have one on each level of the house.

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I would be fine with that. Especially now that they have the mini one.

I don't see that lighting should be a problem considering each floor has it's own chandelier. It's definitely the one of the two I'm more interested in since lighting has a big impact on atmosphere.

Sounds can definitely be separated by floor. There's a certain point when going up and down stairs that sounds from things like the Shower Stand completely cut out instead of fading out as with distance. I guess it depends on how the Orchestrion actually works.

Amen! This needs to happen...like two years ago. It's very hard to set the mood and roleplay, or showcase certain themes with the lights being fixed to being the same level on all floors. It's a headache.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

At least the light should be easy enough to do!

I'm not so sure how the orchestrion would/could work, unless we go back to the music actually coming from the orcherstrion (please dont)... I'm not oppossed to the idea, just sceptical how that could work.

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Yeah, I imagine the orchestrion would be harder to make work. I'm OK with just the lighting if that's all that's feasible.

The orchestrion I assume would be made to work by creating invisible zone dividers on the stairs between floors, similar to the sorts of map transitions we see in some dungeons. Of course, only SE knows how it could actually function.

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Originally Posted by Rymm

I would love to be able to do this, but the only thing that concerns me is that (from what I've observed ingame) the only time lighting or music changes by zone is when there is a loading screen. I would haaaaaaaaaaaate to have the house floors separated the same way that workshops or FC rooms are. I'm not sure how else they would do it. :/

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The zone lighting for the house seems to genuinely come from the chandeliers in each room based on the ability to change the light by changing the chandelier (eg diamond chandelier) and the ability to create dark spots with the use of partitions, which block the light. SE can definitely create separate light sources, as my wall lanterns all glow independent of the fact that I have the zone lighting set to 0 and of course many lamps can be turned on and off at will by the homeowner. I think the lighting is very doable. It's the orchestrion I think is more questionable.