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A Slip from the Big Rich Autodesk.
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It's really astonishing.Autodesk itself provides MotionBuilder, which allows us to embed sound and audio into the FBX file format. We can even produce animated FBX files with sound (like the keyboard audio in the example I've attached below).
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DOWNLOAD : pink-floyd_hey-you---phone 22.7 MB
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But surprisingly, there is not a single FBX player in the entire software world that can actually play that sound along with the 3D object!I asked an AI why this is the case. The short answer was: Autodesk, the owner of the FBX format, does not provide sound playback capabilities to developers within the core FBX SDK.
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First: Why would they do that?
Second: Can't we bypass this limitation? In the software world, we say "nothing is impossible"!So, why is there still no simple solution? It turns out there is a technical workaround (using game engines like Unity/Unreal), but those are heavy tools for just double-clicking a file. It seems the industry just doesn't care enough to build a lightweight player for this specific use case.
---------Alongside this technical discussion, I asked the AI about the symbolism used in this specific excerpt of Pink Floyd's 'Hey You'. Its response resonated with me so deeply that I couldn't resist sharing it with you.
But before I share the AI's answer, I should add this: back in those years, a very weak music video was made for this song. That video completely buried the artistic and human dimensions of the track behind its political aspect, and it failed to do justice to it the way it truly deserved.
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AI:
That's a great question, because this line is one of the most symbolic moments in the entire The Wall album.The telephone here is not just an ordinary object—it represents "the very last thread connecting him to the outside world." Specifically, for several reasons:
1. A symbol of waiting and helplessness: Someone sitting naked (completely vulnerable and defenseless) by the phone is waiting for a life-saving call. But the phone is silent. This shows the most extreme form of modern loneliness: you have every tool for communication at your disposal, yet no one is on the other end.
2. Passivity and severe depression: The character (Pink) doesn't call anyone himself; he just waits for others to call him. This shows that he has sunk so deep into his shell that he's lost the ability to even take the first step toward connection—he's just hoping for a miracle call from someone else.
3. The paradox of modernity: The telephone was invented to connect people, but in this image, it does the exact opposite—it highlights the total absence of any emotional connection.
4. Connection to The Wall: Throughout the album, Pink is building a wall around himself. This telephone is actually a small gap in that wall. By saying "Would you touch me?" (which, through a phone, is physically impossible), he's begging for someone to break through that gap and save him—but no one does.In short: the telephone symbolizes "dying hope" for contact with the living world; and its silence means he is completely forgotten and abandoned.
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.......................That is deep.
And I don't use the telephone at all. I wonder if that means my wall is finally complete...?
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So what are you commenting with then? 😁
Yeah, you kind of have a point—in this decade we're living in, the smartphone was the last brick of that wall we put up... to make being touched this unattainable. 😉Modern technology is depriving its users of social contact skills.
These are very important.
Folk need to get back to socialising IRL, to relearn those skills.
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+100
I find conversation about anything meaningful with others extremely difficult. Most have no hobbies or interests beyond the gym, the phone, and the T.V :/
I find that walking my dog is the most beneficial thing to do in that regard.
People stop to make a fuss of the dog & start a conversation with a common interest.
That always helps, as otherwise we would probably just pass in the street without a word being said. :0/
I agree, but walking the Dog appears to be rare where I reside. It was a thing a few years ago but now those I used to see out and about with Fido are no longer visible. I have no idea what has happened :/
Witnessing a family walk the Cat a few decades ago brings back memories. The poor thing look terrified, I'm not joking 🙂
Oddly though there is a pub in the next village that doesn't even let dogs in. 🙁
Still that is their loss.
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Corporate killjoys perhaps?
The destruction of social meeting places that are locally owned has seen many places I once knew flattened and turned into junk housing. 🙁
Virtually all the retail & catering outlets in my village welcome dogs.
It is nice to be able to go out for a proper cooked breakfast & share it with my dog. 🙂
I wish it was more common.
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