OpenAL priority "Intelligent Source Manager"

[JernejL]

openal supports any sound stream, so if you use it with ogg/vorbis, such as with vorbisfile.dll it should work just fine. however my wrapper doesn't yet have any ogg / streaming support, but i'm planning one.

[Firlefanz]

Will the wrapper also get EAX support?

OpenAl itself looks a bit difficult to use for a game (I have one music and lots of SFX (in a list) loaded always).

Firle

[JSoftware]

OpenAl itself looks a bit difficult to use for a game (I have one music and lots of SFX (in a list) loaded always).

What do you mean? You don't have to use streams in OpenAL. You can keep a list of sounds and then create sources where a specific sound will play

[WILL]

I believe the Creative SDK DLLs will give you EAX hardware support. As for the setting call, I'm not sure what you'd have to set, but I'm almost sure that their libs will have the support.

See you're getting 3D sound either way, it's just enabling/disabling the hardware that will give you the EAX acceleration option in your games.

At least this is my best interpretation of how EAX & OpenAL works.

Of course you can always read more about it in one of Noeska's tutorials. Lesson 12 EAX Enviroment You can probably tell but he has done extensive work with OpenAL already.

[JernejL]

Will the wrapper also get EAX support?

OpenAl itself looks a bit difficult to use for a game (I have one music and lots of SFX (in a list) loaded always).

Firle

you can implement that easily with openal extensions, it's not depending on the wrapper at all. and the wrapper works with any openal dll.

[JernejL]

Updated / fixed download link.

Is anyone still interested in this or uses it? i added some improvements and fixes to it since the last update here.

[chronozphere]

Yes I'm intersted. I use openAL in my engine and would like to add a bit more intelligence to it, if that can be achieved easily.

What kind of license do you use? I might want to use (some of) your code in my engine in the future.

[JernejL]

No license.. kinda like BSD but more like do as you please

[chronozphere]

Great! Thank you.

If I use it, I will probably refactor it so that it fits my object-oriented style of coding. I'm planning on releasing my engine under LGPL as soon as it's worth releasing.

[JernejL]

The main thing of intelligent source manager is to swap-in and swap-out sources while simulating as if the source was still playing during the time it wasn't in the active sources pool, you can easily reuse this logic from my code which is the most important part and use a object oriented design of your own. I plan to do the same and port this code out of the procedural world, but it simply isn't high on priority currently.