HI Dark and all, All you will need for MOTA 3D is a stereo set of headphones. This is for too reasons. First, as we have discussed on list most people simply don't have the hardware required to render true 5.1 or 7.1 3d audio so making that a manditory requirement will hurt sales if the potential customer doesn't have the necessary hardware. Second, is PB Streemway, while a nice API, currently doesn't have good 5.1 surround sound support anyway. It was mmainly designed for 2d stereo panning and volume. Although, the API does wrap DirectSound's 3d audio I've found DirectSound 8 and Windows 7 don't work correctly together. For true 5.1 surround sound support on Windows 7 a developer really should use XAudio2 which Streemway, at least the version I have, doesn't support yet.So in the end I decided MOTA 3D 1.0 will simply use a stereo audio environment using my own custom 3d calculations to fake a 3d audio environment.
Cheers! On 4/2/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Muhammed. > > Actually the game will be playable with headphones, ---- at least I very > much hope it will sinse even though I do have a set of 5.1 speakers, I stil! > prefer to play on headphones and in fact play very badly with speakers. > > But, as shades and other games have shown, you can do a lot with virtual 3D > in sterrio, particularly if you've got a good set of headphones. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
