Hi Tom.
just one quick question.
If you use 3D sound only, will the game stil be playable with headphones?
i have a very good set of 5.1 logitech speakers, however even for the first
person audio games we have, I always prefer playing on headphones simply
because I've found that I simply cannot get the same precision in
positioning audio when using speakers, and for fine tasks such as targiting
weapons, determining direction of multiple sound sources and the like I
would find speakers far harder to play on however good the game audio was.
i hope therefore if the 3D engine used 5.1 we could stil use headphones.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games News
Hi Charles,
Yeah, it is, but for some reason 2d stereo panning isn't widely
supported with audio APIs any more. Which means I have to go back to
DirectSound for that 2d stereo panning that people want, because
OpenAL and other audio APIs simply do not have that functionality.
Now, for the 3d version of Mysteries of the Ancients it would be
something of a different story. I could use OpenAL which has virtual
3d audio, 5.1 surround sound, etc which is exactly what I want for a
3d FPS game. Which is what OpenAL was designed to do. So perhaps, just
perhaps, when I look at releasing the 3d version I might be able to
build it using the cross-platform engine as panning won't be a major
factor there. the only issue I can think of is getting joysticks and
mice working with SDL. So I'm thinking that cross-platform could be
possible provided we don't need 2d stereo panning but just 5.1
surround sound which OpenAL does very well, and OpenAL is the default
audio library on Mac OS and Linux, and their are versions available
for Windows as well.
On 6/17/11, Charles Rivard <woofer...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Maybe this decision to put out a twentieth beta of MOTA for Windows is
the
way to go, but I hate to hear that the cross platforming is temporarily
shelved, even though I am a Windows user, because I know that's not at
all
what you want to do. Wile it might be a business decision, I still think
it
is a bummer.
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