now, it would be nice if they enabled the sound playing calls to automatically recognize mp3 instead of just wav, so you could specify a mono mp3 and play it with the standard EMIT_SOUND / PlaySound calls on the client.
*nudge* valve *nudge* ;)
-omega --
a standar way to do that, is to acept foo.mp3 instead of foo.wav, problem is.. decompress will waster resources, Why save HD space and waste CPU cycles?.
other way is this:
you reproduce boo.wav the system detect this files:
boo.wav boo.mp3 boo.ogg
and play boo.ogg because is the "superior" file format for a audio sound
This is similar to that:
The core try to open a graphics with name doo.pcx the system found this other files:
doo.pcx doo.tga doo.jpg doo.dta
Then the system will open the dta version because is much usefull for the render.
Why this other option is better? - Engine choice whatever he like/he can open - No need to change anithing at mods - Work like plug-and-play (the user drop in some files, and the engine core will get whatever he like) magic for users - Backward compatible
Why not? - Cheats? - More fopens? - Complex loadimagepixels? - ...
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