Sound

Presented to you by Erwin Herrsche?

Sound uses the ​OpenAL library.

All good things come in threes. Here is now the third version of the sound subsystem.

Classes

SoundManager: ← Tickable

• manages the OpenAL device and context
• manages the listener position
• updates all registred sounds every tick

SoundBase:

• base class for all sounds
• manages OpenAL buffer and source
• has to be attached to a WorldEntity
• can load a sound sample form a file (via alut, all alut supportet sound formats)

Timetable

Date	What?
2009-03-30	Initial code commit, defitiv decision of API (done)
2009-04-06	Implementing SoundManager and integration into the build system (done)
2009-04-27	Implementing SoundBase (done)
2009-05-04	Adding default sounds, configuration loaders (done for levels)
2009-05-11	Testing
2009-05-18	Testing and getting things ready for presentation
2009-05-2?	Presentation

Future

• make error checking better
• prepare for multiple level loading (mostly patches on SoundManager)
• implement sound device configuration
• implment a fallback ogg loader
• clean up/add version numbers to cmake files