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The Ultraviolet Framework is a .NET game development framework written in C#.
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FMOD support #137

Closed vfrz closed 3 years ago

vfrz commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I've tried to install the FMOD audio plugin nuget but I can't find the main plugin class (FMODAudioPlugin). And the nuget package is marked as deprecated. Is FMOD still supported? If not why? And may I propose to update it to v2?

FMOD is now free for commercial use if your revenue is <200k but BASS is not free.

Thanks for your work.

tlgkccampbell commented 3 years ago

The FMOD audio implementation was always kind of an experiment, one which I eventually did away with when I realized that the license terms didn't allow me to distribute fmod.dll alongside Ultraviolet. That remains true as far as I'm aware, but given the recent pricing changes, I agree that I should probably revisit this in the near future.

Longer term, I want to look into an implementation based on OpenAL Soft, which has no cost. If I can make that work on all supported platforms, it will probably replace BASS as the default implementation.

tlgkccampbell commented 3 years ago

I've pushed a new release to NuGet which includes the Ultraviolet.FMOD package, and I've made sure the package is no longer marked as deprecated. You should be able to find FMODAudioPlugin there. Please remember that, for licensing reasons, you'll need to provide your own copy of fmod.dll or libfmod.so in the appropriate directory.

vfrz commented 3 years ago

The FMOD audio implementation was always kind of an experiment, one which I eventually did away with when I realized that the license terms didn't allow me to distribute fmod.dll alongside Ultraviolet. That remains true as far as I'm aware, but given the recent pricing changes, I agree that I should probably revisit this in the near future.

Longer term, I want to look into an implementation based on OpenAL Soft, which has no cost. If I can make that work on all supported platforms, it will probably replace BASS as the default implementation.

I understand. I can't find recent information about redistribution of the fmod .dll/.so OpenAL could be convenient but I actually had a really hard time using it a few time ago, good luck with that!

I've pushed a new release to NuGet which includes the Ultraviolet.FMOD package, and I've made sure the package is no longer marked as deprecated. You should be able to find FMODAudioPlugin there. Please remember that, for licensing reasons, you'll need to provide your own copy of fmod.dll or libfmod.so in the appropriate directory.

Thanks for this.