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OpenAL #1044

Closed kickback999 closed 11 years ago

kickback999 commented 11 years ago

Is there an ETA for completetion of all functionality in the new OpenAL sound system?

alfred-valve commented 11 years ago

We are using SDL for sound output, but otherwise I am not sure what you are asking for here.

kickback999 commented 11 years ago

Well as far as I heave been able to determine from reading reports on here and the forums there is not yet any working surround sound (although I have seen some indication that it has been implemented), however I can not test for myself at present as I need to get the soldering iron out or buy new 5.1 headphones.

thegreatprophetzarquon commented 11 years ago

I believe many people (including me) want the EAX/A3D sound system (Positional sounds) to be reimplemented at some point with OpenAL. This would allow for much better sound output now that A3D/EAX has been removed (I understand the reasoning, but I think this feature should be kept or replaced with an equivalent.) The new, unofficial Thief 2 patch actually did this to great effect. I think this report acts as a dupe of https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/38

alfred-valve commented 11 years ago

Oohhh, EAX support, yup, dupe :)