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Started by NPComplete Oct 27, 2000 at 11:14 PM 7 replies 600+ views

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Oct 27, 2000 at 11:14 PM

I need an easy way of adding in sounds to a demo. I have figured out how to put in how to put in one sound, like a background type of thing. But what i would like to do is put a background and then add anohter sound on top of it..like an effect of some sort. I did this with bass. Is there an easier sound system to use? I noticed in some of the demos from nehe, he uses music files with *.jam extensions..how does that work? But basically, i want to figure out an easy way to play a background sound, like an mp3, then play occasional wav''s on top of it... Hey nehe, how bout doing a sound tutorial?

-NPC

richardve

Oct 28, 2000 at 12:27 AM

JAM == MP3 (try renaming the file and play it)

I don''t think it gets easier to play sounds because Bass is one of the easiest libs out there.
But you can try Fmod?

(also free for non-commercial use)

Oct 28, 2000 at 1:47 AM

Were could I find the ''Bass''? (is it completely free??)
I think ''Fmod'' is a great think...
but I want to develop a shareware game and haven''t $200.00 US I could pay.

Does anybody know other stuff like ''Bass'' and ''Fmod''? (for Midi playback and so on)

DrKappa

Oct 28, 2000 at 5:00 AM

If you''re talking about a demo, I suggest you to go for A3D 3.0 from Aureal. It has a lot of features and it proved to be highly compatible with any board (I''ve seen a 3d positional app with polygons occluding sound waves running on a SB 16 ISA!).

Furthermore it has some convenience functions for loading wavs and mp3s (LoadMp3( char *FileName ); ). Altough it is designed for real 3d positioned sound, 2d performs well, and the only payoff is to include 2 dlls in the exe directory.

It has a quite good documentation, and there are several samples included in the sdk. A basic implementation should take you no more than a couple of hrs. Then, since you''re working on a demo, the sfx/gfx sync will be ensured because you can make a3d call an event once a custom-specified point in the sample being played is reached.

You can take a look at developer.a3d.com or www.aureal.com, if they''re still online.... =(

richardve

Oct 28, 2000 at 8:39 AM

quote:
Original post by CO

Were could I find the 'Bass'? (is it completely free??)
I think 'Fmod' is a great think...
but I want to develop a shareware game and haven't $200.00 US I could pay.

Does anybody know other stuff like 'Bass' and 'Fmod'? (for Midi playback and so on)

Bass sound system ($100 for shareware, free for non-commercial use)

You'd better stay with MP3/Modules (mod, it, xm, etc) because not everybody has a UltaSoundBlaster Platinum Live... (shitty soundcard == shitty MIDI);

[ EDIT ] Hehe, do you see that semicolon? ";" :D[ /EDIT ]

Edited by - richardve on October 28, 2000 9:42:52 AM

The Rainmaker

Oct 28, 2000 at 2:04 PM

There is no easy way to do sound like that. I think you need to use direct sound or something similar to get what you need. Don''t worry, DirectSound is easy! Grab a book on it(Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus). You will end up using it plenty.

L8r,
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Oct 29, 2000 at 2:02 AM

Thank''s for the replies...

Does nobody kowns a absolutely free Sound/Music packages?

At the moment I use DirectSound for the sounds and some Windows functions
for the midi playback. (I haven''t the newest DirectX SDK and that I couldn''t use the midi functions of DirectSound...)

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zedzeek

Oct 29, 2000 at 3:32 AM

openal but i dont think that it supports midi yet

http://members.xoom.com/myBollux

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