EAX still supported?

Posted By: Reconnoiter

EAX still supported? - 01/12/17 14:32

Hi,

I noticed that gs3d has environmental sound effects (EAX, from OpenAl) so I tried the given example on a windows 10 laptop, and while it doesn't give an error or such the sound just sounds normal (tried several sound reverb effects). Than I read that EAX is not supported anymore on new sound cards (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/question...nd-enhancements). Is this true, and if so is there an alternative way to add environmental sound effects in gs3d?

Code:

SOUND* sound = snd_createoal("Data\spell.wav");
		if (sound == NULL) error("sound not found");  
	        var h = ent_playloop(my,sound,200);  
		var env = eax_create();        // create a reverb effect  
		eax_set(env, FX_HANGAR); // set up reverb parameters  
		eax_attach(env,h);

Posted By: 3run

Re: EAX still supported? - 01/12/17 16:28

Alternative is HeelX FMOD wrapper, could be found around on this forum, if all links will be dead, PM me. I couldn't play any EAX sounds... Even the one from samples folder gave me a error (sound file didn't seems to be loaded or such).

Greets!

Posted By: Reconnoiter

Re: EAX still supported? - 01/12/17 18:50

Hey, the link is dead it seems and you are over your pm limit.

Also I should get the fmod.dll to right? Is that a plugin or within FMOD Studio? ( http://www.fmod.org/download/#StudioExtras )

Posted By: 3run

Re: EAX still supported? - 01/12/17 18:57

Originally Posted By: Reconnoiter

Hey, the link is dead it seems and you are over your pm limit.

We already do have that one conversation, why starting another one?

Making a PM there for you.

Originally Posted By: Reconnoiter

Also I should get the fmod.dll to right? Is that a plugin or within FMOD Studio? ( http://www.fmod.org/download/#StudioExtras )

Nope. I remember I faced some troubles with it back at the time.. It requiers the older one to be working correctly (as far as I remember), any way you don't need to download anything additionally, I'll send you everything you need!

Greets!

Posted By: Reconnoiter

Re: EAX still supported? - 01/12/17 19:52

Yeah that's true, anyway now others can atleast spam your pm box again.

Posted By: Kartoffel

Re: EAX still supported? - 01/13/17 13:30

I just wanna add that if you decide to use fmod you should keep in mind that it's gonna be somewhat expensive (if you're aiming to release anything that's not free).