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what is the dev status of sound? will we be looking at sound in the game anywhere in the near future?

There's a fork that has audio support. I don't know anything else about it, I found it on the patchsets page.

WHY IT NOT IN MAINSTREAM??!?!!!

seems to be abandoned and not updated since lava came aboard

Working on it. I'm on holidays now so I can work on it and I hope I'll finish it these following days.
I fixed the whole system to make it easier and I just have to code sound instantiations.

Also, I'm gonna put it on my github soon and then I will leave a message here.

:D :D :D

cisoun wrote:Working on it. I'm on holidays now so I can work on it and I hope I'll finish it these following days.
I fixed the whole system to make it easier and I just have to code sound instantiations.

Also, I'm gonna put it on my github soon and then I will leave a message here.

Is a LUA API will be available for sound?

you can implement sound using lua to the best of my knowledge yet dont ask me how

....the wait is killing me, haha have been looking forward to sound in minetest for a long time, don't suppose you have any update on progress cisoun? ^_^

I have to implement some threads now but you can already play an OGG files. I'm still working on sound sources and have to test some stuffs.
I also found some interesting stuff on the OpenAL lib so I'm trying to studying them. Stay tuned. :)

Yay
O O
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cisoun wrote:I have to implement some threads now but you can already play an OGG files. I'm still working on sound sources and have to test some stuffs.
I also found some interesting stuff on the OpenAL lib so I'm trying to studying them. Stay tuned. :)

yay :)

cisoun wrote:I have to implement some threads now but you can already play an OGG files. I'm still working on sound sources and have to test some stuffs.
I also found some interesting stuff on the OpenAL lib so I'm trying to studying them. Stay tuned. :)

^_^ Excellent news cant wait :D

Gimmi a S! S! Gimmi a O! O! Gimmi a U! U! Gimmi an N! N! Gimmi a D! D! What's that spell? SOUND!

Well , great job cisoun . But I will not shout VICTORY , I'll wait until the sound system will be fully implemented !

what about now? lol

jordan4ibanez wrote:what about now? lol

lol I think I speak for most people when I say we can't wait any longer for sound in Minetest ^_^

also @Cisoun I'm not sure how your integrating sound but did you have a look at Irrklang? (http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/) its a high level 3D audio engine, I was speaking to my friend who has used Irrklang with a lot of his Irrlicht & non-Irrlicht projects and he said it was one of the nicest free audio engines he had worked with, might be worth checking out.

why wasnt irrklang used in the firstplace? irkklang is the native sound engine for irrlicht

I agree that irrklang looks nice technically, but it's neither open source nor may we use it in a GPL program, which Minetest is (the free-of-charge version may not be used in commercial products, but Minetest may be used commercially and the GPL doesn't allow further restrictions; correct me if I'm wrong here).

I want to say one thing :

If you can't wait for sound system to be implemented , just do it by yourself !

I think sound implementation is one of the most hard thing to do actually . Because this is not just about play sound files . Everything needs sounds , blocks , player , monster , music , ambiance ... And , in my opinion , create script to do that is very long .

For my part I've chosen to compose musics and create sounds because I hate everything that's approaching to far from near the coding and script , its remember me the mathematics syntax . So , in my point , I cannot force someone to do something I will never do or I can't do by my self , and I cannot judge the times it take to create sound system . I hate scripting , but I'm really impressed of the guys who script and code , because its a pain for me , and I am really thankful to these people for their work !

It's better to release a finished sound-system than some sound played partially I think .

Be patient !

I've just been having a play around with the sound branch with Dogers sounds and its amazing! ^_^ no longer am I forced to play in silence :D

There is one suggestion though I think the walking sounds need to be randomised with several files i.e. 2/4x files for walking on each material (or not even 4 but at least more than one otherwise it does get a bit annoying when walking on grass for example with the same sound being played constant) I think Dogers included more than one sound for each surface actually not sure.

From what I can remember this is how MC does it by looping through several sound files for each surface.

Other than that its amazing! ^_^

this was being thought up on irc, two days ago.

\o/

wut?

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dannydark wrote:I've just been having a play around with the sound

Well , first of all , thanks for having appreciate the sounds and music , but get in mind that I have not created all the SFX , walking sounds are from kddekadenz , I've just created all of the music , ambient hit , most of the ambient-looped sounds and some GUI sounds . All the rest is the work of kddekadenz .
In my opinion , we need to wait for the sound-system to be implemented , then we will how it render in game and let the people judge for themselves , thus if some sound need to be arranged , added or replaced then we will do it !

I coded an audio system here: https://github.com/cisoun/minetest

For the moment I didn't implemented it in the game but I know it works (I made some tests). It's just I didn't realised that sounds have to be hosted on the server and I don't feel to code the audio transfer so I gave up for the moment.
Also, I've got some exams soon and I don't really have the time to do this but I'll see the next month if I can do something for.

don't push ya self man just do everythin slow and keep it astounding as dreamable

sdzen wrote:don't push ya self man just do everythin slow and keep it astounding as dreamable

* demon appears at the left ear * WORK! WORK! Work harder, it must be finished tomorrow!!!

Exactly what happens when I try to relax