Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound positioning and orientation

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

On 21 Aug 2008, at 15:31, Erik Hofman wrote:

> This is now committed for the SGSoundMgr code, it has been moved tot  
> FGFX.

Just in case you care, my longer term plan for the sound code was to  
create an SGSoundSource (in the simgear code), which would basically  
be a wrapper around an OpenAL source. This could then be hung off an  
AIModel, and potentially, we could add a new kind of multiplayer  
message to trigger a sound remotely.

something like (incomplete!):

class SGSoundSource
{
public:
	void setVelocity(SGVec3d)
	void setOrientation(SGQuatd)

	void setPosition(); // either cart or geod, whichever makes more sense

	void playOnce(... sound id ...., ampltidue  ....);
	void playLooped( .... same as above ...., loopCount or -1);
}

That's me guessing wildly, but feels about right - and very easy to  
hook into the AI / MP code. Probably want a Nasal interface for it as  
well.

Quite far down my current ToDo list, though.

James